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All posts tagged "Reviews"
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565ReviewsBoston 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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756ReviewsAlison 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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501ReviewsAbilities 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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550ReviewsMusic 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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584ReviewsSasha 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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700Reviews‘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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781ReviewsMark 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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920ReviewsIsland 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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645ReviewsArmitage 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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639Reviewsmignolo 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...
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656ReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘ChoreograpHER’: Steps toward change
CitiBank Opera House, Boston, MA.March 6, 2022. “Actions speak louder than words,” goes the old saying. In recent years the world has...
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726ReviewsDance that thinks globally, acts locally: NACHMO Boston 2022
Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA.February 22, 2022. An amazing thing about dance (among many amazing things) is its universality; there are...
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1.1KReviewsFestival Ballet Providence’s ‘Up Close on Hope’ and ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’: Dance bringing hope far and wide
Festival Ballet Providence’s Black Box Theater, Providence, RI.February 13, 2022. Lord knows that we could all use a little hope these days....
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953ReviewsKyle Abraham’s ‘An Untitled Love’: Embodying black excellence
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.February 23, 2022. Kyle Abraham’s piece, An Untitled Love, made its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy...
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973ReviewsOnStage Dance Company ‘Season 21’: A peek behind the camera
Capitol Theater Building, Arlington, MA (and streaming via OnStagedanceco.com).Film screenings January 9-11, and digital program streaming January 9. We all know and...
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1.2KReviewsDoron Perk’s ‘Grandfather Visit’: Dancing the deeply personal
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY (and streaming).October 14, 2021, and via YouTube. Right from the opening credits of Doron Perk’s Grandfather...
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862ReviewsThe march of time through confined space: Rourou Ye’s ‘May I dance on your screen?’
Streaming online at digitaldance.space.Premiered October 31, 2021. Life happens in both time and space, and so does dance. In both life and dance,...
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1.0KReviewsAbilities Dance Boston and ‘Titian: Women, Myth & Power’: The stories behind the movement
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.November 5, 2021. Art tells human stories. That’s a pretty obvious and universally accepted statement. Yet,...
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1.2KReviewsRe-envisioning a tradition: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘The Nutcracker’
The Vets Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.December 19, 2021. The Nutcracker, although younger than many story ballets, is quite a classic. Given its...
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1.2KReviewsThe treasure of tradition: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2021 City Center Season
New York City Center, New York, NY.December 8, 2021. Walking through the streets of Manhattan on my way to take in Alvin...
