Boston University, Boston, MA.December 1, 2023 (viewed via livestream and recorded video). Nozama Dance Collective has always been bold and taken risks....
The Foundry, Cambridge, MA.January 21, 2024. Childhood birthday parties, red Solo cup parties of an older age, preteen girls learning to use...
Congregation Kehillath Israel (viewed virtually).November 9, 2023. In Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (certainly a 2023 mega blockbuster), America Ferrera’s character proposes “Regular Barbie”:...
The Strand Theatre (viewed via YouTube).November 3, 2023. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King One could argue that, at...
The Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA.December 3, 2023. I settled into my seat in the balcony and scanned the packed house....
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.November 14, 2023. Complexions Contemporary Ballet, the brainchild of Dwight Rhoden (former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 22, 2023. “Magic”. Maybe we think of fairies, elves, Santa Claus and any other number of mythical beings....
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI.November 18, 2023. Kathleen Pletcher, the Executive Artistic Director of FirstWorks RI, introduced the work about to take...
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA.December 5, 2023. The iconic Tony Award-winning musical Annie has made its way to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. The National...
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.November 4, 2023. The Paul Taylor Dance Company’s 2023 and 11th season at the...
Book: Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A MemoirAuthor: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, University of New Mexico Press, September 2022. Good...
New York City Center, New York, NY.October 20, 2023. New York City Center’s Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival opened...
Woodman Family and Community Arts Center, Providence, RI.October 15, 2023. Baroque notes rang through the theater, and the curtain rose on dancers...
CitiBank Opera House, Boston, MA.October 8, 2023. As a critic, my late summer comes with investigating and anticipating my favorite companies’ imminent...
The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, Boston, MA.September 10, 2023. A former mentor once said, critiquing a review of mine,...
Arts On Site, New York, NY.October 1, 2023. mignolo dance presented a diverse evening of dance works at Arts On Site on...
Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, Canada.September 8, 2023. Dance Informa attended a dance industry event in Vancouver, Canada that showed exactly how the city...
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.June 22, 2023.(Viewed via Vimeo at a later date.) Part of me has always questioned the...
The Lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 22, 2023. One could say that dancing for an audience is an...
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.August 12, 2023. Dance happens in time, in space — kinetic action happening in a space, in...
Book: Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to DanceAuthor: Mark Mann, Rizzoli International Publications, March 2023. “At the still point of...
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.July 29, 2023. For the past three years, the reigning giants of the ballet...