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All posts tagged "review"
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1.6KReviewsGetting back to an essence: New York City Ballet in Kyle Abraham’s ‘When We Fell’
April 8, 2021.On YouTube, as part of New York City Ballet’s digital season. In the quiet of solitude, with all of the noise...
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3.1KReviewsRecontextualizing legacy and versatility: New York City Ballet’s ‘Three Sides of Balanchine’
Thursday March 4th, 11th, and 18th at 8 PM.Streamed on YouTube as part of NYCB’s Digital Season. George Balanchine — the artist...
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1.9KReviewsArt for the times: Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Black is Beautiful’ Part I
Premiered February 3, 2021.Available through Facebook and YouTube. “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times,” Nina Simone once said. Issues of...
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1.6KReviewsThe clarity of a surrealistic mirror: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Rena Butler’s ‘A Tale of Two’
Released October 2020.Accessible through hubbardstreetdance.com. It’s commonly said — “art is a mirror”, reflecting ourselves and our world back at us so...
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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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1.8KReviewsAesthetic and atmosphere: San Francisco Ballet’s Digital Program 03
March 4-24, 2021.Accessible through www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home. Just about all dance artists have the experience of a dance really becoming what it is in...
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1.5KReviewsIndividual kinetic experience: ‘Wandering’ dance film
February 15, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. The sound of breath and feet scraping against the ground, the feeling of kinetic energy and authentic...
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11.4KReviewsNow and then: Boston Ballet’s ‘Celebrating Jorma Elo’
February 25-March 7.Through bostonballet.org/bbatyourhome. Dance doesn’t exist in a vacuum, evidently enough; what came before is either a foundation or something to...
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3.9KReviewsReinvigorating an old tale: Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’
February 11-15, 2021.Vimeo.com, via pacificnorthwestballet.org. Romeo and Juliet is an infamous play known across the English speaking-world: read in high schools, performed...
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2.1KReviewsArt as a mirror: Hive Creative Company’s ‘Seek’
January 31, 2021.Through vimeo.com. Art can act as a mirror, they say. How so? It can make us ask questions, and see...
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2.2KReviewsLimón Dance Company at Kaatsbaan: Time is of the essence
December 19, 2020.Streaming to YouTube from Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY. An interesting theme in the ether this hard year has been...
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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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2.2KReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘The Gift’: Redefining traditions
December 17-27, 2020.Accessible through BB@yourhome. They say there’s a first for everything, and — as years go — 2020 was a first...
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1.9KReviews2020 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Virtual Season: Dance for troubled times
December 2-31, 2020.Accessible through www.alvinailey.org/performances-tickets/virtual-winter-season/watch-now. For over 60 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has presented dance art that uplifts, inspires, educates...
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2.6KReviewsKinetic Light’s ‘DESCENT’: Aesthetic harmony, tension and ‘reckless abandon’
December 3-5, 2020.Via University of Minnesota’s Northrop, co-presented by Walker Art Center. Humans began to dance to connect with the natural world...
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2.8KReviewsSan Francisco Ballet’s virtual ‘The Nutcracker’: Returning to joy and connection
November 27-December 31, 2020.Accessible through sfballet.org. Music swells. Rhinestones shine. Glittery snow falls across stagelights. The scent of flowers for the dancers...
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2.7KReviewsBallet moving forward and RISE-ing: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Future Starts Today’
November 23, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. At times, dance has been at the forefront of social change and innovation. At other times, we’ve...
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2.6KReviewsNozama Dance Collective’s ‘An Allyship Project’: In a tradition of mobilizing body, heart and mind
November 14, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. Dance art has a tradition of outspokenness and direct action when it comes to social and political...
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2.3KReviews‘Forsythe Elements’ in Boston Ballet’s BB@yourhome: Questioning what ballet and performance can be
November 19-29, 2020.Streamed on bostonballet.org through subscription. I remember the first time I saw a William Forsythe work. It was obviously ballet,...
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2.2KReviews‘Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter’: An Akram Khan film
November 13, 2020.Available to watch on All4. Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter documents Akram Khan’s foray into a field that dancers...
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3.0KReviewsAn encounter with Batsheva: Ohad Naharin’s ‘YAG: The Movie’
November 21, 2020.Filmed October 2020, at Batsheva’s Varda Studio, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. Presented online. YAG: The Movie, Ohad Naharin’s first...
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1.9KReviewsNew York City Ballet’s New Works Festival: The energy of space
October 27-31, 2020. Streaming online, filmed in the Lincoln Center Plaza and other sites in New York City. Lincoln Center: there’s a...
