Since taking the reins in 1995, Sharon Gersten Luckman racked up a list of accomplishments that have made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater one of the city’s most solid, well-managed modern dance companies.
Whether fascinating or frustrating (or both), whether blasting through ordinariness or committing whole-heartedly to the mundane, each performance only fueled my appetite for another.
It takes a deep bench to pull "Onegin" off, and a lively corps shed opening-night nerves to navigate Cranko's elegant patterns with ever-increasing neatness and gusto.
Their bodies, formations, and arm placements are grounded in the concept of encircling, moving seamlessly around and about the space, creating a visual ebb and flow.
Pilot 58: ODC's newest collective of budding choreographers. 
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