ENTERTAINMENT
By Lewis Segal and Lewis Segal,LOS ANGELES TIMES | May 1, 2005
When Savion Glover isn't redefining the art of tap-dancing, he slips the most famous feet in show business into size 12 1/2 Jordans or boots. Filling that footwear would be a tall order for anyone else, because nobody in millennial dance so dominates any style or idiom as definitively as Glover dominates tap. At 31, he's the acknowledged master - the summation of tap's past, the torchbearer for its future - with no real rivals on the horizon, but plenty...
FEATURES
By J.L. Conklin and J.L. Conklin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | October 23, 1996
At first thought, the scheduling of the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Naval Academy's Alumni Hall this past weekend seemed an odd booking. But the four works presented by the full-bodied choreographer and his entourage of 14 dancers and small ensemble of musicians and singers proved that modern dance can be entertainment as well as serious art.Morris opened the evening with "Love Song Waltzes" accompanied by Johannes Brahms' "Liebesliederwalzer OP50."...
FEATURES
By J. L. Conklin and J. L. Conklin,Contributing Writer | October 12, 1992
The Towson Ensemble Dancers (TED), the dance collective at Towson State University, gave a remarkably solid program of works over the weekend at Stephens Hall Theatre. The seven dances created by TED members stood shoulder to shoulder with guest choreographer Marcus Schulkind's work, "Ladies Night Out.""Ladies Night Out" was a demanding piece that relied heavily on strong technique and the emotional range of its dancers. Three solos, expertly danced by Dana J. Martin, Nancy Wanich-Romida and Amanda Thom Woodson, peeled back Mr. Schulkind's classically attuned movements to expose the raw and angry psyche of the three women.
FEATURES
By Janice Conklin and Janice Conklin,Contributing Writer | June 29, 1993
The performance that was most fun to see last weekend during the fifth annual Columbia Festival of the Arts had to be Momix at Wilde Lake High School. This company of three women and two men is the brainchild of Pilobus' co-creator and hyper-creative personality Moses Pendleton.Momix is a company of illusionists. Each dancer stretches the limits of physicality -- whether by sheer strength, solid balance or amazing fluidity of movements. Company members Cynthia Quinn, Rebecca Stenn, Annie Way, Jim Cappelletti and Karl Baaumann seem more than human.
FEATURES
By Judith Green and Judith Green,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | September 23, 1997
Rhythm, a primal building-block of dance, linked the works of Eva Anderson Dancers' program this weekend at the Baltimore Museum of Art.The idea was laudable; the execution, if not quite up to the concept, at least good enough to see what the company can do.Now entering its 23rd season, Anderson's Columbia-based troupe has a modern-dance style blended with African-American music, themes and designs."
ENTERTAINMENT
By J. L. Conklin | June 28, 1991
The Columbia Festival of the Arts officially opened its 11-day affair last night with a performance from Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater.Opening the program of three dances was "The Stack Up," by Talley Batty. This street smart work for 17 dancers is as pumped-up as fancy foot gear. Mr. Talley's piece is populated with familiar urban characters -- "cool" dudes, street corner goof-offs, loose women and everyday people all in a whirring blend of dance styles. Indeed, each style characterizes the dancer's roles.