Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews
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3.1KMOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet’ and other works
The Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.September 23, 2019. To me, dance art is different than dance in an inclusion of other...
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2.1KFreemove Dance’s ‘…it’s time’: Action in time, movement in space
14th Street Y, New York, NY. September 22, 2019. Time. It’s quite a loaded concept. The word can trigger stress, anxiety, hope, nostalgia...
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1.9KA celebration of a legend: ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. October 5, 2019. As I took my seat in the Eisenhower...
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2.1KBalletX’s ‘The Little Prince’: The magic in the making
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. October 1, 2019. I love to attend live dance art because there’s a magic that happens when...
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4.7KClassical simplicity: Boston Ballet’s ‘Giselle’
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. September 19, 2019. The curtains rose on the first performance of Giselle on June 28, 1841, at the...
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2.8KNozama Dance Collective’s ‘Uplift’: Dance that lifts up
Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts.August 9, 2019. There’s a lot in this world that feels capable of bringing us down. The weight...
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2.7KMusic, movement and the unexpected: mignolo dance’s ‘Translations’
HERE Arts Center, New York, NY.July 30, 2019. Dance art — it’s a coming together of movement and costumes, lighting, and often...
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2.9KShowing meaning in dance art: Inclined Dance Project’s inQUAD
Dixon Place, New York, NY. August 23, 2019. A reach conveying longing and loss, a falling to the floor conveying despair and hopelessness;...
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3.0KOne word, one dancer: BalaSole Dance Company’s ‘Evening of Solos’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.August 17, 2019. Less can be more, they say. Apply that to dance, and one could discuss...
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2.6KAll that it can be: 2019 Ballet Festival at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.August 6, 10, 13 and 16, 2019. Taking in four nights of The Joyce’s Ballet Festival, I...
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2.3KRock ‘n’ roll Romeo and Juliet vibe in ‘Bat Out of Hell’
New York City Center, New York, NY.August 7, 2019. Meat Loaf in a musical? I was quite confused but certainly intrigued. Bat Out of Hell...
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4.7KTruth, beauty, freedom, love, and don’t forget the Rouge
Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York, NY.August 1, 2019. Moulin Rouge! The Musical opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 25. Directed...
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2.2KAl Blackstone’s stroke of genius in ‘Freddie Falls in Love’
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.July 23, 2019. Freddie Falls in Love, a dance narrative presented by The Joyce Theater Foundation in...
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3.8K‘Maze’ at The Shed: Hip hop within contemporary art
The Shed, New York, NY.July 24, 2019. Maze is a world premiere Shed commission with dancers from The D.R.E.A.M. Ring and The...
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2.4KTechnology, dance and 2019: Arch Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Chromatic Skies’
Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY. July 11, 2019. Sheena Annalise founded Arch Contemporary Ballet “to ensure the continuous evolution of ballet, designed...
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2.4KJennifer Kuhnberg’s ‘What is Love?’: Choreographing personal experience
OnStage Dance Company, Malden, Massachusetts.July 12, 2019. Good writers write about what they know, goes an old aphorism. Does that also hold...
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14.0KAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dancing meaning and motivation
Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. June 15, 2019. In dancemaking, there’s the meaning of the work at hand (the...
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2.9KAmerican Ballet Theatre’s Jane Eyre: Atmosphere and authenticity to text in the modern day
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. June 10, 2019. Narrative dance art holds a central challenge — how do you tell...
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3.5KDemonstrating why dance art matters: José Limón Dance Company at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. May 29, 2019. There’s just something about the ephemeral magic of dance art — the way...
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4.3KIt’s not about the tricks: Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Audacity’
March 22, 2019. Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ellice Patterson started Abilities Dance Boston with a clear mission: to offer a space...
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3.2KDance in a spacial context: VLA Dance’s ‘Sand’
Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. April 27, 2019. A key aspect of dance art is that it takes place in a space,...
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4.0KThe rich legacy of Shakespearean ballets: New York City Ballet in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
June 1, 2019. The David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. In his time, William Shakespeare was a maverick innovator; he literally...
