November 9, 2002

The World of Dance with Francis Mason

The other nights as I watched Ice Theatre of New York at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, I recalled how I used to think dancing on ice is swoopy or jazzy to soupy or peppy music with acrobatics thrown in. Ice Theatre of New York kept changing my mind. With ballerina Katherine Healy, who knows the classics deeply, and David Liu, Nijinsky on ice, they are also focused on young choreographers like Jacqulyn Buglisi, who's made the finest new modern dance in the past ten years. Buglisi's given them a contemplation for a man and a woman about belonging to each other that's based on a poem by John Donne. Ice Theatre of New York has one more performance, tonight at 7. Run put on your coat and dash to Sky Rink, Pier 62 at 23rd Street and the Hudson River. And that's the story on THE WORLD OF DANCE. This is Francis Mason.