Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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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...
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2.7KAyalis in Motion’s ‘Pythagorean Peas’: Mysticism, love and more in movement
New York Live Arts, New York, NY. January 19, 2020. Myth, legend, love, loss — these big themes are part of cultural tradition,...
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2.7KAlmaNYC’s ‘YELLOW’: Community and connection in movement
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.January 18, 2020. Dance can hit us viscerally — right down to the bone. The reason why...
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2.2KLaugh now, feel now, move now: DANCE NOW’s Dance-mopolitan Encore Series
Joe’s Pub, New Yor, NY.January 11, 2020. Dance art with authentic humor and heart truly stays with me — I feel it,...
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1.9KGibney’s POP Performance: Women in Motion
The Theater at Gibney, New York, NY.January 30, 2020. Dance Informa sat down to see the Women in Motion commissions of 2020...
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3.9KComplexions Contemporary Ballet does what the company does well
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.January 22, 2020. Complexions Contemporary Ballet, now in its 26th year, remains one of the leading contemporary ballet...
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3.8KSidi Larbi Cherkaoui brings it all together in ‘Jagged Little Pill’
Broadhurst Theatre, New York, NY.January 21, 2020. A jukebox musical tends to fall into one of two categories: telling the life story...
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3.6KA Nutcracker for 2019: CONNetic Dance’s 10th anniversary ‘Nutcracker Suite and Spicy’
Aetna Atheneum Theater, Hartford, Connecticut.December 22, 2019. Every so often, dance lovers can find a gem of a dance company in an...
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4.5KMoving through different worlds, in one world: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center, New York, NY. December 6, 2019. Sophisticated, thoughtful dance art — and programming of its presentation — can take...
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3.5KIsland Moving Company’s ‘A Newport Nutcracker’: Where the magic meets the realism
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI. November 27, 2019. Like ballet at large, a big part of The Nutcracker‘s allure is the space where magic...
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2.3KKAIROS Dance Theater’s ‘OBJECT.’: Multiple meanings moved out
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.November 17, 2019. The multiplicity in KAIROS Dance Theater’s OBJECT. starts about as early as possible,...
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1.6K’32 rue Vandenbranden’: Bewildering beauty
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.November 22, 2019. Peeping Tom’s 32 rue Vandenbranden ran from November 20-23, at the Harvey Theater as part...
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1.9KDimitris Papaioannou’s ‘The Great Tamer’: Corpse and corpus
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.November 15, 2019. The Great Tamer made its New York debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard...
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2.5KSerendipitous, humorous and existential: Big Dance Theater’s ‘The Road Awaits Us’
NYU Skirball Theater, New York, NY. November 8, 2019. As a dance reviewer who sees a good deal of work, I’m often pleasantly...
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2.1KCuret Performance Project’s ‘ASPECTOS’: Bodies and beliefs
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY. November 1, 2019. “Belief is a beautiful armor, but it makes for the heaviest sword,” goes one...
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2.5KPaul Taylor American Modern Dance at Lincoln Center: The spirituality of movement
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.November 7, 2019. As humans evolved, they moved together to praise spirits — those that brought...
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4.0KA Halloween spectacular: ‘Beetlejuice’ on Broadway
Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY.November 14, 2019. “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” To open, Beetlejuice was so not my favorite movie growing up. As a...
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2.3KDancers Demand Action Benefit Concert: A tapestry of American dance
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. November 11, 2019. For such a young nation, relatively speaking, America has an impressive dance heritage —...
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2.1KAn ABT fall program: To move and to relate, through the ages
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. October 23, 2019. Moving, loving, eating, sleeping — there are actions that have always been fundamental...
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1.9KCamille A. Brown & Dancers’ ‘Mr. TOL E. RancE’: Dance reflecting hope in the face of adversity
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.November 10, 2019. It can be truly striking to sit back and reflect upon how American “pop”...
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1.6K‘The Day’: The power of simplicity and universality
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.October 22, 2019. There’s just something about when masters gather — their combined experiences jelling and mixing...
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3.0KA.I.M. at The Joyce: The fruits of eclecticism and collaboration
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. October 15, 2019. Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion (A.I.M.) seeks to “create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work” and...
