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3.9KReviewsReinvigorating 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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2.1KReviewsArt 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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2.0KReviews‘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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2.2KReviewsLimón 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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2.0KReviewsA 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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2.2KReviewsBoston 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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2.0KReviews2020 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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2.6KReviewsKinetic 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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2.8KReviewsSan 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...
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2.7KReviewsBallet moving forward and RISE-ing: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Future Starts Today’
November 23, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. At times, dance has been at the forefront of social change and innovation. At other times, we’ve...
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2.6KReviewsNozama Dance Collective’s ‘An Allyship Project’: In a tradition of mobilizing body, heart and mind
November 14, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. Dance art has a tradition of outspokenness and direct action when it comes to social and political...
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2.3KReviews‘Forsythe Elements’ in Boston Ballet’s BB@yourhome: Questioning what ballet and performance can be
November 19-29, 2020.Streamed on bostonballet.org through subscription. I remember the first time I saw a William Forsythe work. It was obviously ballet,...
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2.3KReviews‘Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter’: An Akram Khan film
November 13, 2020.Available to watch on All4. Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter documents Akram Khan’s foray into a field that dancers...
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3.0KReviewsAn encounter with Batsheva: Ohad Naharin’s ‘YAG: The Movie’
November 21, 2020.Filmed October 2020, at Batsheva’s Varda Studio, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. Presented online. YAG: The Movie, Ohad Naharin’s first...
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1.9KReviewsNew York City Ballet’s New Works Festival: The energy of space
October 27-31, 2020. Streaming online, filmed in the Lincoln Center Plaza and other sites in New York City. Lincoln Center: there’s a...
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3.7KReviewsThe courage of committing to concept: ‘Dancing Through…’ from Theatre Dance Vietnam
October 30, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Most of the dance works that truly resonate with me do so because of a strong concept,...
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2.2KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Out of Ruin’ and ‘Emerge’: Art bringing people together again
Cardines Field, Newport, RI; Blithewold Mansion, Bristol, RI.October 2, and October 9, 2020. A special thing about live art is how it...
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2.1KReviewsThe worlds of ballet, hip hop and tap unite on stage in CLI Studios’ ‘A New Stage’
October 16, 2020.Online on CLI Studios. CLI studios (founded by tWitch and Allison Holker) released its first-ever virtual performance this weekend, starring...
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1.9KReviews‘Floodstream’ in the Shawna Shea Film Festival Shorts Fest: Dancing to commemorate
October 10, 2020.On Vimeo via the Shawna Shea Film Festival “Shorts Fest”. Humans have danced to honor those who’ve left us, from...
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1.7KReviewsThe Indo-American Arts Council’s Erasing Borders Dance Festival: Finding unexpected treasures
September 21-27, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. As a dance writer and someone deeply steeped in many different dance sub-communities, I hear about a...
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1.8KReviewsGiving artists a voice, virtually: The 2nd annual ‘Empower One Another’
September 26-28, 2020.Online at onstagedanceco.com. A meaningful thing about the arts is how it can give people a voice, a space to...
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1.8KReviewsLess is more, especially now: Pizarts’ quarantine dance film ‘Red Between the Lines’
September 17, 2020. Online via The Social Distancing Festival. “Less is more” is an old maxim in art (and in life); humans...
