Dance and the Urban Experience   by Emily LaRocque
Surface differences aside, Brooklyn-based Beth Gills “wounded giant” and Tokyo-based Kakuya Ohashi’s “Wish You Were Here,” presented together recently at the Kitchen, have more in common than a spare aesthetic and a detached air.

The Latin Vibe   by Kathryn Enright
Watching a woman dance salsa in the dimly lit, close interior of a bar dance floor is like looking at the physical incarnation of feminine sensuality. Her body, curvaceous and strong, swirls in eights, sensuous and self-possessed, toying with rhythm. Her chest is open and forgiving; her feet move in relation to her partners lead, intimating the swivel of her arches up into her knees and hips. I am enthralled by her mobile vitality: her intimate bond with her dancing body.

Ann Liv Young’s "Michael" Review   by Krista Miranda
Ann Liv Young’s ’Michael” is an interdisciplinary exploration of the hyper-real, which defies categorization as anything other than “performance art.” By juxtaposing the natural and theatrical, the private and public, the mundane and the over-the-top, Young complicates the relationship between audience and performer, obscuring the boundaries between the two, thereby questioning the limits between “life” and “art.”








The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005 Ippie Awards from the Independent Press Association-N.Y.:

1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a Distant Dream" (December 2004/January 2005)

2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy" (March 2005)

3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June 2005)

3rd Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen

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