Hey, New Yorkers: If you haven’t seen the amazing KEIGWIN + COMPANY yet, get thee to the Joyce Theater this week! The pop-culture-meets-modern-dance troupe was on DS‘s February cover, so obviously we’re obsessed with them—but you don’t have to take our word for it. Catch K + C performing two world premieres and the knock-your-socks-off […]
The days are growing shorter and chillier here in NYC, and whether we’re ready or not, winter is coming. (Please, no more polar vortexes this year!) But don’t let yourself get down in the dumps about the frigid months ahead. Instead, think of all the fun things about winter: hot cocoa, snow days, family time…and […]
Here’s some happy Friday news: The awesome Keigwin + Company, home to some of contemporary dance’s coolest kids, is turning 10! To celebrate, the group, which performs at the Joyce Theater next week, has been releasing a series of videos paying tribute to the company’s first big hit, Mattress Suite. The original piece, created after […]
KEIGWIN + COMPANY members in Larry Keigwin’s Megalopolis (Matthew Murphy) Marinda Davis is one busy choreographer. She travels nearly every weekend to set competition pieces at studios around the world, and also choreographs regularly for her own company, marInspired; the storytellers, in NYC. That kind of packed schedule sounds like a choreographer’s dream, right? But […]
Kyle Robinson (bottom row, left) and Brandon Cournay (top row, fourth from right) with their Juilliard class Brandon Cournay and Kyle Robinson are pretty similar. They both grew up in small towns, moved to NYC to attend The Juilliard School, received their BFAs in Dance in 2009 and went on to have majorly successful dance […]
We can’t get enough of Larry Keigwin’s kooky, super-talented dancers–and if you’re like us, we’re sure you can’t wait for KEIGWIN + COMPANY to return to The Joyce Theater in NYC this month (June 12-17) with two world premieres. We caught up with K + C’s hilarious Matt Baker (one of our February 2012 cover […]
Oh my gosh, you guys: I am obsessed with KEIGWIN + COMPANY. (If you read our February cover story, you’re already well aware of that obsession.) They’re making modern dance fun, one deliciously outrageous dance at a time. One of the coolest things about K + C is their collaborative choreographic process. Larry Keigwin, the […]
Larry Keigwin looks on during a K + C rehearsal. Every time they walk into the rehearsal studio, KEIGWIN + COMPANY dancers must wonder what the heck they’re about to become. Runway models? Birds? Aliens? Some bizarrely awesome combination of all three? Helmed by fearless leader Larry Keigwin, K + C has produced a string […]