Read a full review Will Tuckett's portrait of Queen Elizabeth I was a burnished period piece, layering dance, text and music to intelligent and touching effect.
Do not be put off by the pole room in the back; customers, fully clothed in winter's many layers, dance here, mostly to be ironic.
If this were simply a concert that included dance layered with intricate projection design (by David Bengali) and a moody soundscape (by Bill Toles), it would make quite an atmospheric evening.
Kyle Abraham's new work, created in collaboration with his company, Abraham.In.Motion, opened Thursday at Danspace Project, and soggy shoes seemed a small price to pay for admission to this layered, carefully structured dance.
Malaprop's deeply layered meta-theatricality dances a step ahead of the audience, teasing and probing.
In the last couple of years, pop music has ascended in the form of sophisticated divas Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, whose 2018 headlining set was nearly two hours of euphoric pop and soul, blazing horns and dance moves, layered with culture and meaning.
A dance-video installation featuring live layered scores by Peter Whitehead, "Frame Dances" allows audiences to move throughout the space -- a fitting way to break in a new theater.
Yet the presence of the LeWitt film of the work, layered over the live dancing, and sometimes eclipsing it, makes "Dance" also about the past.
The clip still exists and you can see her rocking the definitive early-to-mid-80s B-boy look: big hair tied up at the back, layered sports wear and synchronised dance moves.
The show's choreography by Sonya Tayeh, known for her work on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," has also layered a spirited liveliness onto the music.
