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All posts tagged "Reviews"
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180ReviewsAccessibility and artistry in action: Ballet Rhode Island’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and 2025 ‘Made on Hope’
Ballet RI Blackbox Theater, Providence, RI.February 23, 2025. “I like contemporary dance, but when I see it I don’t really know what’s...
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230ReviewsHerman Cornejo takes on century old ballet ‘Anima Animal’
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.February 18, 2025. Herman Cornejo takes on a century old ballet that never quite came to fruition...
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166ReviewsJoy is the thing: OnStage Dance Company’s Season 27 Performance
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA.January 18, 2025 (viewed virtually). A wide smile, an expansive reach, a sassy shoulder roll. These can...
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204ReviewsDance on Camera Festival 2025: Dance film persisting
Symphony Space, New York, NY.February 21-24, 2025, viewed via press screeners. The world locked down in early 2020 – yet dance artists...
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224ReviewsCultural sharing and joyous community: Malpaso Dance Company through Celebrity Series of Boston
The Emerson Paramount Center, Boston, MA.January 18, 2025. Cuba: a nation that many know as holding a culture vibrant and resilient, yet...
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238ReviewsDowntown dance made accessible: Inclined Dance Project’s ‘inQUAD’ 2024
JACK, Brooklyn, NY (viewed virtually).December 6 and 7, 2024. Concert dance has arguably grappled with a “niche” dynamic: various forces driving it...
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306ReviewsAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater in new works for 2024-25 season
New York City Center, New York, NY.December 17, 2024. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater settled into their annual winter month-long season at...
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210ReviewsNaturalism in magical realism: Ballet RI’s 2024 ‘The Nutcracker’
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI.December 21, 2024, 1pm. “Acting is behaving realistically under imaginary circumstances”: an adage I still remember from a...
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301ReviewsKyle Abraham’s ‘Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful’: A tapestry of humanity
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY.December 14, 2024. Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful…Kyle Abraham poses this request in his latest work, presented...
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301ReviewsNew York City Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’: The magic of Christmas still delights
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.December 12, 2024. The Nutcracker, one of the most...
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404ReviewsAmericana in motion: Martha Graham Dance Company through Celebrity Series of Boston
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, MA.November 23, 2024. Some call Martha Graham the “mother of modern dance.” Scholars and dance enthusiasts may...
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268ReviewsThird Rail Projects: True love… forever?
ART X NYC, New York, NY.November 22, 2024. Have you ever fallen in love? How long did it last? How did things...
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293ReviewsPaul Taylor Dance Company: Standing the test of time
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.November 8, 2024. Paul Taylor Dance Company performed its 2024 season at the David H. Koch...
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281ReviewsDancing duality: Boston Ballet’s Fall Experience 2024
Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA.November 3, 2024. I took my seat at the Boston Opera House for Boston Ballet’s Fall Experience,...
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276ReviewsInspiration from anywhere: Ballet RI’s ‘Art & Literature Meet Ballet’
The Woodman Family Community and Performance Center, Providence, RI.November 1, 2024. The gentle slope of a fruit in a still life, a...
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189ReviewsThe strength of unity – Newport Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Mosaic: Puzzles of Love and Connection’
The Elks Lodge, Newport, RI.October 20, 2024. The magic of concert dance can lie in dancers filling a stage, releasing and regaining...
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243ReviewsThe poignant through the unconventional: Tristian Griffin Dance Company’s ‘The Unexpected: Within the Red Lines’
The Gem Theater, Kansas City, MO.August 10, 2024 (viewed virtually). Spinning top turns, leaps in full flight, impossibly fast and complex gestures…that...
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226ReviewsPaul Taylor Dance Company Gala: Dance portraying human emotion
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.November 6, 2024. “Love, resilience, guts, generosity and expansion” were the themes of the night at...
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257ReviewsDual Rivet in ‘Subscript’: Intellectual movement intention
The 92nd Street Y, New York, NY.October 18, 2024. Dual Rivet, the contemporary company directed by Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith, performed...
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206ReviewsThe arts as part of the conversation in vildwerk.’s inaugural season
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.October 15, 2024. vildwerk. premiered its inaugural season on October 15th and 16th at the El...
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284ReviewsBalletX at The Joyce: Variety and intellectualism
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.September 28, 2024. BalletX, the contemporary ballet company based in Philadelphia, performed a five-day run at the...
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278ReviewsA night at Fall for Dance Festival is an evening of world-class dance
New York City Center, New York, NY.September 21, 2024. In the NYC dance world, nothing signifies the change from summer to autumn...
