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Debra Cash

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

Theater Review: “She the People” — Part Protest Rally and Part Catharsis

As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Second City, She The People

Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms

In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Oxford University Press, Paul A. Scolieri, Ted Shawn

Book Interview: Susan Larson’s “The Murder of Figaro” — Mozart Goes Sleuthing

Susan Larson’s The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Debra Cash, Greg Smith, mystery fiction, Sandy Sylvan, SusanLarson, The Murder of Figaro

Book Review: Unburied

David Treuer’s expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Dance Review: “See You Yesterday” — Airing Nightmares

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.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Global Art Corps, Phare Circus, See You Yesterday

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