From 10 September to 23 October, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California, theoldglobe.org (619-234-5623) If the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, then the performer, composer and playwright Taylor Mac, whose works are overstuffed with music, dance, ingenuity, verve and glitter eye shadow, should be counted a contemporary sage.
Both showed up for "Best of the Big Bands," the orchestra's speed tour through American dance-palace ingenuity at Rose Theater on Friday night.
Where's that dance floor?! Think I.N.C. - Ingenuity.
Yet ingenuity can triumph, for the dances of Nikolais and Mr. Cunningham, though invariably abstract, differ considerably in mood.
Throughout, Randy Skinner's dances are a wonder, affirming the boundless ingenuity of a resilient choreographer who had the same job in an inferior production of the same show in 1985 in Westchester, under the direction of Ginger Rogers.
Sexy is Captain Jack doing tales of great ingenuity and derring-do (like the peerless The Doctor Dances), with the occasional more-than-dance with a plucky young lad/lass.
It comes with a disc of radical remixes by the likes of Elbow, Lloyd Cole, Ulrich Schnauss and Adem, which nods to the way Roedelius's sonic ingenuity and love of repetition have influenced ambient, dance music and forward-thinking rock bands.
His soft-shoe and tap routines were widely copied by other dancers, but Robinson was probably unmatched for ingenuity in creating new steps, especially his famous "stair dance".
Stephen Medcalf's production perfectly teases out all the strands in this canvas of Russian life, managing the great chorus and dance scenes in the limited space of the Guildhall stage with great ingenuity.
However he noted the song's ingenuity which he credited to come from its simplicity and dance-music nature.
Another premiere, "Consume," came from Mr. Prescott, an ambitious, angular solo (well danced by Indre Vengris Rockefeller) to a spiky Ligeti cello sonata that eventually overpowered his choreographic ingenuity.
