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Camille LeFevre

Camille LeFevre is a freelance arts journalist and editor, dance critic and dance scholar, whose criticism and essays on the performing arts, music, architecture, design, business and the environment have appeared in such publications as Metropolis, Architectural Record, Audubon, Utne Reader, Minnesota Magazine, The Rake and Architecture Minnesota. Read more about Camille at CamilleLeFevre.com.

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Choreographer John Jasperse's piece at the Walker explores truth, lies

By Camille LeFevre | 05/20/10
For years, I’ve been following the work of New York choreographer John Jasperse, with particular interest in how he regularly reconfigures stage space to activate audiences as part of the performance.
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Choreographers' evening, 'Renovate,' returns to the Ritz

By Camille LeFevre | 05/19/10
The Ritz Theater’s third-annual choreographers’ evening, "Renovate," opens this weekend with a new batch of emerging and established dance artists showcasing new work.
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India's rivers inspired Ragamala’s sumputous new work

By Camille LeFevre | 05/18/10
Ragamala Dance is becoming the hottest ticket in town.
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New York's dre.dance to make Midwest debut with 'beyond.words' at Ordway

By Camille LeFevre | 05/18/10
Taye Diggs’ dance company is coming to St. Paul. You read me right.
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The Shubert Center's NewDNA: Your questions answered

By Camille LeFevre | 05/17/10
Several weeks ago, while at a dance performance, I found an envelope taped to my chair.
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TU Dance's 'Sense(ability),' contains breathtaking movement, but too many gimmicks

By Camille LeFevre | 05/10/10
It’s happened again. Another Twin Cities’ choreographer, whom we know is capable of forging abstract choreography of tremendous emotional intelligence and kinetic resonance, has opted for gimmicks.
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TU Dance to present Uri Sands’ first evening-length work

By Camille LeFevre | 05/04/10
TU Dance is capable of such grace and graciousness, intelligence and artistry, technical prowess and aesthetic sensitivity that watching the company’s concert in February was a disappointment. Where was the choreographic vision?
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Celebrating choreographer Nora Chipaumire, in film and on stage

By Camille LeFevre | 04/28/10
Perhaps the best way to determine whether to see Nora Chipaumire’s dance performance “lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi,” on Thursday at Northrop is to take in the 36-minute film “Nora” tonigh
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Minneapolis choreographer Morgan Thorson awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

By Camille LeFevre | 04/20/10
Morgan Thorson, whose work “Heaven” was performed at the Walker Art Center in March after touring the United States, has been awarded one of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2010. Called a “midcareer” award, the “Guggenheim Fellowships ar
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Saburo Teshigawara in rare solo appearance: 'Miroku' at the Walker

By Camille LeFevre | 04/20/10
Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara is an artist of extremes. With his company, KARAS, he’s choreographed works with animals (performers in “Green/Raj Packet” included a goat) and on a stage littered with broken glass (“Glass Tooth”).