Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show

December 17, 2018
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Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.

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Dance Review: “Places Please!” — That’s Showbiz

October 22, 2018
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Places Please! looks at the backstage life and trauma of performers.

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Dance Review: DanceUP’s Compound Fractions

September 27, 2017
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Local chauvinism aside, the evening was a diverse one, at least in terms of dance genres.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The ICA — The Limits of Being an Icon

March 7, 2017
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The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?

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Dance Review: Bill T. Jones — Pieces of a Conversation

November 14, 2016
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Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.

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Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dança — Hip, Hipper, Hippest

April 19, 2016
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Companhia de Dança of Rio de Janeiro applies a suggestion of narrative to the standard revue format..

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Dance Review: Redefining Bling

April 11, 2016
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The dancers in Yanira Castro’s company, a canary torsi, learned historically correct period movements.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Black Mountain College Exhibition at the ICA—A Conventional Look at the Unconventional

November 25, 2015
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I was not fully satisfied by the constraints of the exhibit, but I enjoyed seeing the work of those who made up the Black Mountain College community.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957”

November 3, 2015
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Other than a highway sign not much remains, but the artistic legacy of Black Mountain College is truly indelible.

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Dance Review: Ids in Captivity

October 10, 2015
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Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

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