Anouk van Dijk prepares for Melbourne post

Director makes her first move
by Philippa Hawker, theage.com.au, February 3, 2012

Chunky Move at BAM reviewed

My review of Chunky Move at BAM is available now on DanceMagazine.com.

Dance Magazine reviews: Cardona and more

My Dance Magazine review of Wally Cardona's Really Real at BAM Harvey Theater is now up here.

In coming months, Dance Magazine will feature my print or online reviews of works by the following choreographers:

Aszure Barton (Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, FL)

Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer (Baryshnikov Arts Center)

Tamar Rogoff (La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre)

Chunky Move (BAM Gilman Opera House)

Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba (BAM Gilman Opera House)

and, of course, I'll let you known when these are posted or printed. As always, thanks for your interest!

Dance of light and shadows

Last night, I attended the New York press/industry preview for Glow--a 2006 multimedia work by Melbourne, Australia's Chunky Move. Co-presented by The Kitchen (where it opens tonight, running for eight performances through Sunday) and The Joyce Theater, Glow was conceived and created by artistic director Gideon Obarzanek and Frieder Weiss, an interactive computer systems designer. The piece turns a large, white square on the floor into a backdrop for a limber soloist's gymnastic, often grotesque moves. Weiss's video tracking system becomes, in a sense, the dancer's rather aggressive partner, filling the square with rigorous patterns in gleaming white light and inky shadows that seem self-contained and alive. The whole thing runs only 30 minutes, and that's probably the right amount of time for a work that is more light show than innovative, idea-rich movement.

Performances are scheduled for tonight through Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:30pm as well as Sunday at 2pm and 3:30pm. For further information and tickets, call 212-255-5793 x 11 or click here.