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All posts tagged "review"
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3.6KReviewsThe courage of committing to concept: ‘Dancing Through…’ from Theatre Dance Vietnam
October 30, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Most of the dance works that truly resonate with me do so because of a strong concept,...
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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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2.1KReviewsThe worlds of ballet, hip hop and tap unite on stage in CLI Studios’ ‘A New Stage’
October 16, 2020.Online on CLI Studios. CLI studios (founded by tWitch and Allison Holker) released its first-ever virtual performance this weekend, starring...
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1.9KReviews‘Floodstream’ in the Shawna Shea Film Festival Shorts Fest: Dancing to commemorate
October 10, 2020.On Vimeo via the Shawna Shea Film Festival “Shorts Fest”. Humans have danced to honor those who’ve left us, from...
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1.6KReviewsThe Indo-American Arts Council’s Erasing Borders Dance Festival: Finding unexpected treasures
September 21-27, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. As a dance writer and someone deeply steeped in many different dance sub-communities, I hear about a...
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1.8KReviewsGiving artists a voice, virtually: The 2nd annual ‘Empower One Another’
September 26-28, 2020.Online at onstagedanceco.com. A meaningful thing about the arts is how it can give people a voice, a space to...
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1.8KReviewsLess is more, especially now: Pizarts’ quarantine dance film ‘Red Between the Lines’
September 17, 2020. Online via The Social Distancing Festival. “Less is more” is an old maxim in art (and in life); humans...
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2.7KDance Studio OwnerWhat you can learn from Jacqui Greene Haas’s ‘Dance Anatomy’
I love anatomy. As a yoga instructor, dancer, and writer in yoga and dance, it’s endlessly fascinating to me and applicable to...
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2.1KReviews‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Mignolo Dance and The Moving Architects
September 26, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the second act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...
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1.5KReviews‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company presents a collection of quarantine art
September 19, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the first act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...
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2.1KReviews‘Dance of Dreams’ from San Francisco Ballet and Benjamin Millepied: Art as escape
Streaming on YouTube. What are two main things that people want right now? Freedom of movement and human contact, I’ll say. San...
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1.6KReviewsJacob’s Pillow 2020 Virtual Summer Festival, Part II: ‘And still you must swing’
August 27, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. The final performance of Jacob’s Pillow’s two-month virtual Summer Festival, a festival that met the moment and...
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1.5KReviewsJacob’s Pillow 2020 Virtual Summer Festival, Part I: Meeting the moment
July and August 2020, Thursday evenings.Streamed on YouTube. As a dance reviewer, seeing dance live is one of the most treasured parts...
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2.4KReviewsFinding community and possibility, from the stage to the screen: 2020 Virtual Boston Contemporary Dance Festival
August 15, 2020.Virtually over Zoom. Each year, the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival (BCDF) offers a space for dance artists and dance enthusiasts...
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3.7KReviewsOuter and inner: ‘Where in Newport is Island Moving Company?’
Four Thursday afternoons in July and August.Various parks in Newport, RI. Live dance performance has an unparalleled, ephemeral magic. Part of that...
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1.9KReviewsDiavolo’s ‘This Is Me: Letters from the Front Lines’
July 31, 2020.Online, on YouTube. Among the many performances presented in the new quarantine norm of livestreaming, Diavolo’s This Is Me: Letters from...
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1.7KReviewsSteps and leaps forward: Lonnie Stanton and Dancers’ ‘Redirect and Progress’
Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts.July 18, 2020. There’s something uniquely magnetic about site-specific dance work, even by the standards of this exceptionally ephemeral...
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1.4KReviews‘Liquidus’: Tabula Rasa Dance Theater presents four dancers sheltering in place in New York City
July 25, 2020.Online, on YouTube. During the COVID pandemic, nine of the dancers of the Tabula Rasa Dance Theater company became sick...
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1.7KReviewsThe Festival of Us, You, We and Them at Dance Complex: Connecting and growing virtually
June 26-27, 2020.Online — @thedancecomplex and Dance Complex on Facebook. Humans evolved moving through the world, together in tight-knit communities. In 2020,...
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1.9KReviewsDallas Black Dance Theatre’s live ‘Petit Performance’ brings art online
July 10, 2020.Online – www.dbdt.com. Art in the time of corona is all about finding ways to connect with your community online....
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2.4KReviewsNYCB Digital Spring Season: The show must go on
March, April and May 2020.Online (YouTube and Facebook, through www.nycballet.com) It’s sort of striking to think how years of planning can change...
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2.2KReviewsPerformance Mix Festival, Online: ‘Remotely Yours’
May 2020.Online at newdancealliance.org. Pandemic times mean that in-person dance festivals are absolutely out of the question. Rather than fully give into...
