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All posts tagged "review"
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3.8KReviews‘Maze’ at The Shed: Hip hop within contemporary art
The Shed, New York, NY.July 24, 2019. Maze is a world premiere Shed commission with dancers from The D.R.E.A.M. Ring and The...
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2.4KReviewsTechnology, dance and 2019: Arch Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Chromatic Skies’
Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY. July 11, 2019. Sheena Annalise founded Arch Contemporary Ballet “to ensure the continuous evolution of ballet, designed...
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2.4KReviewsJennifer Kuhnberg’s ‘What is Love?’: Choreographing personal experience
OnStage Dance Company, Malden, Massachusetts.July 12, 2019. Good writers write about what they know, goes an old aphorism. Does that also hold...
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14.0KReviewsAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Dancing meaning and motivation
Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. June 15, 2019. In dancemaking, there’s the meaning of the work at hand (the...
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2.9KReviewsAmerican Ballet Theatre’s Jane Eyre: Atmosphere and authenticity to text in the modern day
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. June 10, 2019. Narrative dance art holds a central challenge — how do you tell...
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3.5KReviewsDemonstrating why dance art matters: José Limón Dance Company at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. May 29, 2019. There’s just something about the ephemeral magic of dance art — the way...
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4.3KReviewsIt’s not about the tricks: Abilities Dance Boston’s ‘Audacity’
March 22, 2019. Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ellice Patterson started Abilities Dance Boston with a clear mission: to offer a space...
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3.1KReviewsDance in a spacial context: VLA Dance’s ‘Sand’
Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. April 27, 2019. A key aspect of dance art is that it takes place in a space,...
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4.0KReviewsThe rich legacy of Shakespearean ballets: New York City Ballet in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
June 1, 2019. The David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY. In his time, William Shakespeare was a maverick innovator; he literally...
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3.4KReviewsRisk, courage and conscience in dance-making: Tabula Rasa Dance Theater’s ‘Inside Our Skins’
New York Live Arts, New York, NY. May 15, 2019. To make art and present it to an audience is taking a...
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2.7KReviewsBatsheva Dance Company’s ‘Venezuela’: Audience experience in mind
Boch Center Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. April 5, 2019. Dance can be quite intellectual, and quite intellectually fascinating — through elements of...
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2.8KReviewsCogent classicism made modern: ‘Benita Bike’s Dance Art’
The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 30, 2019. “I am a classicist,” wrote Benita Bike in her program letter. I did indeed...
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2.6KReviewsDana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s ‘Tracings’ at the National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. May 4, 2019. Telling an emotional, difficult story can demand a lot — emotional energy, clarity to...
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2.6KReviewsFamily Day at the theater: How to enjoy the ballet with young kids
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. April 7, 2019. Last Sunday...
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3.6KReviewsUrbanity Dance’s ‘Urbanity NeXt’: Stories in action
Urbanity Dance, Boston, Massachusetts. March 10, 2019. Wonderful dancing is wonderful dancing. It alone can be more than enough to create an...
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2.6KReviewsLady Bos Productions’ ‘….that’s what she said’ II: Dance stories can be enough
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA. March 30, 2019. Kristin Wagner, creative director of Lady Bos Productions, opened up the second installment...
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3.2KReviewsTaking risks in the Broadway revival of ‘Oklahoma!’
Circle in the Square, New York, NY. April 6, 2019. Amidst Broadway’s jukebox shows, Disney productions and movies-turned-musicals, another trend of late...
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2.7KReviewsDylan Crossman Dan(s)ce: Moving displacement and disruption
92nd Street Y, New York, NY. March 16, 2019. Life in 2019 seems full of shifts, changes, and stirrings — in our minds,...
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2.0KReviewsA 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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3.6KReviewsA classic that breaks out of the classical mold: Boston Ballet’s Coppélia
Boston Opera House, Boston, MA. March 21, 2019. When you think of a classical story ballet, what comes to mind? Fairies, princes...
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2.6KReviewsCould there be more for the women in ‘Kiss Me, Kate’?
Studio 54, New York, New York. March 19, 2019. Was Kiss Me, Kate a revival we needed to bring back to Broadway in...
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2.2KReviews‘Ain’t Too Proud’ is a charming and effortless hit
Imperial Theatre, New York, New York. March 12, 2019. There’s only one word that can encapsulate Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and...
