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771ReviewsImmersed in sound and movement: Revolve Dance Project’s 2022 Season
The Jane Pickens Theater, Newport, RI.July 31, 2022. The summer night I enjoyed Revolve Dance Project’s 2022 Season program was one of...
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1.3KReviewsMusical and dance sensation ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ makes its NYC debut after 24 years
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.July 16, 2022. Premiering in 1998, the French mega-hit musical, Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre...
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1.3KReviewsWhat live art can offer: Paul Taylor Dance Company at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.June 19, 2022. What is live art for, anyway: for entertainment, for catharsis, for provocation to action, for...
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955ReviewsThe eclectic and bold vision of a new dancemaker generation: The 11th Young Choreographer’s Festival
Symphony Space, New York, NY.June 18, 2022. Generation Z is rejecting a whole lot of what (they think) doesn’t serve them and...
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597ReviewsA kaleidoscope of style and choreographic voice: OnStage Dance Company’s Season 22 Performance
Boston University Dance Theater (and via onstagedanceco.com).May 7, 2022. Boston-based OnStage Dance Company always offers a smorgasbord of styles and artistic approaches...
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479ReviewsBody Stories: Teresa Fellion Dance and Kristin Hatleberg in ‘Take Root’: The dynamic meditation of dance art
Green Space, Queens, NY (and via Vimeo).April 8, 2022. “Mindfulness” is a buzzword of the modern world, as society explores different ways...
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923ReviewsDancing again: Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates its 50th anniversary
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. May 28, 2022. Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrated its 50th anniversary (delayed two years due to Covid)...
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462ReviewsEnglish National Ballet in Akram Khan’s ‘Giselle’: An epic and contemporary take on the classic
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.June 8, 2022. In Akram Khan’s version of the classical story ballet for English National Ballet, rather...
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669ReviewsLive art for the here and now: Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project 2022
Festival Ballet Providence Black Box Theater, Providence, RI.May 22, 2022. I took my seat to take in Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project’s...
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956ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Resonant Visions’: Dance for many purposes, in many places
Keats Theater, Barrington, RI.May 7, 2022. I was walking to a dance performance, and not through the sort of surroundings that are...
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582ReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘MINDscape’: Beyond outside the lines
Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA.May 15, 2022. “Draw outside the lines,” they tell aspiring artists: an encouragement to find a unique...
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815ReviewsAlison Cook Beatty Dance in ‘Artists in Motion Mini 2022’: The drama of music and movement
KnJ Theater at Peridance Center, New York, NY.March 12, 2022. A big reach on a swelling upbeat, a vivavious group section with...
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516ReviewsAbilities Dance Boston’s ‘Intersections’: Art for local action
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.April 24, 2022. Art to spur social change isn’t anything new, and certainly not new to the work...
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567ReviewsMusic painted with moving bodies: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Blue Until June’
The Woodman Family and Cultural Center, Providence, RI.April 30, 2022. ”Dance is music made visible,” affirmed George Balanchine. Some dance artists would...
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605ReviewsSasha Waltz & Guests’ ‘In C’: Giving freedom to the individual
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.April 29, 2022. Inspired by Terry Riley’s In C, Sasha Waltz & Guests’ dance piece of the same...
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724Reviews‘The Little Prince’ on Broadway: Visual poetry
Broadway Theater, New York, NY.April 9, 2022. Theater whisks us away into another world. In The Little Prince on Broadway, the audience is whisked...
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1.2KReviewsThe people behind the movements, illustrated in movement and beyond: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s social justice video series
Released monthly from March 2022.Available at dtsbco.org. People marching together, signs in hand and chants coming deep from their belly: these are...
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800ReviewsMark Morris’ ‘L’Allegro’: In the space of timelessness
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.March 25, 2022. Mark Morris choreographed L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato in 1988, in Brussels at age 32. Since...
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1.1KReviewsMotion State Arts’s 2022 Motion State Dance Festival: Art to provoke thought and inspire
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.March 9-12, 2022. I (very happily) committed to review the 2022 Motion State Dance Festival, and it was...
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939ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Masterful Movers’ 40th Anniversary Gala: Celebratory spectacle and excellence
Veterans Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.March 11, 2022. Booming music and soulful dance resonating into your flesh and bones: there’s nothing quite like...
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663ReviewsArmitage Gone! Dance’s ‘A Pandemic Notebook’: Making bold choices
New York Live Arts, New York, NY.March 19, 2022. Armitage Gone! Dance’s A Pandemic Notebook is a series of short works that brings together...
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654Reviewsmignolo dance’s ‘Visitor Parking’: A well-constructed tour through mental illness
Gardenship Art, Kearny, NJ.December 10, 2021. For those who crave the delights that a given art form is uniquely in a position to...
