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The Click’s ‘Refract/Reframe’: Bright new horizons

The Foundry, Cambridge, MA.December 4, 2022. Boston-based dance artist Kristin Wagner stepped into the spotlight. She explained that this program, Refract/Reframe, was...

Lil Buck. Photo by Louis 'Ziggy' Tucker.

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Lil Buck’s ‘Memphis Jookin’: Art bursting through

Rose Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.February 3, 2023. Memphis Jookin, a tale of growing up dancing in...

'Soul Chain' by tanzmainz / Sharon Eyal.

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tanzmainz in Sharon Eyal’s ‘Soul Chain’: Is it love?

The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.January 24, 2023. Dancers stride across the stage in Sharon Eyal’s signature relevé walk (legs mostly straight...

Rachel Watson-Jih and David Parker in Company SBB's 'Look Who's Coming to Dinner'. Photo by Robert Torres.

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Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland’s ‘Look Who’s Coming to Dinner’: Motion, metamorphosis and care

The Plimpton Shattuck Theater, Boston, MA.January 15, 2023. I was waiting for Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland’s Look Who’s Coming to...

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Envisioning a new world through dance: Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Inversion’

The Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA.November 4, 2022 Creating a whole new world, of shifted values and disrupted systems and structures: it can...

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‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker’: A fun-filled take on the age old ballet

New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ.December 17, 2022. In its 10th season, the Emmy Award-winning The Hip Hop Nutcracker filled a Saturday evening...

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Kimberly Landle’s ‘KIM’: Dancing out of trauma and into growth

Available via Vimeo.Streaming beginning October 7, 2022. Have you ever thought about which stories we tell, whose stories we tell, how we...

Nathan Lee Graham and company in 'Hadestown' North American Tour 2022. Photo by T Charles Erickson.

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‘Hadestown’ is heating up Atlanta’s Fox Theatre

Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA.January 10, 2023. Hadestown, the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards®, including Best New Musical, and the 2020 Grammy®...

Lia Cirio and Boston Ballet in 'Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker'. Photo by Brooke Trisolini, courtesy of Boston Ballet.

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Boston Ballet’s 2022 ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’: Treasuring tradition

Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA.December 18th, 2022, 1:30 PM Holiday traditions: bright lights downtown, going to get a Christmas tree with...

ANIKAYA Dance Theater in 'The Women Gather'. Photo by Marlene Mata.

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Back to roots of communal sound and movement: ANIKAYA Dance Theater’s ‘The Women Gather’

The Strand Theater, Dorchester, MA.November 6, 2022 You can probably conjure the mental image: people moving together, in community, along with vibrant...

Gibney Company in Ohad Naharin's 'Yag 2022'. Photo by Jonathan Taylor.

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Gibney Company captivates in Ohad Naharin’s ‘Yag 2022’

New York Live Arts, New York, NY.December 14, 2022. Yag 2022, presented as part of Gibney Company’s Up Close series, is a...

Complexions Contemporary Ballet in 'Snatched Back from the Edges' by Dwight Rhoden. Photo by Taylor Craft.

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The beauty of slowing down: Complexions Contemporary Ballet at The Joyce

The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.November 26, 2022. Spending time in NYC to see world-class dance is one of the true treasures...

Paul Taylor Dance Company's Jake Vincent, Kristin Draucker and Company in 'Esplanade'. Photo by Steven Pisano.

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Paul Taylor Dance Company in its ‘New Era’

David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.November 3, 2022. Paul Taylor Dance Company, under the direction of Michael Novak,...

Artists Climate Collective's 'Art to Action'. Photo by Gabriel Trujillo.

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Artists Climate Collective’s ‘Art to Action’ 2022: One mountain, many paths

Streaming through artistsclimatecollective.org.Premiering October 7, 2022. “One mountain, many paths” goes the saying; there are most often varied approaches toward one goal....

Island Moving Company's 'Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff'. Photo by Lauren Healey.

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Understated elegance in Island Moving Company’s 2022 ‘Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’

Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 23, 2022. We so often associate The Nutcracker with a whole lot of pomp and circumstance: blizzards of...

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Fox Theatre presents the enchanting ‘Anastasia The Musical’

Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA.December 6, 2022. From the Tony Award-winning creators of the Broadway classic Ragtime and inspired by the beloved films,...

Island Moving Company in 'Points of Departure'.

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Island Moving Company’s ‘Points of Departure’: Multiple paths of perception

Newport Congregational Church, Newport, RI.October 7, 2022. First impressions can come into question as we learn more and reflect further – and...

Dimitris Papaioannou's 'Transverse Orientation'. Photo by Julian Mommert.

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Dimitris Papaioannou’s ‘Transverse Orientation’: Infinite material to chew on

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.November 8, 2022. The set of Transverse Orientation, Dimitris Papaioannou’s latest work, is simple: a white wall...

Festival Ballet Providence's Katherine Bickford, Kirsten Evans, Ricardo Rhodes and Luis Ocaranza. Photo by Dylan Giles.

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Aesthetic confluence in Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Off the Wall’

Woodman Family and Community Arts Center, Providence, RI.October 23, 2022. Have you ever looked at a painting and felt like its living...

Carmen Caceres/DanceAction's 'Welcome to Imagi*Nation: The Trilogy'. Photo by Daniel Hess.

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Choose your own adventure in DanceAction’s ‘Welcome to Imagi*Nation: The Trilogy’

The Center at West Park, New York, NY.October 27, 2022. Carmen Caceres/DanceAction’s Welcome to Imagi*Nation: The Trilogy is a “choose-your-own-adventure dance theater...

Gisèle Vienne's 'Crowd'. Photo by Maria Baranova.

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Gisèle Vienne’s ‘Crowd’: A slow motion journey

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.October 13, 2022. French choreographer Gisèle Vienne takes audiences on a slow motion journey through a rave in...