Results tagged “davidjustin”

Spank Dance Company and Refraction Arts are hosting a festival this month celebrating modern dance. Because most of you were probably out at that little music festival last weekend, you might have missed some seriously rockin’ dance performances during opening weekend. Don’t be sad, though, because there are two more weekends in September for you to get your contemporary dance on. Hot September Flurries is a massive collaborative event with involvement from Salvage Vanguard Theatre,...

When you spend nearly every weekend watching all forms of low-budget, pseudo-experimental performance in barely converted warehouses, you find yourself yearning for shows that are just a little more polished. So, when a new company sprouts up, featuring ballet allstars from around the country, and headed by both a nationally recognized choreographer and composer, your interest is piqued. Enter American Repertory Ensemble. The company’s first production, Dialogues, was part contemporary ballet, part classical music...

When your roster of artists includes dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre, musicians from the Tosca String Quartet, and two Artistic Directors that are already rising stars in their respective disciplines, your work has to meet some seriously high expectations. After seeing Dialogues, American Repertory Ensemble’s first performance event – a highly professional, intelligent, inventive and entertaining evening of music and dance – we think ARE lives...

Generally speaking, new dance companies in Austin are formed by a few friends with lofty goals and (roughly) $2.68 from their jobs at [granola coffee shop of your choice]. We’re fans of the grass roots, DIY Austin aesthetic, but we sometimes yearn for some highly polished, über-professional fare. American Repertory Ensemble, led by composer Rob Deemer and choreographer David Justin, may be just what we’ve been looking for. With a new vision for collaboration...

We are the Walrus. We are the Eggman. We are a shameless, self-promoting, self-interested no-goodnik with nothing but themselves at heart. We also have difficulty conjugating verbs while writing in the royal “we”. Why all the self-loathing? Because we've picked ourselves as the Austinist pick of the week! Even though Austin Lyric Opera is celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday by performing what is arguably the best opera ever written.... Even though Austin Shakespeare Festival, upon...

UT's student resident dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre is premiering new work by David Justin, Yacov Sharir, and MFA candidate Ray Eliot Schwartz this weekend in an evening entitled PROOF. Sharir is one of the co-founders of popular Austin dance company Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and Justin, now the Artistic Director of DRT, has danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet. Out of the "four short stories with lasting impact and truth"...