The Ailey dancers’ demands around salaries and the length of their contracts reflect the resurgent strength of organized labor in the cultural sector.
Dance
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!
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Classical Album Review: François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles — “Stravinsky: Ballets Russes”
Texturally, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ serve up diaphanous performances.
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.
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.