Debra Cash

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.

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.

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.

Theater Review: “The Queen of Versailles” — Because She Can

August 6, 2024
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This, my friends, is what a capital D Diva looks like.

Music Preview: Yidstock 2024 — Roots and Branches

June 25, 2024
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“The only way to keep the music alive is to view it as a living thing and support artists who approach it that way, rather than as a museum piece.”

Theater Review: A Magical, Risky, Reimagined Production of “The Dybbuk”

June 23, 2024
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Arlekin Players Theatre’s “The Dybbuk” may not convince you of the supernatural, but director Igor Golyak is a magician.

Theatre Preview: A Chat with Basil Twist — Poetry Wins in “Book of Mountains and Seas”

April 16, 2024
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You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.

Book Review: “The Amen Effect” — Call It Pastoral Community Organizing

March 11, 2024
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This small volume is apt to become a classic that is passed hand to hand.

Dance Review: Shamel Pitts’s BLACK HOLE — Moving into a Space Beyond Our Own

February 11, 2024
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In “BLACK HOLE,” the TRIBE trio moves as if learning for the first time how their skeletons and muscles are constrained and empowered, perplexed and bedazzled, by gravity’s incontrovertible power.

Dance Review: Momix’s “Alice” — Curiouser and Curiouser

January 22, 2024
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Too, too soon, the images in MOMIX’s “Alice” alternate between unpleasant and stale.

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