By Cynthia Bond Perry | Jul 3, 2011
Picture a chorus. About 20 performers in black suits stand on bleachers at the bustling intersection of Peachtree and 15th streets. The air begins to churn with rhythmic, expressive motion. But these performers play no instruments and don’t utter a sound.
The performers will be the dance artists of gloATL, choreographer Lauri Stallings’ contemporary performance group, with selected participants from gloATL’s annual summer intensive workshop. The dynamic, movement-only take on a classical Greek chorus isn’t just the summer workshop’s culmination; it’s also a glimpse of “Maá,” gloATL’s evening-length collaboration with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Robert Spano and contemporary music ensemble Sonic ...
By Cynthia Bond Perry | Jun 30, 2011
The human psyche is layered with memories, experiences and personae. In “Layers,” Nicole Livieratos and her dance company Gardenhouse Dance show how these layers can decorate, define, protect or encumber us. We put them on and take them off. Like fabric, we fold and embroider them; like thread, we tie them into knots. Sometimes we seek to accumulate more, not realizing that old ones are still visibly attached.
The dance and performance art work, presented at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on June 29, combined choreography, text and design. It manipulated paper like memories and was overlaid with narrative reflections ...
By Cynthia Bond Perry | Jun 18, 2011
The way Lonnie Davis sees it, dancers seeking high-caliber professional work in Atlanta have limited options. There’s the ballet world and then there’s the commercial hip-hop industry, but very little financial support for styles that fall in between. Davis wants to change that. And now that he's been appointed co-artistic director of the Kansas City-based Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, he’ll have the opportunity.
If all goes as planned, he’ll co-direct the troupe with Artistic Director Mary Pat Henry, a dean at the University of Missouri-Kansas City conservatory, where Wylliams/Henry is the resident dance company. During the next couple of years, the troupe will ...
By Cynthia Bond Perry | Jun 7, 2011
Atlanta’s local contemporary dance troupes may not be as slickly packaged as the big-budget, one-night-only touring companies seen at the Rialto and the Ferst Center for the Arts. But for the avid dance fan, it’s gratifying to follow these local artists as they develop over time. Creativity appears to be on the upswing, partly due to the efforts of DanceATL, a support group for local dance founded about two years ago by CORE Communications Manager Claire Horn, arts advocate Keif Schleifer and Alyson Brock, development officer of Atlanta Ballet.
You might see their Dance Table at concerts, consult their online performance calendar ...
By Cynthia Bond Perry | May 21, 2011
Performances at 3 and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21.
Water, as the women of Zoetic Dance Ensemble tell us, is a natural resource, fundamental to our existence. It helps create and preserve life, cools, cleanses and heals. But if we try to harness it too tightly, this force of nature overwhelms, inundates and drags us down.
In "Catch & Release," a new site-specific work set in Centennial Olympic Park's Fountain of Rings, this all-female contemporary dance troupe showed that people’s relationship with this elemental resource is a lot like our relationships with one another. Survival depends on acceptance, finding balance between imposing tight ...
By Cynthia Bond Perry | May 14, 2011
Of the three works in Atlanta Ballet’s “Ignition: New Choreographic Voices,” one of them scored a hit with its audience.
Three dance-makers -- Amy Seiwert, Bennyroyce Royon and Gina Patterson -- presented world premieres for the ballet’s final production this season, which opened Friday evening on the Woodruff Arts Center’s intimate Alliance Stage. The show runs just this weekend, through Sunday, May 15.
Atlanta Ballet plans to offer a concert like this every spring, part of a new focus on nurturing the next generation of American choreographers and attracting younger ticket-buyers while building a repertory that’s distinctive to the company and ...
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