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Review: St. John Passion (March 17) |
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Written by D.S. Crafts
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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Santa Fe’s Pro Musica closed out its Bach Festival this past weekend with the crown jewel of the series, the St. John Passion. Forever in the shadow of its younger brother the expansive St. Matthew Passion, the St. John is a more manageable length, but nonetheless full of heart-rending music. It tells John’s version of the crucifixion story beginning with the arrest of Jesus.
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Dance Review: Evidence Dance Company, Journeys Africa (March 10) |
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Written by Jennifer Noyer
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
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Ron K. Brown’s Evidence Dance Company opened the Global Dancefest 2008 at the South Broadway Cultural Center Friday evening. This year’s Dancefest, “Journeys Africa,” explores human themes in contemporary dance evolving from the African diaspora. Brown’s choreography reveals both the traditional African roots of his contemporary American dance, yet fuses these roots with modern dance technique and Caribbean rhythms. He used music by Fred Hammond, Bob Marley, Me Shell Ndesgeocello, the Kronos Quartet and Duke Ellington.
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Dance Review: ROTAtion, UNM Dance Faculty Concert (March 10) |
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Written by Jennifer Noyer
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
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The University of New Mexico faculty dance concert at Rodey Theatre Saturday evening featured a revival of Hanya Holm’s 1975 work titled “Rota.” Holm created “Rota,”to George Crumb’s haunting music, Makrokosmos III, when she was 87 years old, but the poetic intensity and physical focus required of the dancers revealed Holm’s genius as fresh, compelling and new. The choreography works space like soft clay, weaving elegant scallops and circles within each other as the dancers evolve abstract relationships within those patterns.
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Review: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (March 10) |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
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Raving Richard (Spray), the engaging theater critic whose Radio Review is broadcast on KKIM, recently told his radio audience, “I can hardly wait for Barry Gaines’s review [of ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)’]—besides being a ‘Journal’ critic, he teaches Shakespeare at UNM, you know.” I must admit a certain amount of trepidation as I approached this production at Albuquerque Little Theatre, but I am glad to report (quoting Osric in “Hamlet”) it is “a hit, a very palpable hit!”
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Review: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel (March 3) |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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“The Oldest Profession” by Paula Vogel at The Desert Rose Playhouse is a play about five geriatric prostitutes who are trying to, excuse the expression, make ends meet in New York City. The ladies, who have been together in “The Life” for upwards of fifty years, speak fondly of their “gentlemen caller” clients, most of whom are octogenarians, and make jokes about erectile dysfunction and the performance of oral sex with or without dentures.
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About Reviewers D.S. Crafts (Website) Composer Daniel Steven Crafts came to New Mexico from San Francisco where he had hosted a classical music radio program on KPFA. His first commission from opera star Jerry Hadley, "The Song & the Slogan" based on texts by Carl Sandburg, was made into a TV program for the PBS network and aired nationally in 2004 and won an Emmy for Best Music. His latest opera La Llorona is a collaboration with novelist Rudolfo Anaya based on his play "The Season of La Llorona." Mr. Crafts is currently working on another commission from Jerry Hadley for a piece about the American Southwest which includes texts by Rudolfo Anaya and V.B. Price. Two CDs of his music, Contemporaries (short, satirical keyboard works) and ARIAS (excerpts from his various operas) have been released on the BACAT label in San Francisco.
David Steinberg David Steinberg has covered state government, the courts, city and county government in Santa Fe for the Albuquerque Journal. He's been an arts writer for the past 20 years, and serves as the book editor, for the Journal. Over the years, he's also acted in plays, sung in choruses and played trumpet.
Jennifer Noyer Jennifer Noyer has been writing dance reviews for the Albuquerque Journal for 17 years, as well as contributing articles for Dance Magazine and other art journals. She trained in dance with Hanya Holm in New York City and Colorado Springs, and studied several dance techniques at the graduate level at the University of Michigan. After teaching dance at Wayne State University she entered and completed a Masters Degree in Humanities there. In New Mexico Ms. Noyer has taught, directed, and choreographed contemporary dance for several years. Her writing on dance includes a monograph accompanying the video of choreographer Bill Evens’ ballet “The Legacy.” An overview of Evans’s world wide career, it was written and published during his tenure at the University of New Mexico. Ms. Noyer’s studies in the humanities, and her studio dance work influence her approach to dance as an integrative art form in the United States.
Barry Gaines Barry Gaines has taught Shakespeare in the University of New Mexico English Department for over twenty-five years and has received two outstanding teaching awards. He has written theater reviews for the Journal since 2000. He has attended theater all over the world including Shakespeare productions in Russia, South Africa, Denmark, and Poland. He has also served as literary advisor for two professional theater companies and written performance reviews for Shakespeare Quarterly. Gaines has taken two years of acting with Paul Ford and appeared in small parts in three plays at the Albuquerque Little Theater. He believes that he is probably a better reviewer than actor.
Joanne Sheehy Hoover Joanne Sheehy Hoover, music critic emeritus of the Albuquerque Journal, has written for NPR, PBS, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Symphony, among others. She has also been a music lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and a music critic and arts writer for The Washington Post. She was director of the Levine School of Music, one of the country’s largest community music schools, in Washington, D. C. 1980-1993. She and her husband moved to Corrales, New Mexico in July 1993. Also a poet, her fifth collection, “Einstein in New Mexico,” was published in 2002.
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