Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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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...
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1.2KSpring on the way: Martha Graham Dance Company’s Fall 2021 Season at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.October 31, 2021. I sat in my seat at the Joyce Theater, my first time back in...
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1.1KWelcome to Campfire’s ‘SUBJECT’: The depths of humanity in unimaginable circumstances
Memredux Laboratories, New York, NY. November 9, 2021. In SUBJECT, produced by Welcome to Campfire, sparse, concrete space surrounds a brightly fluorescent lit glass-walled...
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1.1KCohesive meaning in the abstract: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Continuing Points’
Woodman Arts and Community Center, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI.October 24, 2021. Abstraction comes with compelling mystery; sometimes the answers are more...
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1.0KThe spirits of places: Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s ‘Initiation — In Love Solidarity’
Harvard Smith Center, Cambridge, MA, and via livestream.October 21, 2021. Wind rustling through leaves, the smell of saltwater at the seashore, the...
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1.2KIt takes a village: Island Moving Company’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘La Palomba/Ascending’
October 17, 2021.The Lawn at Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a live performance....
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2.3KThe conviction and commitment of artists using their platform: Artists Climate Collective’s ‘Art to Action’
Available through artistsclimatecollective.org. August 31-September 28, 2021. Artists naturally have a platform; they can speak through their work. Some use that platform to...
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1.5KDance diving deep into the stories of history: Rachel Linsky’s ‘Hidden’
Virtual premiere via Zoom.September 12, 2021. Tense muscles, heavy bones, churning and rumbling stomachs, heads swimming with pain and nausea: deprivation, psychosocial...
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1.3KBack to basics: ‘A Few Premieres’ at Arts on Site
August 8, 2021.Arts on Site, New York, NY. The rustle of bare feet across Marley, unadorned costumes, the energetic sensations of a...
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1.1KOpposites intersecting and interacting: Dan Safer’s ‘COLLISION SHOP’
Premiered May 7, 2021.Available at collisionshop.org. If asked, you might not think that dance and technology are natural partners. Yet, innovative dance...
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1.7KMaking the best of constraints and challenges: Newport Dance Festival 2021
The lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 20-25, 2021. As was the case with most dance events last year,...
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1.3KNozama Dance Collective’s ‘N2’: Nimble Pivots
Mass Motion Dance, Brighton, MA.July 23, 2021. “Pivot”, in the metaphorical sense of shifting course to adapt — it’s become a bit...
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1.2KRevealing the people behind the artists: ALMA NYC’s ‘PLACES: A Look Behind the Curtain’
July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. Sirens blaring, the streets eerily empty, the smell of hand sanitizer and disinfectant in the air, the...
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1.5KThe third annual ‘Empower One Another’: Empowerment through having a voice and a choice
July 23-July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. One might think that artists having a voice is just something that naturally happens. Art involves...
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1.1K‘Embodied Activism’: The body persisting
Outside of the St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, NY (also unlisted on YouTube).Earth Day 2021 (March 22, 2021). When...
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2.7KDare to Dance in Public’s ‘Pandemania’, Program B: Finding joy and ease amidst difficulty
Streaming from daretodanceinpublic.com.June 25-July 1, 2021. The dancers I love watching most blend ease and effort, flow and structure, mobility and stability....
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2.4KDance going deep inside: The Moving Architects’ ‘Loneland’
Premiered June 3, 2021.Streaming via YouTube. Dance is an abstract art form; the meaning or creative inspiration behind a particular work might...
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2.3KFestival Ballet Providence’s ‘Emergence’: A bold return
The University Orthopedics Stage, Providence, RI.June 18, 2021. Live performances are popping up in locations all over the U.S., following adjusted CDC...
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3.7KMoving in the space between: VLA Dance’s ‘In the Space Between’
Livestreamed from the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.June 20, 2021. Up or down, black or white, left or right, now...
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1.5KPeter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion’s ‘Postcards From the Front’: Stories of those of too often forgotten
Available at www.publicdisplaysofmotion.com/postcards-from-the-front.html.Full program premiered on March 23, 2021. COVID has surfaced questions about who and whose stories we value — or...
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1.3KContinuum Dance Project’s ‘Crossings’: Dance telling unheard stories
Livestreamed from Pao Arts Center, Boston, MA.June 5, 2021. “History is written by the victors,” goes the old saying. One could argue...
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1.7KBoston Ballet’s ‘Process and Progress’: A capstone program
Available through www.bostonballet.org.May 12-26, 2021. The 2020-21 season has been anything but easy for dance companies. Yet, in their own ways, they’ve found...
