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Debra Cash

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

Dance Review: Embraceable — Christopher Wheeldon’s “An American in Paris”

The heart of this theatrical reboot is what it means to go for broke and bet on love, or art, or both.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: An American in Paris, Christopher Wheeldon, Craig Lucas, Garen Scribner, Gene Kelly, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Sara Esty

Book Review: The Librarians of Timbuktu — Action Heroes for Cultural Preservation

Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: ancient manuscripts, Joshua Hammer, rescue, Simon & Schuster, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

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