Tok’Art is a dance company developing in Lisbon, Portugal creating progressive dance with an eye for the community.

Check out excerpts from a piece titled “LAKE” .

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Laura Halm in motion with black backdrop. This awesome, fluid, colorful, and continually in motion photo was taken by Benjamin Wardell. Check out his site bendwell.com.

In case you didn’t catch it, here is a synopsis of some of the main stream dance happenings for the 2009-2010 dance season.These are a few must knows.

The opening of Dixon Place, William Forsythe’s US premier of “Decreation” at BAM, Crystal Pite’s new work “Lost Action”(she just brought her skillfully crafted and touching piece “Second Person” set on NDT to Chicago’s Auditorium Theater) , ABT’s Performances at Avery Fischer Hall, Performa, dance performances at the Chocolate Factory, Trey Mcintyre’s Company in Boise and John Jasperse at the Joyce (but you’ll have to wait till June to see that one).

There are many more good things going on so check it out in Claudia La Rocco’s article

Leaps, Bounds, Birthdays, Despite Belt Tightening.

Twyla Tharp has devised a new  musical ” Come Fly with Me” set to the music of Frank Sinatra previewing at the AllianceTheater in Atlanta, Ga.

She has an all star dance cast from Ashley Tuttle (ABT), Holley Farmer( Merce Cunningham) and John Selya(Eddie in Movin’ Out). I hope she finds her footing on this one after the entertaining but mediocre “Movin’ Out”, set to Billy Joel music, and the embarrassing flop of the awful “The Times They Are a-Changin”, set to Bob Dylan Songs.

Maybe she’ll regain the flair and spirit of genius that we’ve seen in works such as “Duece Coup” and “In the Upper Room” in “Come Fly with Me”, but somehow I get an awful feeling that makes my toes cramp that this is no better than Poor Bob.

I pray that Twyla hasn’t turned into the dance version of Elton John with another cheesy poof musical, but maybe it’s already too late.

Read more about “Come Fly with Me.” in Gia Kourlas nytimes article A Night Club. Sinatra Singing. Couples in Love.