Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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7.5KMatthew Bourne’s ‘Cinderella’ brings promise to a new day
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C. January 16, 2019. Choreographer Matthew Bourne is probably still best known for his Swan Lake (1995), which featured...
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2.5KDancers grounded and in flight: Yoo and Dancers at the 92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y, New York, New York. January 5, 2019. Humans have always wanted to fly. Dancers, for their part, learn to reach...
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3.1KTaking respectful liberties with a classic: José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Nutcracker’
Strand Theatre, Dorchester, Massachusetts. December 14, 2018. The Nutcracker is inarguably a long-standing holiday tradition around the world. Is it possible for...
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3.4K‘The Cher Show’ celebrates an icon
Neil Simon Theatre, New York, NY. December 12, 2018. I was very excited for this musical. Even if you’re not a Cher fan, you...
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2.8KDance legacies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary performance
New York City Center, New York, NY. December 2, 2018. Dance as an art form owes a lot to legacy – the...
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6.2KAtlanta Ballet enchants and stuns in new ‘Nutcracker’
The Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia. December 9, 2018. The story of The Nutcracker is an old tale, told by many dance companies around...
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5.0KTheatricality, fun and humor in Boston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. November 29, 2018. The Nutcracker is a tale with a long tradition of telling, far and wide....
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3.0KArena Stage wows the crowd with ‘Anything Goes’
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, Washington, D.C. November 17, 2018. Last night, I had the chance to see...
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2.5K‘The Tenant’ at The Joyce Theater: What we value in performance
The Joyce Theater, New York, New York. November 10, 2018. There’s no questioning that social mores shift over the decades and centuries;...
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2.4K‘King Kong’ on Broadway is larger than life
Broadway Theatre, New York, New York. November 14, 2018. The job of a critic is just as much an art as the...
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3.1K‘4 On The Floor’ by Touché Taps: Joyful rhythms
The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 21, 2018. My only thought or expectation heading into this show is that I don’t often...
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4.4KPeter DiMuro’s ‘Small Visitations in a Near Empty Room’: Beauty in perspective
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 2018. In our frenetic 2018 western-culture lives, how often do we stop to appreciate...
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3.1KThe social action art of Silvana Cardell’s ‘Supper, People on the Move’
The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. September 28, 2018. How do you react when you’re faced with something unexpected? How do you react...
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2.5KLuminarium Dance’s ‘Hiveland’: An interpretable world
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. September 21, 2018. Some of the best art leaves open room for interpretation – not enough so...
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4.0KAtlanta Ballet shows growth in mixed repertory program ‘Return to Fall’
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta, Georgia. September 14, 2018. On Friday night, September 14, the Atlanta Ballet presented Return to Fall,...
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7.2KConnections Dance Theater dances about water as life
OnStage Dance Company, Malden, Massachusetts. August 19, 2018. Dance can viscerally depict the human impact of certain events in our world. Paired...
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5.0KDuets galore at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival
The Huntington Avenue Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. August 11, 2018. The duet form can make art speak to one of the most innately...
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4.8KWhen dancers, together, have had it: Nozama Dance Collective’s ‘Enough
Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 4, 2018. The concept for Nozama Dance Collective (NDC)’s Enough grew roughly along with the emergence of...
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2.5K2018 Capezio ACE Awards is a treat for the senses
New York Hilton Midtown, New York, New York. August 4, 2018. With 21 varied dance works from a long list of up-and-coming,...
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7.0KThere’s something new and exciting in Broadway’s latest, ‘Head Over Heels’
Hudson Theatre, New York, New York. August 2, 2018. How does one even attempt to explain the new Go-Go’s musical, Head Over...
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3.6KGreat friends dancing together at Island Moving Company’s Great Friends Dance Festival
St. Michael’s Country Day School, Newport, Rhode Island. July 21, 2018. It could be easy for dance artists and organizations to remain...
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6.6KOnstage Dance Company’s Season 15 Performance: Dancing in community
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. June 17, 2018. As far back in human history as we know of, we’ve danced together in communities....
