A must-see – MARTHA at the Met – ART FOR THE MILLIONS opens Thursday, September 7th

by Neil | Sep 6, 2023 | Uncategorized

“That girl, who was myself, is seeing a great landscape — untrammeled,” Martha Graham said of Frontier: American Perspective of the Plains (1935), her first collaboration with Isamu Noguchi, now gloriously and ecstatically on view at the welcoming...

In the rehearsal studio with choreographer extraordinaire Kristilee Maiella and the KM Dance Collective

by Neil | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

August 30, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m. – Such a prideful afternoon at the Dance Academy of North Jersey in Lake Hopatcong, bearing witness to my brilliant former danceaturgy student, Kristilee Maiella (Montclair State University BFA Dance, 2020), winner of the NJPAC New...

A glorious Saturday afternoon “Pillow Talk” in Blake’s Barn

by Neil | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized

What an honor and a pleasure to spend a wonderful hour on August 19th talking with Jacob’s Pillow scholar-in-residence Maura Keefe about Martha Graham – When Dance Became Modern before a blessedly attentive capacity audience — and then to sign (many)...

LAMENTATION selected by Wendy Perron for “iconic short solos”

by Neil | Jun 28, 2023 | Uncategorized

Go here to see all of Wendy’s intriguing choices.

The richnesses of dance – Lincoln Center Plaza at the advent of summer ’23

by Neil | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized

Wendy Perron (right) and I had just emerged into the mid-day sun after an utterly invigorating two hours’ tour of the new Border Crossings exhibition in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, when who should we run into but show-biz and dance...