Dance

Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed

April 13, 2013
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Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

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Fuse News: Review — Caitlin Corbett Dance Company

April 11, 2013
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In her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.

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Dance/Music Review: See Dave Lead — Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra

April 8, 2013
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You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community’s drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the closing of the BOSTON PHOENIX.

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Fuse News: Leaving Little to Chance

April 1, 2013
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This week the Cunningham Dance Foundation released The Legacy Plan, a series of steps to document and preserve Merce Cunningham’s choreographies.

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Dance Review: The Joy of Swimming Upstream — Emily Johnson’s “Niicugni”

February 16, 2013
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Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.

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Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?

January 12, 2013
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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?

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The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips From the Experts

December 1, 2012
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Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem—the sage writers for The Arts Fuse (with an assist from our readers) come to the rescue with thoughtful suggestions.

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Fuse Dance Review: A Rousing Tenth Anniversary for Lorraine Chapman, The Company

November 6, 2012
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As a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.

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Dance Review: Putting the Id in Kid: Faye Driscoll at the ICA

November 4, 2012
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Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and Aaron Mattocks stepped, bounced, shrieked and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality.

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Dance Review: Wishing on Lar’s Star

October 22, 2012
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Where “Little Rhapsodies” is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, “Crisis Variations”, choreographed last season, lurches into the void.

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