Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews
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1.1KMotion State Arts’s 2022 Motion State Dance Festival: Art to provoke thought and inspire
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.March 9-12, 2022. I (very happily) committed to review the 2022 Motion State Dance Festival, and it was...
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939Island Moving Company’s ‘Masterful Movers’ 40th Anniversary Gala: Celebratory spectacle and excellence
Veterans Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.March 11, 2022. Booming music and soulful dance resonating into your flesh and bones: there’s nothing quite like...
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663Armitage Gone! Dance’s ‘A Pandemic Notebook’: Making bold choices
New York Live Arts, New York, NY.March 19, 2022. Armitage Gone! Dance’s A Pandemic Notebook is a series of short works that brings together...
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654mignolo dance’s ‘Visitor Parking’: A well-constructed tour through mental illness
Gardenship Art, Kearny, NJ.December 10, 2021. For those who crave the delights that a given art form is uniquely in a position to...
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673Boston Ballet’s ‘ChoreograpHER’: Steps toward change
CitiBank Opera House, Boston, MA.March 6, 2022. “Actions speak louder than words,” goes the old saying. In recent years the world has...
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746Dance that thinks globally, acts locally: NACHMO Boston 2022
Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA.February 22, 2022. An amazing thing about dance (among many amazing things) is its universality; there are...
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1.1KFestival Ballet Providence’s ‘Up Close on Hope’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’: Dance bringing hope far and wide
Festival Ballet Providence’s Black Box Theater, Providence, RI.February 13, 2022. Lord knows that we could all use a little hope these days....
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974Kyle Abraham’s ‘An Untitled Love’: Embodying black excellence
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.February 23, 2022. Kyle Abraham’s piece, An Untitled Love, made its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy...
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990OnStage Dance Company ‘Season 21’: A peek behind the camera
Capitol Theater Building, Arlington, MA (and streaming via OnStagedanceco.com).Film screenings January 9-11, and digital program streaming January 9. We all know and...
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1.2KDoron Perk’s ‘Grandfather Visit’: Dancing the deeply personal
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY (and streaming).October 14, 2021, and via YouTube. Right from the opening credits of Doron Perk’s Grandfather...
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880The march of time through confined space: Rourou Ye’s ‘May I dance on your screen?’
Streaming online at digitaldance.space.Premiered October 31, 2021. Life happens in both time and space, and so does dance. In both life and dance,...
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1.0KAbilities Dance Boston and ‘Titian: Women, Myth & Power’: The stories behind the movement
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.November 5, 2021. Art tells human stories. That’s a pretty obvious and universally accepted statement. Yet,...
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1.3KRe-envisioning a tradition: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘The Nutcracker’
The Vets Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.December 19, 2021. The Nutcracker, although younger than many story ballets, is quite a classic. Given its...
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1.3KThe treasure of tradition: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2021 City Center Season
New York City Center, New York, NY.December 8, 2021. Walking through the streets of Manhattan on my way to take in Alvin...
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5.0KLess can truly be more: Island Moving Company’s 20th annual ‘A Newport Nutcracker’ at Rosecliff
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 24, 2021. Clichés become clichés for a reason; however trite they come to feel, they contain a nugget...
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2.0KWhat’s changed and what hasn’t: Boston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’ 2021
Citizens Bank Boston Opera House, Boston, MA.November 28, 2021. As live performances have returned to theaters this year, many questions have lingered...
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1.6K‘Visitor Parking’ by mignolo dance: A multimedia piece exploring mental health
Gardenship Art, Kearny, NJ.December 11, 2021. Visitor Parking by mignolo dance allows audiences to walk in the footsteps of a patient navigating a...
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1.3KParsons Dance at The Joyce: Something new under the sun
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.December 9, 2021. When I requested to review Parsons Dance – meaning that I’d see the company live for...
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1.5KA kaleidoscopic final bow: DANCE NOW’s Fall 2021 digital program
Streaming November 4-30, 2021.Available via dancenow.org. On October 28, 2021, the DANCE NOW board and founders announced the difficult decision to cease...
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1.3KBig Dance Theater’s ‘The Mood Room’: A world we don’t want to live in
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.December 2, 2021. For all its colorful chit-chat, The Mood Room presents a remarkably one-dimensional, insular world organized by...
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1.1KBoston Ballet’s ‘reSTART’: Pleasant dance for tough times
October 28-November 7, 2021.Available through BB at Home. For not the first time since March 2020, I logged on to watch a...
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2.0KSoulfulness in motion: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Fall 2021 All Access Season
Various premiere dates.Available streaming at Ailey All Access. Movement has the potential to convey soulfulness — the strength and resilience, the depths...
