Dance

Dance Review: “circlusion” Turns the Mattress into a Stage for Reimagined Femininity

February 8, 2026
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As this duet unfolds, it opens the way to musings about how a bed is a human-sized rectangle on which are projected dreams and nightmares, sexuality and erotic boundaries.

Book Review: Choreographer George Balanchine — Cavalier or Creep?

January 8, 2026
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“Balanchine Finds His America” is written primarily in the present tense, so that reading the book is like watching a never-to-be-repeated dance performance.

Dance Review: Anne Plamondon Productions — Emotional Rescue

December 23, 2025
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In “Myokine”, the ensemble itself is under interrogation: can these dancers connect enough to rescue each other? Can they form bonds of solidarity?

Dance Preview: “Urban Nutcracker” Turns 25

November 28, 2025
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The elements of “Urban Nutcracker” have remained the same over the decades: a mix of classical, street, and global dance genres, buoyed by a medley featuring Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington’s take on Tchaikovsky’s classic score.

Dance Preview: Seán Curran & Decent Dance — “Through Lines”

November 25, 2025
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“I love to dance. I love music. My life is in the flow” — Seán Curran

Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers — Beauty and Resilience for These Dark Times

November 22, 2025
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Varone and dancers made skillful use of some of the most luxurious movement vocabulary available in contemporary dance

Dance Review: Camille A. Brown’s “I AM” — Where Ferocity Becomes Joy

November 19, 2025
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There is a sense that once wound up, the dancers are not going to let go – not from their power and not from their dreams.

Dance Review: From Light to Darkness, Music from the Sole Finds Its Groove

October 21, 2025
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The blend of rhythmic dance and gorgeous music made for a very harmonious collaboration.

Film Review: “Monk in Pieces” — An Education of the (Genius) Girlchild

August 9, 2025
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What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”

Dance Commentary: The Phoenix Rises — A Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow

July 13, 2025
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Jacob’s Pillow’s new Doris Duke Theatre is a complete triumph. It is, in artistic director Pamela Tatge’s words, “nothing like we had in mind but exactly what we thought.”

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