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2.2KReviewsNederlands Dans Theater’s ‘The Missing Door’ goes beyond the entertainment
New York City Center, New York, NY.March 6, 2020. Under the guidance of Director/House Choreographer Paul Lightfoot and Artistic Advisor/House Choreographer Sol...
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2.5KReviewsIlluminating innovation in Arch Ballet’s winter 2020 season
The Sheen Center for Culture and Innovation, New York, NY.February 20, 2020. Aesthetic and meaning — memorable art achieves something in both...
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1.7KReviewsA split bill of split approaches and qualities: Annalee Traylor and Project 44 in ‘Take Root’
Green Space, Queens, NY.February 8, 2020. Sometimes art juxtaposed with other art can reveal what all of that art really is; contrast...
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4.2KReviewsAmanda Selwyn Dance Theatre celebrates 20 years with ‘Hindsight’
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY.March 6, 2020. Hindsight marks 20 years of dancing for Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre. An accumulation of...
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3.5KReviewsWilliam Forsythe: ‘A Quiet Evening of Dance’
The Griffin Theater at The Shed, New York, NY.October 13, 2019. William Forsythe is arguably the most important living choreographer to advance...
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3.0KReviewsOnStage Dance Company’s Season 18 Performance: The power of concept
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, Massachusetts. January 25, 2020. Concept — it can set dance art apart from movement, make it relevant,...
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4.0KReviewsDana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s ‘A Tribute to Marian Anderson’: Harmonic motion
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.February 3, 2020. Resistance can come in the form of quiet, graceful strength — in persistence,...
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2.2KReviewsSara Juli’s ‘Burnt-Out Wife’ doesn’t dance around the issue
Dixon Place, New York, NY.February 28, 2020. Sara Juli’s one-woman show, Burnt-Out Wife, is a dance-, song- and comedy-based conversation about the expectations and...
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3.2KReviewsMatthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ is worth the wait
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.January 22, 2020. Just last January, I made my way to the...
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2.7KReviewsAyalis in Motion’s ‘Pythagorean Peas’: Mysticism, love and more in movement
New York Live Arts, New York, NY. January 19, 2020. Myth, legend, love, loss — these big themes are part of cultural tradition,...
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2.7KReviewsAlmaNYC’s ‘YELLOW’: Community and connection in movement
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.January 18, 2020. Dance can hit us viscerally — right down to the bone. The reason why...
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2.2KReviewsLaugh now, feel now, move now: DANCE NOW’s Dance-mopolitan Encore Series
Joe’s Pub, New Yor, NY.January 11, 2020. Dance art with authentic humor and heart truly stays with me — I feel it,...
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1.9KReviewsGibney’s POP Performance: Women in Motion
The Theater at Gibney, New York, NY.January 30, 2020. Dance Informa sat down to see the Women in Motion commissions of 2020...
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3.9KReviewsComplexions Contemporary Ballet does what the company does well
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.January 22, 2020. Complexions Contemporary Ballet, now in its 26th year, remains one of the leading contemporary ballet...
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3.8KReviewsSidi Larbi Cherkaoui brings it all together in ‘Jagged Little Pill’
Broadhurst Theatre, New York, NY.January 21, 2020. A jukebox musical tends to fall into one of two categories: telling the life story...
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3.6KReviewsA Nutcracker for 2019: CONNetic Dance’s 10th anniversary ‘Nutcracker Suite and Spicy’
Aetna Atheneum Theater, Hartford, Connecticut.December 22, 2019. Every so often, dance lovers can find a gem of a dance company in an...
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4.5KReviewsMoving through different worlds, in one world: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center, New York, NY. December 6, 2019. Sophisticated, thoughtful dance art — and programming of its presentation — can take...
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3.5KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘A Newport Nutcracker’: Where the magic meets the realism
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI. November 27, 2019. Like ballet at large, a big part of The Nutcracker‘s allure is the space where magic...
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2.3KReviewsKAIROS Dance Theater’s ‘OBJECT.’: Multiple meanings moved out
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.November 17, 2019. The multiplicity in KAIROS Dance Theater’s OBJECT. starts about as early as possible,...
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1.6KReviews’32 rue Vandenbranden’: Bewildering beauty
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.November 22, 2019. Peeping Tom’s 32 rue Vandenbranden ran from November 20-23, at the Harvey Theater as part...
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1.9KReviewsDimitris Papaioannou’s ‘The Great Tamer’: Corpse and corpus
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.November 15, 2019. The Great Tamer made its New York debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard...
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2.5KReviewsSerendipitous, humorous and existential: Big Dance Theater’s ‘The Road Awaits Us’
NYU Skirball Theater, New York, NY. November 8, 2019. As a dance reviewer who sees a good deal of work, I’m often pleasantly...
