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All posts tagged "Reviews"
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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...
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2.1KReviews‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Mignolo Dance and The Moving Architects
September 26, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the second act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...
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2.0KReviewsDANCE NOW’s 25th Anniversary virtual performances: All that art is worth
September 10, 2020.DANCE NOW’s web platform. A lot can happen in 25 years — particularly in the arts; it’s a bit mind...
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1.5KReviews‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company presents a collection of quarantine art
September 19, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the first act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...
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2.1KReviews‘Dance of Dreams’ from San Francisco Ballet and Benjamin Millepied: Art as escape
Streaming on YouTube. What are two main things that people want right now? Freedom of movement and human contact, I’ll say. San...
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1.6KReviewsJacob’s Pillow 2020 Virtual Summer Festival, Part II: ‘And still you must swing’
August 27, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. The final performance of Jacob’s Pillow’s two-month virtual Summer Festival, a festival that met the moment and...
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1.6KReviewsJacob’s Pillow 2020 Virtual Summer Festival, Part I: Meeting the moment
July and August 2020, Thursday evenings.Streamed on YouTube. As a dance reviewer, seeing dance live is one of the most treasured parts...
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2.5KReviewsFinding community and possibility, from the stage to the screen: 2020 Virtual Boston Contemporary Dance Festival
August 15, 2020.Virtually over Zoom. Each year, the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival (BCDF) offers a space for dance artists and dance enthusiasts...
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3.9KReviewsOuter and inner: ‘Where in Newport is Island Moving Company?’
Four Thursday afternoons in July and August.Various parks in Newport, RI. Live dance performance has an unparalleled, ephemeral magic. Part of that...
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1.8KReviewsSteps and leaps forward: Lonnie Stanton and Dancers’ ‘Redirect and Progress’
Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts.July 18, 2020. There’s something uniquely magnetic about site-specific dance work, even by the standards of this exceptionally ephemeral...
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1.4KReviews‘Liquidus’: Tabula Rasa Dance Theater presents four dancers sheltering in place in New York City
July 25, 2020.Online, on YouTube. During the COVID pandemic, nine of the dancers of the Tabula Rasa Dance Theater company became sick...
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1.9KReviewsDallas Black Dance Theatre’s live ‘Petit Performance’ brings art online
July 10, 2020.Online – www.dbdt.com. Art in the time of corona is all about finding ways to connect with your community online....
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3.7KReviewsMartha Graham Dance Company reimagines lost solo ‘Immediate Tragedy’
June 19, 2020. Online, on YouTube. On June 19, for the first time since 1937, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed a reimagining...
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2.4KReviewsNYCB Digital Spring Season: The show must go on
March, April and May 2020.Online (YouTube and Facebook, through www.nycballet.com) It’s sort of striking to think how years of planning can change...
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2.2KReviewsPerformance Mix Festival, Online: ‘Remotely Yours’
May 2020.Online at newdancealliance.org. Pandemic times mean that in-person dance festivals are absolutely out of the question. Rather than fully give into...
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2.8KReviewsConcert dance living on, online with Island Moving Company’s ‘Great Dance in Great Places’
Newport, Rhode Island’s premier contemporary ballet company, Island Moving Company (IMC), has always been inventive and resourceful; without a consistent “home-base” theater;...
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2.5KReviewsDancing to feel free: Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Cultivate’
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.March 13, 2020 Dancing can make us feel free — free in our body and free to be...
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2.6KReviewsClassicism and modernism in conversation: Brooklyn Ballet’s ‘Revisionist History II’
The Actors Fund Theater, Brooklyn, NY.February 13, 2020. In this post-postmodern age, both the modern and the classical are celebrated and critiqued....
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2.4KReviewsBallet Nepantla melds Mexican history with outstanding artistry in ‘Valentina’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.March 13, 2020. Ballet Nepantla Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo describes Valentina as telling “the untold history of the Adelitas,...
