Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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519Taking dance film forward: The 51st Annual Dance on Camera Festival 
Film at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.February 10-13, 2023. Dance film didn’t originate in the COVID lockdown era, yet it certainly proliferated...
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378The 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...
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450Lil 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...
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390tanzmainz 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...
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413Company 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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1.7KEnvisioning 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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437‘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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503Kimberly 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...
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536‘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®...
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708Boston 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...
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903Back 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...
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512Gibney 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...
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1.2KThe 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...
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579Paul 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,...
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506Artists 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....
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423Understated 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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642Fox 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,...
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623Island 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...
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1.3KDimitris 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...
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541Aesthetic 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...
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432Choose 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...
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678Gisèle 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...
