Debra Cash

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?

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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.

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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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Visual Arts Review: Indelible Chinese Shadows

December 3, 2012
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Cut out of translucent and colored ox or donkey hide (sorry, PETA), they are foot and a half tall, two-dimensional figures operated by rods set up behind a slightly canted screen.

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Dance Review: Putting the Id in Kid: Faye Driscoll at the ICA

November 4, 2012
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Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and Aaron Mattocks stepped, bounced, shrieked and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality.

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Dance Review: Wishing on Lar’s Star

October 22, 2012
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Where “Little Rhapsodies” is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, “Crisis Variations”, choreographed last season, lurches into the void.

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Dance Review: Sokolow Now! — Continuing The Legacy

September 17, 2012
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Anna Sokolow’s art was the gift of distillation, designed around the choreographic mot juste and saying only that and nothing else. Performed by the right dancers, adequately coached, that simplicity can be resonant.

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Stage Interview: Cracking Eggs to Make An Omelet —Talking to Israeli novelist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua

September 8, 2012
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The latest play by the celebrated Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua is a historical drama that revolves around an imaginary conversation between two major political rivals about Zionism and the founding of Israel. Israeli Stage is presenting the American premiere of a staged reading of the script.

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Fuse Book Review: “The Woman Reader” — The Sounds of Silence

September 8, 2012
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In the encyclopedic, fascinating, and intermittently infuriating “The Woman Reader,” author Belinda Jack argues that we should not fear the battle between paper vs. pixels, but value reading and the ways it nourishes a woman’s inner life.

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Arts Remembrance: The Man Who Colored Outside the Lines — An Appreciation of Remy Charlip, 1929-2012

August 17, 2012
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The late Remy Charlip always crossed from the visual to the kinetic and back again.

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