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All posts tagged "Reviews"
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4.9KReviewsLess can truly be more: Island Moving Company’s 20th annual ‘A Newport Nutcracker’ at Rosecliff
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 24, 2021. Clichés become clichés for a reason; however trite they come to feel, they contain a nugget...
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1.9KReviewsWhat’s changed and what hasn’t: Boston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’ 2021
Citizens Bank Boston Opera House, Boston, MA.November 28, 2021. As live performances have returned to theaters this year, many questions have lingered...
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1.6KReviews‘Visitor Parking’ by mignolo dance: A multimedia piece exploring mental health
Gardenship Art, Kearny, NJ.December 11, 2021. Visitor Parking by mignolo dance allows audiences to walk in the footsteps of a patient navigating a...
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1.3KReviewsParsons Dance at The Joyce: Something new under the sun
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.December 9, 2021. When I requested to review Parsons Dance – meaning that I’d see the company live for...
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1.5KReviewsA kaleidoscopic final bow: DANCE NOW’s Fall 2021 digital program
Streaming November 4-30, 2021.Available via dancenow.org. On October 28, 2021, the DANCE NOW board and founders announced the difficult decision to cease...
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1.3KReviewsBig Dance Theater’s ‘The Mood Room’: A world we don’t want to live in
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.December 2, 2021. For all its colorful chit-chat, The Mood Room presents a remarkably one-dimensional, insular world organized by...
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1.1KReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘reSTART’: Pleasant dance for tough times
October 28-November 7, 2021.Available through BB at Home. For not the first time since March 2020, I logged on to watch a...
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1.9KReviewsSoulfulness in motion: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Fall 2021 All Access Season
Various premiere dates.Available streaming at Ailey All Access. Movement has the potential to convey soulfulness — the strength and resilience, the depths...
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1.2KReviewsSpring on the way: Martha Graham Dance Company’s Fall 2021 Season at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.October 31, 2021. I sat in my seat at the Joyce Theater, my first time back in...
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1.1KReviewsWelcome to Campfire’s ‘SUBJECT’: The depths of humanity in unimaginable circumstances
Memredux Laboratories, New York, NY. November 9, 2021. In SUBJECT, produced by Welcome to Campfire, sparse, concrete space surrounds a brightly fluorescent lit glass-walled...
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1.1KReviewsCohesive meaning in the abstract: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Continuing Points’
Woodman Arts and Community Center, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI.October 24, 2021. Abstraction comes with compelling mystery; sometimes the answers are more...
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991ReviewsThe spirits of places: Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s ‘Initiation — In Love Solidarity’
Harvard Smith Center, Cambridge, MA, and via livestream.October 21, 2021. Wind rustling through leaves, the smell of saltwater at the seashore, the...
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1.2KReviewsIt takes a village: Island Moving Company’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘La Palomba/Ascending’
October 17, 2021.The Lawn at Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a live performance....
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2.2KReviewsThe conviction and commitment of artists using their platform: Artists Climate Collective’s ‘Art to Action’
Available through artistsclimatecollective.org. August 31-September 28, 2021. Artists naturally have a platform; they can speak through their work. Some use that platform to...
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1.5KReviewsDance diving deep into the stories of history: Rachel Linsky’s ‘Hidden’
Virtual premiere via Zoom.September 12, 2021. Tense muscles, heavy bones, churning and rumbling stomachs, heads swimming with pain and nausea: deprivation, psychosocial...
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1.7KReviewsMaking the best of constraints and challenges: Newport Dance Festival 2021
The lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 20-25, 2021. As was the case with most dance events last year,...
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1.3KReviewsNozama Dance Collective’s ‘N2’: Nimble Pivots
Mass Motion Dance, Brighton, MA.July 23, 2021. “Pivot”, in the metaphorical sense of shifting course to adapt — it’s become a bit...
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1.2KReviewsRevealing the people behind the artists: ALMA NYC’s ‘PLACES: A Look Behind the Curtain’
July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. Sirens blaring, the streets eerily empty, the smell of hand sanitizer and disinfectant in the air, the...
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1.5KReviewsThe third annual ‘Empower One Another’: Empowerment through having a voice and a choice
July 23-July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. One might think that artists having a voice is just something that naturally happens. Art involves...
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1.1KReviews‘Embodied Activism’: The body persisting
Outside of the St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, NY (also unlisted on YouTube).Earth Day 2021 (March 22, 2021). When...
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2.6KReviewsDare to Dance in Public’s ‘Pandemania’, Program B: Finding joy and ease amidst difficulty
Streaming from daretodanceinpublic.com.June 25-July 1, 2021. The dancers I love watching most blend ease and effort, flow and structure, mobility and stability....
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2.3KReviewsDance going deep inside: The Moving Architects’ ‘Loneland’
Premiered June 3, 2021.Streaming via YouTube. Dance is an abstract art form; the meaning or creative inspiration behind a particular work might...
