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Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater — All Wound Up

February 28, 2014
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If calculating pi to a far-off-integer isn’t for you, TAO Dance Theater’s baffling kinetic exploits may seem less like an incredible journey than a trudge to a dead end.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Käfig — Arbitrary Exoticism

February 8, 2014
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I get why Compagnie Käfig’s Correria/Agwa has been booked onto stages in 15 countries and counting. But the troupe’s polished athleticism comes at the sacrifice of hip hop dance’s precious anarchy.

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Fuse Dance News: The “Restless Creature” Takes A Rest

February 7, 2014
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Dancer Wendy Whelan will not be appearing under the auspices of the Celebrity Series of Boston as planned.

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Fuse News: Visionaries in Conversation

January 31, 2014
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Arts alert for readers in the Pioneer Valley.

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Fuse Dance Review: PERFORMANCE — A Parade of Passersby

January 27, 2014
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No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.

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Fuse Music Review: Emmanuel Music’s “A Little Night Music” — An Uneven Evening

January 21, 2014
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With a Stephen Sondheim show, it’s all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music’s casting was a mixed bag.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Musical “Once” — Music as Healing and Community

January 12, 2014
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John Tiffany’s Tony-winning direction of “Once,” restaged for the current tour, is a miracle of judicious rhythmic choices and deft transitions.

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Film Preview: Sheer Silent Film Magic — “He Who Gets Slapped” and The Alloy Orchestra

December 23, 2013
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“Lon Chaney is just a master,” says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, “and the film ‘He Who Gets Slapped’ has everything that he’s great at.”

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Fuse News Comment: Verdi vs. the Synthesized Xylophones

December 15, 2013
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All was well — at moments, thrilling — until the credits rolled. Then the Regal did what it always did: it launched its terrible muzak.

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Fuse News: Art Works — The News from the NEA

December 12, 2013
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Observers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and geographies.

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