Debra Cash

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

December 13, 2017
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The Celebrity Series of Boston gathered a distinguished multi-generational panel to consider both the legacy of Alvin Ailey and of Elma Lewis.

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

May 13, 2017
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For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.

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

October 28, 2016
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The heart of this theatrical reboot is what it means to go for broke and bet on love, or art, or both.

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

June 23, 2016
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Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.

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

March 1, 2016
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Brian Seibert’s history of tap dancing has unleashed something I can only describe as a tap world pissing contest.

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

October 22, 2015
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Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.

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

May 26, 2015
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What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?

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Visual Arts Interview: George Fifield — Boston’s Cyberman

February 2, 2015
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George Fifield has been pushing the conceptual ball called contemporary digital and intermedia art up a hill for decades.

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

January 24, 2015
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Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.

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

January 17, 2015
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Monica Bill Barnes’s choreographic method can be characterized as make ’em laugh, then make ’em think.

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