Category Archives: Dance
Throwing stones in Glass houses
Ninety-six degrees out there and rising. If we didn’t have calendars, that number alone would tell us the festival is drawing to a close and throwing open the door to the dog days of summer. There’s just about 28 hours left in Spoleto Festival 2007 – which means it’s not over yet for this Spoleto [...]
So two comedians walk into a ballet studio…
My 90 minutes with Philip Glass’ Book of Longing is now already almost 27 hours past, and on top of that I have to distill some thoughts on today’s final Music in Time concert and this evening’s encounter with the extraordinary (get a ticket now at any cost) Aurelia’s Oratorio. But first, a word on [...]
Of fathers, sons, and magic clowns
Yesterday afternoon, 3pm-ish found this Spoleto Buzz blogger in a mostly full Theatre 99, taking in Andrew Connor and Mike Mathieu’s quadruple threat – singing, dancing, acting, and improvising – for their mostly scripted comedy act known as The Cody Rivers Show. “Singular” is probably too mild a description for what these two Ohio Wesleyan [...]
A little mud never hurt anyone
“I’m from Asheville, which people say is kind of a hippy, hikey, granola-y, feminist, patchouli-smelling kind of place, where people have drum circles and probably trip on acid, too.” So joked chanteuse Christine Kane at Charleston Ballet Theatre on Sunday by way of introduction. Kane was performing a set of folksy music that was [...]
This Wei and that Wei
Despite gale-force winds, sideways rain, and the very real threat of becoming an impromptu flying projectile, I ventured out to see Shen Wei Dance Arts’ “Connect Transfer” at the Gaillard Saturday night. Outside, there was a chaos of thunder and lightening; inside, Shen Wei and his dancers delivered an work of abstract, sublime beauty that [...]
CBT brings Angel Oak gig home
Second rain casualty: Charleston Ballet Theatre’s two performances with chanteuse Christine Kain that were to have taken place at Angel Oak on John’s Island this afternoon have been rescheduled for tomorrow at 1:30pm and 4pm at the dance company’s studio at 477 King St. Choreographer Jill Bahr says the company will be honoring all [...]
But wait, there’s more!
With the openings of Shen Wei Dance Arts and Major Bang in the rear-view mirror (I caught only the latter of those two last night; I’ll see Shen Wei tomorrow night), the Big Festival is plowing through its slate of yet-to-be-seen productions and turning them into continuing-through productions. On tonight’s docket: the opening of medEia, [...]
Buzzcast #8: Shen Wei
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with Shen Wei, the Chinese-born choreographer, painter, and filmmaker whose company Shen Wei Dance Arts returns to Charleston this season to perform his acclaimed dance work “Connect Transfer,” in which he and his dancers use their bodies as living paintbrushes, tracing patterns on a canvas floor. Trained [...]
The little festival that could
The Big Festival’s opening premieres monopolized most of this Spoleto Buzz blogger’s attention and energy over the Memorial Day weekend, but I’ve not forgotten that there’s an entirely separate festival going on in Charleston right now. If the dissonant warbling in Faustus, the Last Night or nigh on three hours of Marxian, Teutonic spectacle in [...]
Buzzcast #5: Cabaret Kiki
As promised, Buzzcast #5 (or six, frankly not sure):
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