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All posts tagged "online dance reviews"
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598ReviewsA kaleidoscope of style and choreographic voice: OnStage Dance Company’s Season 22 Performance
Boston University Dance Theater (and via onstagedanceco.com).May 7, 2022. Boston-based OnStage Dance Company always offers a smorgasbord of styles and artistic approaches...
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480ReviewsBody Stories: Teresa Fellion Dance and Kristin Hatleberg in ‘Take Root’: The dynamic meditation of dance art
Green Space, Queens, NY (and via Vimeo).April 8, 2022. “Mindfulness” is a buzzword of the modern world, as society explores different ways...
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463ReviewsEnglish National Ballet in Akram Khan’s ‘Giselle’: An epic and contemporary take on the classic
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.June 8, 2022. In Akram Khan’s version of the classical story ballet for English National Ballet, rather...
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670ReviewsLive art for the here and now: Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project 2022
Festival Ballet Providence Black Box Theater, Providence, RI.May 22, 2022. I took my seat to take in Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project’s...
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956ReviewsIsland 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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583ReviewsBoston 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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819ReviewsAlison 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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519ReviewsAbilities 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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568ReviewsMusic 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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725Reviews‘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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801ReviewsMark 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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939ReviewsIsland 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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1.2KReviewsFestival 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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975ReviewsKyle 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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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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880ReviewsThe 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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1.3KReviewsRe-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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1.3KReviewsThe 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...
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5.0KReviewsLess 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...
