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SOUNDS OF SAVING | 06/20/2024
Tony Award Winning Broadway Musical ‘Illinoise’: Reflections on queerness, first love, loss, friendship, and growing up
Director and choreographer Justin Peck took the concept of a jukebox musical to a new level...
STAGE & CINEMA | 05/03/2024
New Dance-Theater Makes a Big (Illi)noise
New York City Ballet’s wunderkind Justin Peck... and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury... translate Sufjan
Stevens‘ 2005 concept album into a wordless, glorious dance musical.
VARIETY MAGAZINE | 04/26/2024
Illinoise’ Review: A Thrilling, Genre-Defying Broadway Musical Brings the Sufjan Stevens Albumto Lyrical Life
Justin Peck’s 90-minute dance theater piece... will indelibly be remembered as one of the most singular productions in recent Broadway history.
THE NEW YORK TIMES | 04/30/2024
Tony Awards Nominations 2024: The Complete List
Nominations for the 77th Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday.
Illinoise is nominated for Best Musical, Best Choreography, and more!
ROMPER | 01/05/2024
Isaac Mizrahi On ‘Third Bird’ & Making Theater for Children
“UH OH!” yelled a little voice from behind me as The Cat, danced by a sensuous young man [Zachary Gonder], slowly crept up on her would-be meal, the bird.
THE GUARDIAN | 12/25/2023
Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2023
Cool, rigorous, and intricately structured, unfolding in perfect marriage with David Lang’s score, [Pam Tanowitz’s Song of Songs] was quite simply the most beautiful piece of the year, full of love.
TWRITING ABOUT DANCE | 12/13/2023
Pam Tanowitz, Song of Songs, Barbican Theatre
Zachary Gonder’s presence reflects the sensuality of the text, with his smooth jump and pointed foot-like playful, barely perceptible punctuation.
THE GUARDIAN | 10/15/2023
Song of Songs review — a wondrous tribute to Jewish dance heritage
In an utterly wondrous section, Toogood and Zachary Gonder dance a long duet...
SLIPPEDISC | 10/12/2023
Alastair Maccaulay sees a world in which you become the universe
Zachary Gonder, the group’s tallest man, has now come into his own: he sometimes covers wide tracts of space in seemingly slow jumps, or just opens his arms sideways into the air in ample ways that feel immense.
FJORD | 05/30/2023
Parks and Rec
Zachary Gonder stood along the fountain rim and clapped along as in the Bransle Gay from “Agon”...
ART SPIEL | 05/23/2023
The Liu Shiming Foundation Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Acclaimed Sculptor Liu Shiming Through Supporting Emerging Artists
Dancer Zachary Gonder dancing during the Performance Animal.
THE ROGOVOY RERPORT | 07/03/2022
(Dance Review) Pam Tanowitz and David Lang’s ‘Song of Songs’ at Bard SummerScape
Dancers leap forward and backwards and land with impossible delicacy, before joining together in unison movements that then veer off into solos and a game of follow-the-leader.
THE NEW YORK TIMES | 07/3/2022
Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved
Is Beauty
Too good appears to be noticed and then pursued by Zachary Gonder. Together, they gambol like the stags in the poem.
THE ROAD TO SOUND | 03/02/2022
Concert Review: The Moving Orchestra
at Moto Spirit
It was here where the group’s commitment to making art that celebrates the joy of collaboration and exploration came to the fore.
THE NEW YORK TIMES | 02/11/2022
A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot
At the core of that experience are the 10 unostentatiously extraordinary dancers. And it’s like an Easter egg when Tanowitz herself appears…
FJORD | 02/10/2022
There Is Only the Dance
Toogood and Gonder’s duet was one of the most romantic vignettes I’ve seen in a while—in any medium.