Email Author Linda Shapiro

2010 Stories by Linda Shapiro

• Tacita Dean Film Installation

  published December 15, 2010

  Choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage go together with the Walker Art Center like avant and garde. The duo, partners and artistic... More >>

• Dance Film Project

  published December 15, 2010

  Dance on film is kind of a double whammy: Choreographers create dances by organizing time, space, and focus, and then filmmakers re-organize it... More >>

• Who Made These Video Tapes?

  published December 8, 2010

  Laurie Van Wieren has been producing smart, funny, slyly subversive dance theater for 30 years. Now she's mounted a retrospective of her live and... More >>

• Twin Cities Dance Film Retrospective

  published December 8, 2010

  For the Twin Cities Dance Film Retrospective, dance films by local choreographers and filmmakers from the 1980s to the present exhibit a range of... More >>

• Continuously Rich: Dance Revolutions 2010

  published December 8, 2010

  Graduates from the University of Minnesota Dance Program provide a lifeline to local companies like Zenon and TU Dance. They have it all: guts,... More >>

• Ballet of the Dolls: Cinderfella

  published December 1, 2010

  Myron Johnson's "Cinderfella" takes its inspiration from the 1960 Jerry Lewis film, offering a new twist on that old "someday my prince will come"... More >>

• Paul Taylor Dance Company

  published November 24, 2010

  For more than half a century, choreographer Paul Taylor has been creating dances that range from lyrical paeans, to the fluid dynamics of bodies... More >>

• The Thank-You Bar

  published November 17, 2010

  The first Minnesota artist to be presented in the Northrop Dance Series in more than two decades, Emily Johnson brings a witty and heartfelt... More >>

• Zenon Dance Company: Women Choreographers of the Americas

  published November 17, 2010

  The women rule in Zenon's 28th season, which features works by choreographers Andrea Miller and Colleen Thomas from New York, and Susana Tambutti... More >>

• Lionel Popkin: There Is an Elephant in This Dance

  published November 10, 2010

  Choreographer Lionel Popkin's obsession with the Hindu elephant god Ganesh is complicated. Popkin explores the iconography of Ganesh, as well as... More >>

• Eiko & Koma: Naked

  published October 27, 2010

  Movement artists Eiko and Koma will create a dance/visual art installation in one of the Walker galleries daily for their month-long residency.... More >>

• BLM/Seifert/Flink CREATE: The Woyzeck Project*

  published October 13, 2010

  Loosely based on George Büchner's 19th-century play, Woyzeck, this multi-tiered event takes place throughout the Southern Theater,... More >>

• Urban Bush Women: Zollar: Uncensored

  published October 13, 2010

  Urban Bush Women burst upon the scene in the 1980s, a group of fierce and funny women of color who told it like it was. In this retrospective,... More >>

• Ballet of the Dolls: Whatever Happened to…Swan Lake?

  published October 6, 2010

  Myron Johnson's wanton and witty Whatever Happened to...Swan Lake? might be the perfect prequel for Darren Aronofsky's upcoming ballet... More >>

• Metropolitan Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream

  published September 29, 2010

  This moving version of Shakespeare's comedy interweaves drama and dance in a sinuous flow of movement. Its mischievous fairies, exotic woodland... More >>

• American Ballet Theatre's ABT II

  published September 29, 2010

  The second company of American Ballet Theatre tackles a daunting and wide ranging repertory. There's the Rose Adagio from the 19th century classic... More >>

• ARENA Dances: not so good at standing still

  published September 29, 2010

  Founding a full-time dance company—as opposed to a pick-up part-time group—is a heroic act in these economic times. Choreographer... More >>

• How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

  published September 15, 2010

  Ralph Lemon is a native son who for the past decade or so has been producing multimedia works exploring his roots as an African American artist.... More >>

• Wave to the Wave

  published September 8, 2010

  A blast from the past in the form of a genuine 1960's happening, Forecast Public Art's "Wave to the Wave" event pays homage to artist Ned... More >>

• Choreographers in Accord: An Evening for Jeff

  published September 1, 2010

  Few people have served the dance community in so many crucial ways as Jeff Bartlett has over three decades: as a beloved lighting designer who... More >>

• Ananya Dance Theatre: Kshoy!/Decay!

  published September 1, 2010

  The powerful, culturally diverse women who make up Ananya Dance Theatre embody millions of persecuted women every time they take the stage.... More >>

• Jawaahir Dance Company: The Dark Nightingale

  published August 18, 2010

  Jawaahir performs a broad range of Middle Eastern dance, educating audiences on its origins and influences. The company also knows how to put on a... More >>

• Rhythmically Speaking: Principles of Pulse

  published August 11, 2010

  Rhythm rules in this eclectic evening of dance. Principles of Pulse presents various twists on classic jazz dance themes that are showing... More >>

• Eclectic Edge Ensemble: For Sport’s Sake

  published July 7, 2010

  This jazz-dance-based group presents works by Karis Sloss and local legend Zoe Sealy, whose new work "At the End of the Day" explores love and... More >>

• Heron/Hijack: smithsoniansmith (this is it)

  published June 16, 2010

  "We are dancing sculptures, builders, and architects," write Hijack (Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder) and Scott Heron in a thoroughly... More >>