Dance

Dance Review: Fernanda Ghi Dance Company — Passion, Fury, and Enigma

October 17, 2019
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Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.

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Dance Review: “Giselle” Now — at the Boston Ballet

October 1, 2019
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The performance I saw on Friday night revealed Boston Ballet’s priorities: while the dancers possess a high degree of technical skills, they have a looser notion of nuanced acting.

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Dance Review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas — Phase by Phase

September 24, 2019
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker invites the audience to let go of outside distractions and meditate on our own deeper feelings.

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Dance Review: Red Sky Performance — A Stunning Look into the Origins of Things

August 20, 2019
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Red Sky Performance’s hold-your-breath physicality provides plenty of “wow factor.”

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Dance Review: “Gallim” — Extremes of Stress and Release

August 13, 2019
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Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.

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Dance Review: “Dances by Isadora” — Freedom to Move

June 26, 2019
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A passion for authenticity characterized this mesmerizing program from beginning to end.

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Dance Preview: Dance Heginbotham’s “Common Fate” — Celebrating Synchronicity

June 21, 2019
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Fresh from choreographing a Tony award-winning revival of Oklahoma!, John Heginbotham presents a world premiere in the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.

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Dance Review: “Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends and Lovers” — Through the Lens of History

June 5, 2019
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In this piece, Peter DiMuro asks a vital question: how has history informed the ways we look at queerness today?

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Dance Review: “See You Yesterday” — Airing Nightmares

May 17, 2019
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The horrors portrayed in See You Yesterday are facts, but this show does not yet address the meaning a new generation can make of those facts.

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Theater Review: BalletX — Plenty of Spunk

May 15, 2019
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Here was another (all-too) typical example of ballet companies reinforcing a patriarchy that hardly reflects the number of women in their ranks.

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