Dance Informa Magazine
Reviews – USA
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1.1KAesthetic unity: San Francisco Ballet’s ‘Program 05’
Streamed through sfballet.tv.April 26-May 6, 2021. A uniquely special thing about dance art can be the way aesthetic elements come together —...
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1.1KJoffrey Ballet’s Winning Works Festival: What diverse voices bring
Streaming on YouTube.Released on March 25, 2021. Reflecting the society in which it resides, the dance world has been having wide-ranging conversations...
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985Island Moving Company’s ‘Return to Live’: Deep, thoughtful art
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 6, 2021. Returning to live performance — these days, it’s a development that can make dancers and...
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1.3KMiriam Barbosa returns to the theater in ‘Transcending’ at New York Live Arts
Streamed from New York Live Arts, New York, NY.May 2, 2021. Miriam Barbosa, previously a principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company,...
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1.6KOnStage Dance Company’s ‘Season 20’: Not on stage but still dancing
April 16-May 10, 2021.Accessible through the company’s website. Moving together in the stage lights, feeling the energy of your castmates and the...
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1.6KGetting back to an essence: New York City Ballet in Kyle Abraham’s ‘When We Fell’
April 8, 2021.On YouTube, as part of New York City Ballet’s digital season. In the quiet of solitude, with all of the noise...
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3.1KRecontextualizing legacy and versatility: New York City Ballet’s ‘Three Sides of Balanchine’
Thursday March 4th, 11th, and 18th at 8 PM.Streamed on YouTube as part of NYCB’s Digital Season. George Balanchine — the artist...
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1.9KArt for the times: Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Black is Beautiful’ Part I
Premiered February 3, 2021.Available through Facebook and YouTube. “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times,” Nina Simone once said. Issues of...
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1.6KThe clarity of a surrealistic mirror: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Rena Butler’s ‘A Tale of Two’
Released October 2020.Accessible through hubbardstreetdance.com. It’s commonly said — “art is a mirror”, reflecting ourselves and our world back at us so...
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1.4KWe still have each other: Island Moving Company’s ‘Together in this Dream — Dancing Through the Digital Divide’
March 6, 2021.Streamed live from The Gamm Theater. COVID has us not able to hug certain loved ones, precluded from breaking bread...
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1.8KAesthetic and atmosphere: San Francisco Ballet’s Digital Program 03
March 4-24, 2021.Accessible through www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home. Just about all dance artists have the experience of a dance really becoming what it is in...
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1.5KIndividual kinetic experience: ‘Wandering’ dance film
February 15, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. The sound of breath and feet scraping against the ground, the feeling of kinetic energy and authentic...
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11.4KNow and then: Boston Ballet’s ‘Celebrating Jorma Elo’
February 25-March 7.Through bostonballet.org/bbatyourhome. Dance doesn’t exist in a vacuum, evidently enough; what came before is either a foundation or something to...
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3.9KReinvigorating an old tale: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’
February 11-15, 2021.Vimeo.com, via pacificnorthwestballet.org. Romeo and Juliet is an infamous play known across the English speaking-world: read in high schools, performed...
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2.1KArt as a mirror: Hive Creative Company’s ‘Seek’
January 31, 2021.Through vimeo.com. Art can act as a mirror, they say. How so? It can make us ask questions, and see...
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2.0K‘Beautiful Moments’ from Abilities Dance Boston artists of the University of Peradeniya: Dancing across borders
January 30, 2021.Steamed on YouTube. In more ways than one, dance can transcend. One of the most meaningful of those ways is...
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2.2KLimón Dance Company at Kaatsbaan: Time is of the essence
December 19, 2020.Streaming to YouTube from Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY. An interesting theme in the ether this hard year has been...
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2.0KA young girl’s journey: Island Moving Company’s ‘Through Her Eyes – A Newport Nutcracker Reimagined’
December 10, 2020-January 3, 2021.Rhode Island PBS and through an online portal on islandmovingco.org. There’s a really special aspect of the iconic...
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2.2KBoston Ballet’s ‘The Gift’: Redefining traditions
December 17-27, 2020.Accessible through BB@yourhome. They say there’s a first for everything, and — as years go — 2020 was a first...
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2.0K2020 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Virtual Season: Dance for troubled times
December 2-31, 2020.Accessible through www.alvinailey.org/performances-tickets/virtual-winter-season/watch-now. For over 60 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has presented dance art that uplifts, inspires, educates...
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2.6KKinetic Light’s ‘DESCENT’: Aesthetic harmony, tension and ‘reckless abandon’
December 3-5, 2020.Via University of Minnesota’s Northrop, co-presented by Walker Art Center. Humans began to dance to connect with the natural world...
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2.8KSan Francisco Ballet’s virtual ‘The Nutcracker’: Returning to joy and connection
November 27-December 31, 2020.Accessible through sfballet.org. Music swells. Rhinestones shine. Glittery snow falls across stagelights. The scent of flowers for the dancers...
