Marcia B. Siegel

Dance Review: Full Houses — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

March 23, 2016
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Each piece was delivered in a different combination of popular dance and modern dance styles.

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Dance Review: Style Survey — “Kaleidoscope” at Boston Ballet

March 20, 2016
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I’d seen all of these works on the Boston Ballet’s program once or twice in the past. They all seemed to improve with these additional viewings.

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Dance Review: Hurtling Through the Spheres — Compagnie Hervé Koubi

March 14, 2016
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Koubi’s piece overturned expectations in so many ways it could be called innovative, groundbreaking.

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Dance Review: Russian Romantics — John Cranko’s “Onegin” at Boston Ballet

March 3, 2016
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The rapturous reaction to Boston Ballet’s performance on Sunday afternoon demonstrated that this kind of work can still move an audience.

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Dance Review: Revolution in Reverb – Bolshoi Postmodern in HD

February 29, 2016
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Introduced by gigantic moving set-pieces and robots with prison searchlights for eyes, Bolt often looks like poster art.

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Dance Review: Sampling the Spectrum — BB@Home, Boston Ballet School

February 20, 2016
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Sunday afternoon’s hourlong program in BB@Home series took us from the nineteenth century to this very minute.

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Fuse Dance Review: Outreachers – CATALYSTS at the Dance Complex, Central Square

February 12, 2016
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Women still dominate the dance field as performers and choreographers.

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Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015

December 19, 2015
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Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Gold Mine

November 25, 2015
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I saw the anniversary evening as being about Twyla Tharp’s perennial themes and preoccupations.

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Dance Review: Process Pieces From Harvard Dance Project

November 14, 2015
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Each of the ten or so music-less sections showed us a different way of composing movement.

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