Axis Dance Explores New Frontiers With Mobility Technology

Axis Dance Explores New Frontiers With Mobility Technology

What are crutches for? To help an injured or disabled person get from Point A to Point B? Like most mobility devices, crutches are often designed and viewed in a matter-of-fact medical framework. There is a problem to be fixed; the device is the solution. Performances by Axis Dance Company …

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The Magic of Ballet Captured by a Master’s Camera

The Magic of Ballet Captured by a Master’s Camera

Only 500 copies of Alexey Brodovitch’s “Ballet” were printed when it was published in 1945, yet this modest artist’s book would come to have a seismic influence on the course of photography. Like the rarest works in the genre — “The Americans” by Robert Frank (1958) or “Evidence” by Mike …

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A Disruptor Asks, Is New York Finally Ready for ‘DOOM’?

A Disruptor Asks, Is New York Finally Ready for ‘DOOM’?

Barking Doberman pinchers behind chain link fencing and performers who looked like they came straight from the Berlin club scene made the ultracool German performance artist Anne Imhof infamous. But last week, at her first rehearsal for “DOOM: House of Hope” at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, there were …

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An Oakland Dance Troupe Brings Vertical Choreography to Broadway

An Oakland Dance Troupe Brings Vertical Choreography to Broadway

In 1990, Amelia Rudolph was hiking through Tuolumne Meadows, a stunning mountain pass in Yosemite National Park, when she had an epiphany on a shiny granite bluff: “Could you make a performance here?” she wondered. “Could you dance on a cliff?” Rudolph, a dancer in the Bay Area who trained …

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