Debra Cash

Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed

April 13, 2013
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Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

Fuse News: Review — Caitlin Corbett Dance Company

April 11, 2013
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In her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.

Dance/Music Review: See Dave Lead — Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra

April 8, 2013
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You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community’s drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the closing of the BOSTON PHOENIX.

Fuse News: Leaving Little to Chance

April 1, 2013
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This week the Cunningham Dance Foundation released The Legacy Plan, a series of steps to document and preserve Merce Cunningham’s choreographies.

Dance Review: The Joy of Swimming Upstream — Emily Johnson’s “Niicugni”

February 16, 2013
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Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.

Opera Review: An Uneven “Clemency” at the Boston Lyric Opera Annex

February 9, 2013
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Composer James MacMillan’s musical strategy in this opera is a stylistic patchwork that seems to mean to convey that each character inhabits a different, mutually misunderstood world.

Visual Arts/Book Review: Still Cagey at 100

February 5, 2013
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage to Richard Kostelanetz, 1988

Dance Commentary: Crowd Sourced Choreography?

January 12, 2013
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What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?

Hanukkah Book Review: “Jews and Words” — More Than Tongue Can Tell

December 12, 2012
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At first glance, Oz and Oz-Salzberger’s “Jews and Words” seems to be an unexceptional if elegantly written and occasionally witty contribution to the Jewish bookshelf.

Theater Review: “Beauty and the Beast” — Only Skin Deep

December 7, 2012
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This version of “La Belle et la Bête” never commits to a through-line about how its metaphors and rich visual imagery are supposed to operate.

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