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Book Review: “Why Dance Matters” — Slip Sliding Away

Because Mindy Aloff is so deeply personal and idiosyncratic — and so dependent on what was programmed by certain theaters, in certain years — her book distorts the very topic it is intended to illuminate.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured Tagged: Debra Cash, Hip Hop, Mindy Aloff, toyi toyi, Why Dance Matters, Yale-University-Press

Dance Review: Circa’s “Sacre” — Breathtaking Acrobatics

Circa has come up with a stunning way to combine the athleticism of circus training with the aesthetics of dance theater.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Circa, Jessica Lockhart, Sacre

Dance Interview: Rachel Linsky on Taking Holocaust Education Outside of the Jewish Community

In choreographer Rachel Linsky’s hands — and the bodies of her articulate, reverberating dancers — you gain both kinesthetic and emotional access to the worlds of those who lived the Holocaust.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: Aaron Elster, antisemitism, Hidden, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Olivia Link, Rachel Linsky, Thea Singer

Dance Review: “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth” — Cycles of Death and Rebirth

What Kyle Abraham has done is to conjure up a wonderfully confusing vision into the myriad possibilities raised by the cycle of death and life again.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, Fire in the Air of the Earth, Jessica Lockhart

Dance Review: “What Problem?” — Bill T. Jones’s Angel of History

The struggle is to define what the problem is – and to allow the questions to have big, destabilizing, and more honest answers.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Bill T. Jones, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, What Problem?

Dance Review: KAIROS Dance Theatre’s “Husk/Vessel” — A Place where Embraces and Violence Meet

Love, anger, frustration, hope, sadness, lullabies — they are all here through movement that is at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced and propulsive.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Deanna Pellecchia, Husk/Vessel, KAIROS Dance Theatre, Paula Josa-Jones, Rachel Linsky

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

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