Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews
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3.9KOuter and inner: ‘Where in Newport is Island Moving Company?’
Four Thursday afternoons in July and August.Various parks in Newport, RI. Live dance performance has an unparalleled, ephemeral magic. Part of that...
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1.9KDiavolo’s ‘This Is Me: Letters from the Front Lines’
July 31, 2020.Online, on YouTube. Among the many performances presented in the new quarantine norm of livestreaming, Diavolo’s This Is Me: Letters from...
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1.8KSteps and leaps forward: Lonnie Stanton and Dancers’ ‘Redirect and Progress’
Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts.July 18, 2020. There’s something uniquely magnetic about site-specific dance work, even by the standards of this exceptionally ephemeral...
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1.4K‘Liquidus’: Tabula Rasa Dance Theater presents four dancers sheltering in place in New York City
July 25, 2020.Online, on YouTube. During the COVID pandemic, nine of the dancers of the Tabula Rasa Dance Theater company became sick...
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1.7KThe Festival of Us, You, We and Them at Dance Complex: Connecting and growing virtually
June 26-27, 2020.Online — @thedancecomplex and Dance Complex on Facebook. Humans evolved moving through the world, together in tight-knit communities. In 2020,...
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1.9KDallas Black Dance Theatre’s live ‘Petit Performance’ brings art online
July 10, 2020.Online – www.dbdt.com. Art in the time of corona is all about finding ways to connect with your community online....
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3.7KMartha Graham Dance Company reimagines lost solo ‘Immediate Tragedy’
June 19, 2020. Online, on YouTube. On June 19, for the first time since 1937, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed a reimagining...
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2.4KNYCB Digital Spring Season: The show must go on
March, April and May 2020.Online (YouTube and Facebook, through www.nycballet.com) It’s sort of striking to think how years of planning can change...
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2.2KPerformance Mix Festival, Online: ‘Remotely Yours’
May 2020.Online at newdancealliance.org. Pandemic times mean that in-person dance festivals are absolutely out of the question. Rather than fully give into...
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2.8KConcert dance living on, online with Island Moving Company’s ‘Great Dance in Great Places’
Newport, Rhode Island’s premier contemporary ballet company, Island Moving Company (IMC), has always been inventive and resourceful; without a consistent “home-base” theater;...
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2.5KDancing to feel free: Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Cultivate’
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.March 13, 2020 Dancing can make us feel free — free in our body and free to be...
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2.6KClassicism and modernism in conversation: Brooklyn Ballet’s ‘Revisionist History II’
The Actors Fund Theater, Brooklyn, NY.February 13, 2020. In this post-postmodern age, both the modern and the classical are celebrated and critiqued....
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2.4KBallet Nepantla melds Mexican history with outstanding artistry in ‘Valentina’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.March 13, 2020. Ballet Nepantla Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo describes Valentina as telling “the untold history of the Adelitas,...
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2.2KNederlands Dans Theater’s ‘The Missing Door’ goes beyond the entertainment
New York City Center, New York, NY.March 6, 2020. Under the guidance of Director/House Choreographer Paul Lightfoot and Artistic Advisor/House Choreographer Sol...
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2.5KIlluminating innovation in Arch Ballet’s winter 2020 season
The Sheen Center for Culture and Innovation, New York, NY.February 20, 2020. Aesthetic and meaning — memorable art achieves something in both...
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1.7KA split bill of split approaches and qualities: Annalee Traylor and Project 44 in ‘Take Root’
Green Space, Queens, NY.February 8, 2020. Sometimes art juxtaposed with other art can reveal what all of that art really is; contrast...
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4.2KAmanda Selwyn Dance Theatre celebrates 20 years with ‘Hindsight’
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY.March 6, 2020. Hindsight marks 20 years of dancing for Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre. An accumulation of...
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3.5KWilliam Forsythe: ‘A Quiet Evening of Dance’
The Griffin Theater at The Shed, New York, NY.October 13, 2019. William Forsythe is arguably the most important living choreographer to advance...
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3.0KOnStage Dance Company’s Season 18 Performance: The power of concept
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, Massachusetts. January 25, 2020. Concept — it can set dance art apart from movement, make it relevant,...
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4.0KDana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s ‘A Tribute to Marian Anderson’: Harmonic motion
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.February 3, 2020. Resistance can come in the form of quiet, graceful strength — in persistence,...
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2.2KSara Juli’s ‘Burnt-Out Wife’ doesn’t dance around the issue
Dixon Place, New York, NY.February 28, 2020. Sara Juli’s one-woman show, Burnt-Out Wife, is a dance-, song- and comedy-based conversation about the expectations and...
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3.2KMatthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ is worth the wait
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.January 22, 2020. Just last January, I made my way to the...
