Dorrance Dance

Dance Review Flashback: The Irrepressible Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow

September 22, 2021
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I can still feel the exhilaration, the rush of the opening of things, from that day.

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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s Tapestration

January 21, 2019
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I thought I’d never seen such a thrilling example of how dance and music can combine and feed each other.

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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow — Stretching the Boundaries of Tap

July 25, 2018
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Nicholas Van Young supplied an astounding display of virtuosity that seemed to amaze even the dancer himself.

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Dance Review: Syncopations — Dorrance Dance in Concert

January 17, 2017
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Dorrance’s partners dance jazz in the most basic way, for its propulsiveness and its amenability to individual imagination.

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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s “Blues Project” — Keeping Tap Alive

March 15, 2015
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Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.

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Dance Review: Crackling Out The Blues

July 28, 2013
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This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.

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