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Debra Cash

Dance Review: “What Problem?” — Bill T. Jones’s Angel of History

The struggle is to define what the problem is – and to allow the questions to have big, destabilizing, and more honest answers.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Bill T. Jones, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, What Problem?

Dance Commentary: Contract Dispute Between Union Artists and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — ‘Buked and Scorned?

The Ailey dancers’ demands around salaries and the length of their contracts reflect the resurgent strength of organized labor in the cultural sector.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: AGMA, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Guild of Musical Artists, Debra Cash, Robert Battle

Arts Commentary: Getting ‘em in the Door

For the foreseeable, capitalist American future, full and equitable access to live, professional performing arts will depend on subsidy.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Featured Tagged: arts-funding, Debra Cash, Emanuel Azenberg

Author Interview: Vermont’s John Killacky — At the Service of Art, Critique, and Civic Conversation

“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: because art, John Killacky, Onion River Press

Dance Review: Magic Afoot

Energizing, joyful, expert, close to sure-fire, Chasing Magic was a great choice to reopen A.R.T. after the long pandemic shutdown.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Ayodele Casel, Chasing Magic, Crystal Monee Hall, Torya Beard

Dance News: Heartbreaking Loss at Jacob’s Pillow

With great sightlines from every one of its 216 seats, the Doris Duke Theatre space made for intimate, often enthralling encounters with movement.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: Doris Duke Theatre

Arts Commentary: “The Death of the Artist” — Culture Workers Unite!

The shared baseline of these conversations is that there are no good old days to go back to. If the cultural sector in the United States returns to the ways things were organized in February, 2020, with all the inequity and unsustainability that implies, we will have failed.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: The Death of the Artist, William Deresiewicz

Dance Feature: Sara Juli’s “Burnt-Out Wife” — Scorched

In Burnt-Out Wife, Maine-based performance artist Sara Juli takes on the unarticulated rage lurking in a long-term marriage with a deft touch and the humor of a born stand-up comic.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: American Dance Festival, Burnt-Out Wife, Sara Juli, Sara Juli’s Burnt-Out Wife

Arts Commentary: Constraint in Quarantine

Our eyes may be quarantined, but our minds are not.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: Medieval Micrography:

Arts Commentary: Helping Dance at a Time of Social Distancing

How, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: COVID-19, Dance

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