Erica Getto

Dancing on the Page

“How do I capture what happened—and what moved me—during a performance that most of my readers will never have a chance to see?”

The Company She Keeps

Molissa Fenley’s kinetic dances emerge from the tension between the lone artist and the collective: her group works resemble kaleidoscopic solos, while her solos feel like duets with a ghost.

Choreographed Uncertainty

Even the most rigorous viewing of a Trisha Brown dance will never quite reveal the springs and levers that hold it together.

‘Don’t Write on Here, Bad Girl’

Over sixty years, Yvonne Rainer has made an art of bringing a deadpan comic tone to strenuous scenes of bodily exertion, political struggle, emotional strain, and taxing thought.

‘A Delightful Flurry’: Dances to Bach

One of the joys of watching a Tanowitz performance is catching moments that seem unplanned: a gracious smile between dancers, a performer who stays airborne after her peers have landed, or a group huddle that falls to the left of a spotlight.

Dancing to the Rhythms of Robert Walser

Though HERZ SCHMERZ captures some of the more subtle pangs of delight and disappointment that underpin Robert Walser’s work, the performance resonates more as a homage to the writer than as a translation of his work.