Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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5.2K‘The Red Shoes’ from Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures brings atmosphere and drama
New York City Center, New York, New York. October 26, 2017. The Red Shoes came into existence nearly 70 years ago, when...
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7.7KAl Blackstone’s ‘American Dance Spectacular’ takes us through the ages
On Stage at Kingsborough, Brooklyn, New York. October 28, 2017. American Dance Spectacular, a revue-style production choreographed by Al Blackstone (So You...
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3.9KWomen are strong in ‘The Color Purple’ National Tour
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. October 24, 2017. The Color Purple, a powerful Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the novel by Alice...
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3.5KTap stars unite to celebrate a life of tap in ‘Lotus’
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. October 7, 2017. Even before the show began, the newly renovated Terrace...
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4.6KIsland Moving Company in ‘Open for Dancing’: Spirits of spaces
Newport, Rhode Island. September 24, 2017. Site work certainly has its challenges – legal, logistical and physical safety aspects. Yet what can...
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8.7KNew York City Dance Alliance Foundation honors Ann Reinking
NYU Skirball Center, New York, New York. October 1, 2017. She doesn’t even have to dance. All she has to do is...
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5.5KThird Life Choreographer Series: No frills, no fuss
Third Life Studio, Somerville, Massachusetts. September 15, 2017. Where and when was postmodernism born? Arguably, it was more than 50 years ago...
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4.7KArch Contemporary Ballet: The ‘pointe’ of motion
Sheen Center, New York, New York. August 13, 2017. There’s a certain stereotype of dancers as people who stay quiet, do what...
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3.8KDancing in community: MIT Summer Bhangra’s final performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. August 10, 2017. We all used to dance together, all the time; it wasn’t always confined...
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4.9KGotta Dance Contemporary merges art forms in ‘KAIROS’
7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. August 5, 2017. The dance world is one of ever-evolving movements and techniques. Along with these changing...
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9.3KNozama Dance Collective’s ‘Bodies and Choices’: Moving apart and together
Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 5, 2017. Throughout human history, we’ve moved sometimes in step and sometimes out of step. Dance...
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3.7KKAIROS Dance Theater’s ‘STOCKS & BONDS’ at Listen Hear: The Art of Sound
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. July 7, 2017. Part of artistic modernism is a chipping away at – even, sometimes, a...
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6.3KMOMIX is raw and mesmerizing in ‘Opus Cactus’ at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. June 30, 2017. It’s 2017, and in order for audiences to be wowed nowadays, performances often...
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6.0KAmerican Ballet Theatre makes love easy to believe in ‘Giselle’
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York. May 30, 2017. The house roared with a prolonged standing ovation. Over 170 years after...
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7.2KThe unity of art: Arch Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Hues of Memory’
The Davenport Theatre, New York, New York. May 30, 2017. It might be a grand claim, but nothing can unify quite like...
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5.2KL.A. Dance Project: Stillness and movement
Boch Center, Boston, Massachusetts. May 20, 2017. Dance is, evidently enough, an art form based in movement. Yet if movement is constant,...
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6.1KJosé Mateo Ballet Theatre’s ‘Inescapable Orbit’: Gravitational dances
The Sanctuary Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts. May 6, 2017. “I don’t wanna fall another moment into your gravity,” sings pop star Sara Bareilles...
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4.8KBoston Ballet’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Classicism in 2017
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. April 29, 2017. We’re in an age with an enormous amount of content – more podcasts, talk...
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9.3K‘Anastasia’ on Broadway offers the unexpected
Broadhurst Theatre, New York, NY. April 26, 2017. Anastasia is surprisingly unexpected. It’s not the cartoon movie, nor is it the account you’ve...
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4.2KAll’s fair in art: Boston Ballet’s ‘Wings of Wax’
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. March 23, 2017. “All’s fair in love and war,” they say. One could add art to that...
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8.6KDivergence and convergence – Green Street Studios’ Ballet Showcase
Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 22, 2017. On the one hand, there’s diversity – the existence of varied ways to be...
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6.7KA sense of hope: Atlanta Ballet in ‘Firebird’
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta, Georgia. April 14, 2017. On Friday night, April 14th, the Atlanta Ballet presented Firebird, a triple...
