Debra Cash

Book Review: Stop Romanticizing the Starving Artist

May 13, 2026
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“Making Art and Making a Living” assembles colorful tales of ingenuity while skirting the economic inequities that make them necessary.

Visual Arts Review: Rewriting the Machine — Raffaella della Olga’s Radical Typewriter Art

April 29, 2026
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Raffaella della Olga prepares manual typewriters the way John Cage prepared pianos, using their percussive power to completely subvert their original purpose.

Dance Review: Angkor Troupe’s “Swan Lake” — Trauma into Triumph

April 19, 2026
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Turn the lake into a lotus pond and you can take it from there.

Theater Review: “Suffs” Marches On — Without the Fire Its Story Deserves

March 19, 2026
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“Suffs” bounces through a timeline of conferences, direct actions, interpersonal snits, and self-questioning over whether the entire endeavor is really worth it.

Dance Feature: Finding Comedy in Motion — Sara Juli and Alexander Davis Share the Stage

March 17, 2026
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With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.

Dance Review: Gibney Company’s Chamber-Scale Brilliance Lights Up the ICA Stage

March 14, 2026
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The Gibney Company has brought a three-work evening to town that any chamber-sized contemporary dance company in the world would admire.

Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company — Elegance, Wit, and Enduring Innovation

February 15, 2026
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The question was how well these mid-20th century works would hold up and how, with the passing of time, those dances would look to both familiar and fresh eyes.

Dance Review: “circlusion” Turns the Mattress into a Stage for Reimagined Femininity

February 8, 2026
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As this duet unfolds, it opens the way to musings about how a bed is a human-sized rectangle on which are projected dreams and nightmares, sexuality and erotic boundaries.

Book Review: Choreographer George Balanchine — Cavalier or Creep?

January 8, 2026
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“Balanchine Finds His America” is written primarily in the present tense, so that reading the book is like watching a never-to-be-repeated dance performance.

Dance Review: Anne Plamondon Productions — Emotional Rescue

December 23, 2025
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In “Myokine”, the ensemble itself is under interrogation: can these dancers connect enough to rescue each other? Can they form bonds of solidarity?

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