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Debra Cash

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

Book Review: “What The Eye Hears” — Putting the Wrong Foot First

Brian Seibert’s history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Brian Seibert, Constance Valis Hill, Joan Acocella, Tap Dancing America, tap-dancing, What The Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Visual Arts Feature: Alla Kovgan, Treasure Hunter—Merce Cunningham at the ICA

Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Alla Kovgan, Black Mountain College 1933–1957, Cunningham 3D, documentary, Leap Before You Look, Merce Cunningham

Film Review: You Can Go Home Again (If You’re a Star)

What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: documentary, Eileen Douglas, George Balanchine, Merrill Ashley, Ron Steinman, The Dance Goodbye

Visual Arts Interview: George Fifield — Boston’s Cyberman

George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, George Fifield

Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA

Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.

By: By Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: ICA, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mark-Morris

Dance Preview: Radio Dancing — A Conversation with Monica Bill Barnes

Monica Bill Barnes’s choreographic method can be characterized as make ’em laugh, then make ’em think.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Preview Tagged: Anna Bass, Boston's Celebrity Series, Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, Three ActsTwo DancersOne Radio Host

Book Review: “Culture Crash” — The People Who Followed Their Bliss Off a Cliff

Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Clash: The Killing of the Creative Class, Scott Timberg

Fuse News: In March, Celebrity Series Will Help Us “Stave” Off Boredom

Stave off boredom. This is going to be a smoking festival.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Berklee Performance Center, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Stave Sessions

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