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| The Dance Insider September 23, 2002 "Joyce SoHo was packed for the first New York season of Jamie Bishton | Dance, with a line down the block, floor cushions creating extra rows, and an audience full of presenters, funders, press, and -- yes -- dance insiders. Bishton mustered an impeccable evening." -----------
"DANCE REVIEW | When Tricky Little
Parts Never Outshine the Whole" "Jamie Bishton is know primarily as a former standout dancer with the companies of Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov. That may change...Mr. Bishton is well on his way to a solid career as a choreographer. He dance big, filling the stage like a sudden gust of breeze, but no detail or nuance is slighted." -----------
"DANCE REVIEW | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
OF THE ARTS: A Temper Tantrum and a Preacher in a Car" Jamie Bishton's "Tr(us)t," danced to gently syncopated music by Eric Oberthaler, was a good deal more compelling than its title. Neat and sweet, the accomplished little dance sent two engaging performers (Ana Gonzalez and Paul Matteson) through spiraling near-clinches. Click
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"Naked
Lunch" In a photography by Tony Rinaldo and an essay by Nancy Dalva, Jamie Bishton explores the nature of "Picnic" with his reinterpretations of Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe." "Manet painted with pigment. Bishton paints with people."-- Nancy Dalva Click
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"Choreography That Makes the Most of
Young Talent" November 24, 2001 -New York Times "The challenge of programming an evening of choreography for relatively inexperienced performers is to create dance that will acknowledge and expand their gifts without losing the audience. Three choreographers did just that for their Barnard College dance students last Saturday night at the Miller Theater."..."Jamie Bishton offered two leads (Thea Little and Alfred A. Lance) and an angelic chorus of eight women the chance to be pretty, lyrical and elegiac in ''Things That Cannot Be Painted,'' a work led by Ms. Little and Mr. Lance and set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams." Click
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"The Seven Deadly
Sins," Performance Review July 14, 2001 - Berkshire Arts and Cultural News. NewBerkshire.com "The Seven Deadly Sins had its world premier at Jacob's Pillow to sold out shows."... "All are good, though Envy stands out as most noteworthy."... "The high point of the evening is Jamie Bishton's Envy danced by Bishton, Desmond Richardson and Rasta Thomas, Stephanie Liapis, Paul Matteson and Krissy Richmond. It starts with an impromptu dance competition between Thomas and Richardson, both extremely talented dancers, trying to best each other with their magnificent moves. Then it evolves into three dancers doing graceful ballet movements with the other three aping and mocking them with "modern" dance turned sleazy. The piece is set to cello suites by JS Bach and Benjamin Britten. There is an interesting envy twist on the music. Says Bishton: "My interpretation is that Britten was inspired by and on some level envied the Bach suites. He wanted to create his own based on those." (Susan Reiter, NY Times, July 8, 01)" Click
here for full article "Go Sin Some More." Village Voice July 25-31 - Village Voice "Bishton, drawing music from cello suites by Bach and Britten, attempts to show "Envy" through formal patterns and shifting tensions that destroy the harmony of a circle. A pirouette competition escalates into sparring. Stephanie Liapis is ousted and squabbled over. "Envy,"... full of interesting movement." Click
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Envy-
"The Seven Deadly Sins," Jacob's Pillow |