5.8.08
Weekend Highlights May 9-11
THE ROGOVOY REPORT
5.6.08
[PRESS RELEASE] Pinchas Zukerman daughter Natalia to headline at Club Helsinki
Coming to Great Barrington, Mass., nightclub on May 18
5.2.08
Singer/composer Jenny Scheinman at MASS MoCA is weekend's top pick
Preview by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.25.08
[FILM REVIEW] Shine a Light (The Rolling Stones)
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.17.08
[FILM REVIEW] The Counterfeiters
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.11.08
Klezmatics do Woody Guthrie's Jewish songs
Weekend highlights, April 11-13
3.17.08
GOLEM returns to Club Helsinki for PURIM this Friday night
Press Release from Club Helsinki
3.8.08
CHEESE TO BE SPOKEN OF AND EATEN ON MARCH 30
part of BERKSHIRE LIVING's REST OF THE STORY series
2.25.08
Richard Thompson, America, and Madeline Peyroux added to Mahaiwe lineup this spring
Mahaiwe press release
7.1.07
[DANCE REVIEW] State Ballet of Georgia at Jacob's Pillow
Review from the NEW YORK TIMES
2.24.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Urban vs. Pastoral Music at the Mahaiwe courtesy of Close Encounters with Music
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[THEATER REVIEW] TRUMBO at Barrington Stage
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Sarah Aroeste's neo-Ladino at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.21.08
[FILM REVIEW] THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
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[DANCE REVIEW] Bebe Miller Company at Jacob's Pillow
8.24.07
JACOB's PILLOW
Bebe Miller Company
Doris Duke Studio Theatre
August 23-26, 2007
Review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large for BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
(BECKET, Mass., August 24, 2007) -- Following by a week the disappointing multimedia performance of Bridgman/Packer, Bebe Miller's Landing/Place was a welcome tonic that made a dancegoer open his mind again to the possibilities of the use of video and animation in dance.
Miller's full-length, 70-minute program, featuring five dancers, composer Albert Mathias performing his score, and "motion capture" video and animation, wasn't always crystal clear, but the energy never flagged and it was full of surprises. Most importantly, even though the subject matter was ostensibly exploring one's sense of home, which in this case seems to have involved a journey from the Southern U.S. (with Mathias playing some suggestive bluesy riffs on his lap steel guitar) to Eritrea, from where Miller's ancestors hail, the dance never took itself so seriously that it wasn't able to laugh, or rather, provoke lighter moments.
If one thing was clear about the best programs at the Pillow this summer, it is that those that were willing to relax and laugh -- even while occasionally provoking or even shocking an audience -- were the best.
And Bebe Miller Company was one of them.
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