Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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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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996The 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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2.2KThe 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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2.6KDare 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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2.3KDance 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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2.2KFestival 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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3.6KMoving 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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1.4KPeter 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...
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2.1KAbilities Dance Boston’s ‘Firebird’: A fairytale recontextualized
Livestreamed from the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston, MA.April 13, 2021. Fairy tales are a key part of conventional childhood, and — as such...
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1.3KAmerican Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Ritual’ and ‘Visceral Harmonies’: Continuing to come together and create
Available to stream through abt.org and YouTube. How the dance world has moved forward through COVID is complex and layered. Yet, simply put, despite all...
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1.3KAmerican Ballet Theatre is ‘Uniting in Movement’ with contemporary works
Streamed on-demand on Segerstrom Center for the Arts’s website.May 12, 2021. American Ballet Theatre (ABT)’s Uniting in Movement is proof that the legendary company has...
