Debra Cash

Dance Review: Dancing with Ancestors

March 21, 2005
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Urban Bush Women go back to the past in the name of a more communal and compassionate future. By Debra Cash View Gallery The names of Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Dubois, Shirley Chishom and Ossie Davis roll down like a mighty stream. On stage, Amara Tabor-Smith of the Urban Bush Women reaches across space, at turns…

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Drawing Audiences to Dance

February 8, 2005
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The challenge of building a new dance audience lies in presenting, and contextualizing, thought-provoking work

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Dance Review: Race and Dance

November 9, 2004
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Dance icon Bill T. Jones confounds expectations about race and the power of stereotypes in two new dance pieces. “Reading, Mercy and the Artificial Nigger” and “Mercy 10×8 On a Circle” by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company By Debra Cash Bill T. Jones would no doubt take umbrage at being compared to the white…

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Dance Commentary: Facing Mekka

November 5, 2004
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A new dance show by Rennie Harris serves as a valuable response to MTV’s commercialization of hip hop.

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Wanted: Inspired Choreographers

October 20, 2004
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Students and audiences of tomorrow deserve exposure to great dances, but they are not always getting them.

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Dance Commentary: Alone and Loving It

September 15, 2004
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The number of solo dance performances is growing, and it is not only because they are cheap to produce.

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Desperate Dancing

August 28, 2004
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An indispensable new biography of Broadway legend Jerome Robbins reevaluates his life and work.

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