dance: Noche Flamenca

“[T]he emotional quality of flamenco cannot be choreographed; it’s an intangible consequence of the dancers’ and musicians’ intense identification with their art in the moment of performance. And with the exception of the company’s star, Soledad Barrio, the dancers (Alejandro Granados, Alfonso Losa, Vanesa Coloma and Elena Martin) on Thursday night too often substituted an intensity of facial expression or gesture for the elusive real thing.”

“Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe,” New York Times

Image: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times

theater: East 14th

“It’s a situation hard to imagine — life with a father surrounded by drugs and prostitutes — but Mr. Reed, a graceful, genial performer, brings it to life, inhabiting a multitude of personalities: Jim, his strict, abusive stepfather; Tony, gay and handy with his fists in a brawl; Daryl, like his father an unrepentant manipulator of women; an array of prostitutes…”

Read the entire New York Times review here.