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All posts tagged "dance review"
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3.9KReviewsArch Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Between the Lines’: Draw outside your own!
The Sheen Center, New York, NY. November 17, 2017. It can be so easy to stay in one’s comfort zone. It can...
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4.8KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’ reminds us of the magic
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island November 26, 2017. As children, we crave magic. We are easily enchanted as we discover more and...
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4.8KReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’: The grandeur of warmth
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. November 24, 2017. When it comes to art, there are so many ways we can define “grand”,...
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8.7KReviewsComplexions Contemporary Ballet delights in Dwight Rhoden’s David Bowie ballet
The Joyce Theater, New York, New York. November 21, 2017. This is a beautiful company. It’s not necessarily diverse in the usual...
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4.4KReviewsVincent E. Thomas’ ‘What’s Going On’: What actions will we take?
Dance Place, Washington, D.C. November 18, 2017 Dance Place, a much-beloved part of the D.C. area dance scene, was buzzing with excitement...
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3.3KReviewsCallie Chapman’s dance-theater work ‘SCALE’ is innovative and visually astounding
Studio at 550, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 27, 2017. “Ballet is woman,” said George Balanchine. Yet as he proclaimed this, at the helm...
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3.0KReviewsComing together through dance: Joanie Block and Dancers’ ‘Emerge’
Green Street Studio Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 14, 2017. Long-standing conflicts between prominent groups of people are more than what we can...
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5.1KReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘Obsidian Tear’: Dancing away from the pack
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. November 3, 2017. The tension between the will of the individual and that of the group is...
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5.2KReviews‘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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7.7KReviewsAl 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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3.9KReviewsWomen 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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3.5KReviewsTap 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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4.6KReviewsIsland 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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8.7KReviewsNew 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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5.5KReviewsThird 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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4.7KReviewsArch 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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3.8KReviewsDancing 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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4.9KReviewsGotta 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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9.3KReviewsNozama 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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3.7KReviewsKAIROS 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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6.3KReviewsMOMIX 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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6.0KReviewsAmerican 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...
