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Debra Cash

Arts Commentary: Helping Dance at a Time of Social Distancing

How, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: COVID-19, Dance

Theater Review: “She the People” — Part Protest Rally and Part Catharsis

As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Second City, She The People

Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms

In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Oxford University Press, Paul A. Scolieri, Ted Shawn

Book Interview: Susan Larson’s “The Murder of Figaro” — Mozart Goes Sleuthing

Susan Larson’s The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Debra Cash, Greg Smith, mystery fiction, Sandy Sylvan, SusanLarson, The Murder of Figaro

Book Review: Unburied

David Treuer’s expansive new history of native America from 1890 to the present looks with skeptical, Indian eyes from inside simplistic American symbols and narratives.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Dance Review: “See You Yesterday” — Airing Nightmares

The horrors portrayed in See You Yesterday are facts, but this show does not yet address the meaning a new generation can make of those facts.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Global Art Corps, Phare Circus, See You Yesterday

Arts Commentary: The Authors Guild’s Modest Proposal

Invariably, these economic realities are barriers to entry into the broader cultural arena for the less-well-heeled among us, sustaining inequity.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: inequality, The Authors Guild

Visual Arts Review: “Living Objects — African American Puppetry,” Challenging Cultural Erasure

Playful and political, eerie and goofy by turns, this exhibition brings together puppets, performing objects, masks, and puppet (and doll) performances on video.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Ballard Institute, John Bell, Living Objects: African American Puppetry, Paulette Richards

Dance Feature: Alvin Ailey and Boston’s Elma Lewis — Beautiful Beyond Resistance

The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Alvin Ailey, Celebrity-Series, Judith Jamison, Revelations, Revelations: The Legacies of Alvin Ailey and Boston's Elma Lewis, WGBH

Book Review: Polish Poet Czesław Miłosz — Master of the Telling Detail

For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Biography, Andrzej Franaszek, Czesław Miłosz. Polish Literature, Harvard University Press, Miłosz

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