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Arts Feature: Dance Favorites of 2020

Community is what I miss most of all the pandemic’s deprivations—doing stuff with others.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Bereishit Dance Company, Camille A. Brown & Company:, Jacob Pillow Virtual Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Jose Limon Dance Company, Marcia B. Siegel, Mary Paula Hunter, POWER, Reggie Wilson, Thea Singer

Dance Review — Reclaiming Space, Quarry Dance IX

The film allowed me to see the dancers’ connections to each other, and their connections to the quarries themselves.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Dušan Týnek, Lisa Hahn, Marcia B. Siegel, Quarry Dance IX, Russ Gershon, Windhover for Performing Arts

Classical Album Review: Commedia dell’arte Clowns in a World of Heartbreak

Dohnányi and Schnitzler’s “pantomime” The Veil of Pierrette receives its first, and resplendent, recording.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arthur Schnitzler, Capriccio, Ernst von Dohnányi, Ralph P. Locke, The Veil of Pierrette

Dance News: Heartbreaking Loss at Jacob’s Pillow

With great sightlines from every one of its 216 seats, the Doris Duke Theatre space made for intimate, often enthralling encounters with movement.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Fuse News Tagged: Doris Duke Theatre

Dance Review/Commentary: “The Grand Union” — The Story of the Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance

This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Marcia B. Siegel, The Grand Union - Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, Wendy Perron, Wesleyan University Press

Dance Feature: The “Table of Silence Project 9/11” — Reimagined

“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: Jacqulyn Buglisi, Lincoln Center at Home, Table of Silence Project 9/11.

Dance Review: “And Still You Must Swing” — Tap Dance as Exhilaration and Inspiration

This terrific performance was the grand finale from a beloved dance festival doing its best under enormous pressure.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: And Still You Must Swing, Derek K. Grant, Dormeshia, Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival, Jason Samuel Smith, Jessica Lockhart

Dance Review: Tero Saarinen Company’s “Borrowed Light” — Elegantly Elemental

Did Jacob’s Pillow want to remind us, now more than ever, of a famous phrase from a 1848 Shaker song: “Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free.”

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Borrowed Light, Jacob's Pillow, Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Tero Saarinen Company

Dance Feature: Sara Juli’s “Burnt-Out Wife” — Scorched

In Burnt-Out Wife, Maine-based performance artist Sara Juli takes on the unarticulated rage lurking in a long-term marriage with a deft touch and the humor of a born stand-up comic.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: American Dance Festival, Burnt-Out Wife, Sara Juli, Sara Juli’s Burnt-Out Wife

Dance Review: José Limón Company at Jacob’s Pillow — Empowering and Necessary

Kudos to Jacob’s Pillow for this stellar beginning to a digital season of dance.

By: Mary Paula Hunter Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Jacob's Pillow, Mary Paula Hunter, The Jose Limon Company

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