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Dance Commentary: Contract Dispute Between Union Artists and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — ‘Buked and Scorned?

The Ailey dancers’ demands around salaries and the length of their contracts reflect the resurgent strength of organized labor in the cultural sector.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: AGMA, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Guild of Musical Artists, Debra Cash, Robert Battle

Dance Review: “The Just and the Blind” — Shackled, Humiliated, Scared

The Just and the Blind sends a needed and powerful message — it is 2022, we need to wake up!

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Jessica Lockhart, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, The Just and the Blind

Dance Review: Sankofa Danzafro’s Passionate and Painful “Accommodating Lie”

Sankofa Danzafro’s Accommodating Lie, is a bold work of art that delivers an indispensable history lesson.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Accommodating Lie, Jessica Lockhart, Sankofa Danzafro

Author Interview: Vermont’s John Killacky — At the Service of Art, Critique, and Civic Conversation

“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: because art, John Killacky, Onion River Press

Dance Review: Magic Afoot

Energizing, joyful, expert, close to sure-fire, Chasing Magic was a great choice to reopen A.R.T. after the long pandemic shutdown.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Ayodele Casel, Chasing Magic, Crystal Monee Hall, Torya Beard

Short Fuse Podcast #44: Bloodlines, Punk, and Other Delights

Elizabeth Howard talks to Stephen Petronio, choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of the Stephen Petronio Company, about what plans forward-thinking artists have for the future.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Podcast Tagged: Bloodlines, Elizabeth Howard, Stephen Petronio

Dance Review Flashback: The Irrepressible Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow

I can still feel the exhilaration, the rush of the opening of things, from that day.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Byron Tittle, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Dorrance Dance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Thea Singer

Classical Album Review: François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles — “Stravinsky: Ballets Russes”

Texturally, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ serve up diaphanous performances.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ballets-Russes, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, Harmonia Mundi

Dance Review: LA’s Contra-Tiempo — An Ecstatic Dance for Justice

Contra-Tiempo sees the pandemic as an invitation for transformation: the performance questioned who we are, how do we move among each other, and what gives us joy.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Contra Tiempo – Activist Dance Theater, Contra-Tiempo, joyUS justUS, Las Cafeteras

Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet’s “Body and Soul” — Dark and Potent Boogie

Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Body and Soul, Crystal Pite, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Paris Opera Ballet

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