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All posts tagged "review"
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2.1KReviewsCuret Performance Project’s ‘ASPECTOS’: Bodies and beliefs
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY. November 1, 2019. “Belief is a beautiful armor, but it makes for the heaviest sword,” goes one...
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2.5KReviewsPaul Taylor American Modern Dance at Lincoln Center: The spirituality of movement
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.November 7, 2019. As humans evolved, they moved together to praise spirits — those that brought...
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4.0KReviewsA Halloween spectacular: ‘Beetlejuice’ on Broadway
Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY.November 14, 2019. “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” To open, Beetlejuice was so not my favorite movie growing up. As a...
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2.3KReviewsDancers Demand Action Benefit Concert: A tapestry of American dance
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. November 11, 2019. For such a young nation, relatively speaking, America has an impressive dance heritage —...
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2.1KReviewsAn ABT fall program: To move and to relate, through the ages
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. October 23, 2019. Moving, loving, eating, sleeping — there are actions that have always been fundamental...
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1.9KReviewsCamille A. Brown & Dancers’ ‘Mr. TOL E. RancE’: Dance reflecting hope in the face of adversity
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.November 10, 2019. It can be truly striking to sit back and reflect upon how American “pop”...
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1.6KReviews‘The Day’: The power of simplicity and universality
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.October 22, 2019. There’s just something about when masters gather — their combined experiences jelling and mixing...
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3.0KReviewsA.I.M. at The Joyce: The fruits of eclecticism and collaboration
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. October 15, 2019. Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion (A.I.M.) seeks to “create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work” and...
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2.2KReviewsVulnerability in action: Amanda + James presents ‘Dance +’
September 27, 2019. Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY. An astute dance artist I once interviewed discussed creating “empathetic access points” for all...
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3.1KReviewsMOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet’ and other works
The Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.September 23, 2019. To me, dance art is different than dance in an inclusion of other...
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2.1KReviewsFreemove Dance’s ‘…it’s time’: Action in time, movement in space
14th Street Y, New York, NY. September 22, 2019. Time. It’s quite a loaded concept. The word can trigger stress, anxiety, hope, nostalgia...
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1.9KReviewsA celebration of a legend: ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. October 5, 2019. As I took my seat in the Eisenhower...
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2.1KReviewsBalletX’s ‘The Little Prince’: The magic in the making
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. October 1, 2019. I love to attend live dance art because there’s a magic that happens when...
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4.7KReviewsClassical simplicity: Boston Ballet’s ‘Giselle’
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. September 19, 2019. The curtains rose on the first performance of Giselle on June 28, 1841, at the...
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2.8KReviewsNozama Dance Collective’s ‘Uplift’: Dance that lifts up
Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts.August 9, 2019. There’s a lot in this world that feels capable of bringing us down. The weight...
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2.7KReviewsMusic, movement and the unexpected: mignolo dance’s ‘Translations’
HERE Arts Center, New York, NY.July 30, 2019. Dance art — it’s a coming together of movement and costumes, lighting, and often...
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2.9KReviewsShowing meaning in dance art: Inclined Dance Project’s inQUAD
Dixon Place, New York, NY. August 23, 2019. A reach conveying longing and loss, a falling to the floor conveying despair and hopelessness;...
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3.0KReviewsOne word, one dancer: BalaSole Dance Company’s ‘Evening of Solos’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.August 17, 2019. Less can be more, they say. Apply that to dance, and one could discuss...
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2.6KReviewsAll that it can be: 2019 Ballet Festival at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.August 6, 10, 13 and 16, 2019. Taking in four nights of The Joyce’s Ballet Festival, I...
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2.3KReviewsRock ‘n’ roll Romeo and Juliet vibe in ‘Bat Out of Hell’
New York City Center, New York, NY.August 7, 2019. Meat Loaf in a musical? I was quite confused but certainly intrigued. Bat Out of Hell...
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4.7KReviewsTruth, beauty, freedom, love, and don’t forget the Rouge
Al Hirschfeld Theatre, New York, NY.August 1, 2019. Moulin Rouge! The Musical opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 25. Directed...
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2.2KReviewsAl Blackstone’s stroke of genius in ‘Freddie Falls in Love’
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.July 23, 2019. Freddie Falls in Love, a dance narrative presented by The Joyce Theater Foundation in...
