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.
Dance
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”