Debra Cash
Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash on what’s coming up in dance this week.
Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.
In four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film’s artistic and technical achievement.
This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.
On Friday, three experimental artists offer a sneak peek at their work together to date, with the addition to excepts from more finished pieces.
Art helps keep the horrors in sight, so if you’re in the Berkshires July 16 through 27, it will be well worth the trip to visit the Lenox Public Library and stand witness to Robin Berson’s memorial quilt.
Instability is key to Brian Brooks’ choreographic agenda. Some of the dancers crouch on their hands and feet and are transformed into slow-moving mounts for the dancers balancing on their backs.
What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.
“We’re in this really great place now where the music [klezmer] can sound fairly traditional in style but at the same time we can do more in-depth arrangements.”
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