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All posts tagged "Danielle Genest"
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224ReviewsReturning to a favorite experience: The 2024 Newport Dance Festival
Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 17, 2024. There I was again: sitting on the lawn at Newport, RI’s Great Friends Meeting...
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271ReviewsDance in the here and now: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Frames of Mind’
WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 18, 2024. Have you ever watched the Ted Talk Dance vs PowerPoint? The main take-home message: dance...
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400ReviewsWho makes the magic?: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s 22nd annual ‘A Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 22, 2023. “Magic”. Maybe we think of fairies, elves, Santa Claus and any other number of mythical beings....
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405ReviewsThe generosity of live art: The 2023 Newport Dance Festival from Newport Contemporary Ballet
The Lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 22, 2023. One could say that dancing for an audience is an...
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356ReviewsThe fire of dance in us: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Catch Fire!’
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 20, 2023. Chi, ki, prana, baraka, mana: terms from different cultures and spiritual traditions that reference the...
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342Feature ArticlesNewport Contemporary Ballet presents new Frontier Series with ‘FIREBIRD’ world premiere
Newport Contemporary Ballet (NCB) (formerly known as Island Moving Company) has announced details for Catch Fire!, the Company’s new Frontier Series production. The series runs May 18-20, at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence. Catch Fire! is...
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695Feature ArticlesIsland Moving Company becomes Newport Contemporary Ballet
Island Moving Company (IMC) has revealed its new name and branding at “Transforming our Future,” a special presentation held at the company’s...
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600ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Points of Departure’: Multiple paths of perception
Newport Congregational Church, Newport, RI.October 7, 2022. First impressions can come into question as we learn more and reflect further – and...
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995ReviewsNew traditions in the dance that we share: Newport Dance Festival 2022
The Lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 19, 2022 People spread out in front of a stage, across a...
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934ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Resonant Visions’: Dance for many purposes, in many places
Keats Theater, Barrington, RI.May 7, 2022. I was walking to a dance performance, and not through the sort of surroundings that are...
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915ReviewsIsland 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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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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977ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Return to Live’: Deep, thoughtful art
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 6, 2021. Returning to live performance — these days, it’s a development that can make dancers and...
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1.4KReviewsWe still have each other: Island Moving Company’s ‘Together in this Dream — Dancing Through the Digital Divide’
March 6, 2021.Streamed live from The Gamm Theater. COVID has us not able to hug certain loved ones, precluded from breaking bread...
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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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2.2KReviewsIsland 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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2.8KReviewsConcert 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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1.9KReviewsA collection of styles in Island Moving Company’s ‘A Collection of Attitudes’
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 9, 2019. When it comes to programming a multi-work dance performance, what does “diversity” mean? How...
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3.2KReviewsIsland Moving Company in ‘Creative Continuum: Dances with Live Music’: Live music and very alive dance
Vets Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island. May 12, 2018. It’s undeniable that dance doesn’t have to he performed with any kind of score...
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6.6KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Mother Goose’ and ‘A Collection of Attitudes’: A cohesive celebration
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 4, 2017. Successfully creating and presenting art involves striking several important balances. One of them is...
