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Book Review: “Josephine Baker’s Secret War” — Zouzou in Casablanca

May 4, 2025
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What we don’t learn in “Josephine Baker’s Secret War” was what she did to steel herself against the risks she was taking. Was it all acting? A belief that her charmed life would never end?

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Dance Reviews: Mood Swings — A Boston Weekend of Percussive Dance

February 10, 2025
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Whereas tap dancer Caleb Teicher is all idiosyncrasy, the Trinity Dancers wow by their perfect unison.

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Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love” — Always Something There to Remind Me

January 25, 2025
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There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.

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Dance Preview: Feeling Together — Omayra Amaya’s Flamenco Returns

January 21, 2025
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International flamenco artist Omayra Amaya’s upcoming Boston shows represent a moment of both reunion and reflection.

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Book Review: The Rise and Fall of a Multivocal and Multicultural Alternative — “The Village Voice”

January 6, 2025
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Looking back, the writing in the “Village Voice” was as good as Tricia Romano’s subjects remember. She excerpts paragraphs and the language is fresh, distinctive, sometimes profane, and always worth reading. For those who wrote books, it will send you back to the bookshelf.

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Dance Review: “Diary of a Tap Dancer” — Say Their Names

December 29, 2024
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Is it possible to reclaim a marginalized legacy? And how do you step up to take a seat at the table when your history has been neglected and forgotten?

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Book Review: Yiddish Writer Celia Dropkin’s Rediscovered “Desires” — Yiddishe Erotics

December 4, 2024
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Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin wrote not only of romantic love – a topic deemed quite suitable to women writers – but also of lust, anger, abasement, and violence.

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Dance Review: Faye Driscoll’s “Weathering” — New York City Pompeii

November 17, 2024
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When the performers finally left the platform, breathing hard, crawling towards us and into the audience, I realized I was seeing something new.

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Dance Review: PALAVER STRINGS + little house dance — Knee High

November 10, 2024
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Choreographer Heather Stewart’s use of the stage space, while not “immersive” by the standard art world definition, is inventive and meaningful.

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Visual Arts Review: “Conjuring the Spirit World” — Can You Believe Your Eyes?

September 28, 2024
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This simultaneously entertaining and provocative show contests the premise that people today are invariably more sophisticated than those who lived in spiritualism’s heyday.

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