In review: "the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds"

Cast of the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds
(photo: Ian Douglas)

Read reviews of the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds, an evening of site-specific improvisation curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, part of Danspace Project's Lost and Found platform at St. Mark's Church, Saturday, October 22, 2016.

Click to read:

Maura Donohue, Culturebot

Alexis Clements, Hyperallergic

Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, The Dance Enthusiast

Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

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Maura Donohue and Adam Cuthbért at Roulette

This is Maura Donohue.
Don't mess with her: She makes dances.
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Donohue and her inmixedcompany, with composer Adam Cuthbért,
presented a new work--zero...sixty--at Roulette last night.
If you're reading that title and thinking "acceleration," you're right.
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Roulette has a really nice blond wood floor
that Donohue says she loved at first sight.
You can tell by the way she has her dancers root themselves into it.
They dig in deep, plant themselves and then can do all kinds of things 
with their spines and limbs for balance and offbeat elegance.
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Donohue's sprites at play:
Timothy Edwards, center,
with Peggy Cheng at left; Reyes at right
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

They are about claiming every millimeter of space.
Roulette is theirs!
They draw power from their grounding 
and move freely within Cuthbért's thicket of music.
The sonic and physical energies are tremendous.
 Above: Donohue 
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Gilberto Reyes (left) 
with David Capps in background
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

The audience gets to play along, too,
rolling in a continuous circle
that contains and generates energy for
Reyes and Cheng (in center).
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Edwards in center
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

inmixedcompany in action 
(c)2013, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

zero...sixty

dancing by Maura Donohue, David Capps, Peggy Cheng, Timothy Edwards and Gilbert Reyes

music composed by Adam Cuthbért and played live by Cuthbért, (trumpet/laptop), David Broome (piano) and Joe Tucker (percussion
)

video by David Gonville/Nami Studios

For programs and upcoming events at Roulette, click here.

What's moving downtown, moving the Bronx

Look sharp!

There's dance moving all over town... 

La MaMa Moves Dance Festival

Chamber Works 1--featuring Dark Matter by Juliette Mapp; present.tense (progressive) by Maura Donohue; and So be it--not a piece--miniatures for five by Vicky Shick. May 11-13. La MaMa’s The Club, 74A East 4th Street, 2nd Floor.[information and tickets]

Beauty--Jane Comfort and Company. "...a gimlet-eyed look at the extremes women go to achieve impossible beauty." May 17-20, 7:30pm La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor. [information and tickets]

La MaMa
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Dancing While Black: Voices from the Bush
a presentation of BAAD!'s 2012 Boogie Down Dance Series

Thursday, May 17, 8pm

Featuring current and former dancers from Urban Bush Women--Maria Bauman, LoveForte (Marjani Forte and Nia Love), Paloma McGregor and Samantha Speis--who present their own brazen dance works as part of Dancing While Black, "an artist-led project/initiative that explores many questions including what does it mean to be a Black artist today in order to shift the power of contextualizing work and articulating aesthetic values into the hands, and bodies, of black dancers themselves."

For more information on this and all Boogie Down festival events and to purchase tickets, click here or call 718-842-5223.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
841 Barretto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx
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