Summer Delight
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by Deborah Jowitt
1y ago
The longer you live, the older you get. Hmm. This not-exactly-apocalyptic statement refers  (obliquely) to recollection. When I attended Jacob’s Pillow’s 90th Anniversary Gala last week, memories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more ..read more
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Dancing Through The Century
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by Deborah Jowitt
2y ago
by Deborah Jowitt I’m sitting at a table miles from New York City staring at a small, yellow, lined piece of paper and hoping I can decipher my scribbles racing across it. The task? Martialling my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more ..read more
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Casting a Net for Dance
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by Deborah Jowitt
2y ago
What is Indra’s Net?  To begin with, it’s the name of Meredith Monk’s newest work. Yes, but what is it?  In Buddhism, it alludes to the interconnectedness of everything in the universe and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more ..read more
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High Fliers
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by Deborah Jowitt
2y ago
Time moves crankily during this pandemic. September is nearly over, and I’ve just watched on my laptop a video of a performance by Elizabeth Streb’s “live action heroes” that took place at Jacob’s Pillow more than a week ago. I’ve had to compare my notes with another slightly conflicting program list. I thought writing about ..read more
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Dancing on the Green
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by Deborah Jowitt
2y ago
“Ooh that feels so good!” The speaker was not involved in a semi-pornographic film. She was a teenager watching a filmed pas de deux at a summer dance festival years ago. Others shushed her; this was art! Indoctrinated, did they even notice that the male dancer, hoisting his partner overhead, had placed one hand on ..read more
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Horses and Humans Together
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by Deborah Jowitt
2y ago
When I was about eleven years old, my family moved into a house on a Southern California palisade overlooking a country club that included a golf course, stables, a polo field, and a stadium.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more ..read more
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Dancing the Flu Away
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by Deborah Jowitt
3y ago
Emily Pope in Tamar Rogoff’s A Plague on All Our Houses. Photo courtesy of Natalia Ferrara Here I go, repeating myself again: Dancers can’t not dance. Their bodies—their instruments—need to be kept in shape. Strategies emerge. Must they practice battements by lifting their legs between their refrigerator and their tv set? Even though the pandemic wanes, if they’re close to colleagues, do they need to be masked?   Sometimes, a simple iPhone on a stand documents their progress, but more often choreographers develop new skills and new approaches. Tamar Rogoff’s A Plague o ..read more
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Red on Green
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by Deborah Jowitt
3y ago
Beth Soll (L) and Abby Dias perform Soll’s Two Red Solos: A Formal Response. Photo: Ethan Mass Let’s hear it for dancers! They can’t not dance. And they all have i-phones or the equivalent—and maybe obliging friends to operate these. However, I confess that after a while of sitting at my laptop watching, say, six performers dancing in their bedrooms, I can get too interested in the sites themselves. A lot of books!  What pictures hang on their walls? Dig that cookstove. But what if they’re outdoors on uneven ground, maybe even barefoot?  A public park becomes their stage—maybe early ..read more
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Four by Morris
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by Deborah Jowitt
3y ago
Brandon Rudolph in Mark Morris’s Jealousy. Courtesy of the Mark Morris Dance Center I’ve seen Mark Morris’s work for many years, starting in 1980. I remember him dancing half naked with a mane of black curls in his 1984 O Rangsayee.  I interviewed him in Brussels, when he and his company had taken over the Théâtre de la Monnaie (1988 to 1991).A few years ago, I watched him rehearse his dancers in one of the seven studios in the Mark Morris Dance Center, built on a corner in Brooklyn. I saw some of his operas and his ballets, as well as his contemporary dance works. I missed his ..read more
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Alone Together
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by Deborah Jowitt
3y ago
KJ Takahashi and Jonathan Fahoury watch India Bradley and Sebastian Villarini-Velez in Kyle Abraham’s When We Fell. Film still: Ryan Marie Helfant I have never been in Philip Johnson’s immense second-floor lobby in the New York State Theater when it was empty of audience members. I’m not familiar with the grids marked on its floor. Before the pandemic, it was a place where friends and colleagues chatted, compared notes, and maybe bought drinks during intermissions of the New York City Ballet’s performances. (I usually remembered not to leave empty glasses on the pediment of one of Elie Nadelma ..read more
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