Dance

Dance Preview: Reclaiming the Social Heart of Dance

June 13, 2026
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Shakia Barron’s “The Gathering” transforms the stage into a shared space of rhythm, improvisation, and release.

Dance Review: John Lam’s New Company Finds Its Footing

May 19, 2026
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Lam Dance Works pairs visiting virtuosity with emerging dancers, revealing both the promise and growing pains of a young Boston troupe.

Dance Review: Dancing Between Traditions — Vimoksha’s Lush and Luminous Fusion

April 21, 2026
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A Boston-based ensemble blends Indian classical forms with contemporary dance to probe birth, patriarchy, and migration.

Dance Review: Angkor Troupe’s “Swan Lake” — Trauma into Triumph

April 19, 2026
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Turn the lake into a lotus pond and you can take it from there.

Dance Feature: Finding Comedy in Motion — Sara Juli and Alexander Davis Share the Stage

March 17, 2026
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With autobiographical wryness on the menu, Sara Juli and Alexander David is a match made in performance art heaven.

Dance Review: Gibney Company’s Chamber-Scale Brilliance Lights Up the ICA Stage

March 14, 2026
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The Gibney Company has brought a three-work evening to town that any chamber-sized contemporary dance company in the world would admire.

Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company — Elegance, Wit, and Enduring Innovation

February 15, 2026
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The question was how well these mid-20th century works would hold up and how, with the passing of time, those dances would look to both familiar and fresh eyes.

Dance Review: “circlusion” Turns the Mattress into a Stage for Reimagined Femininity

February 8, 2026
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As this duet unfolds, it opens the way to musings about how a bed is a human-sized rectangle on which are projected dreams and nightmares, sexuality and erotic boundaries.

Book Review: Choreographer George Balanchine — Cavalier or Creep?

January 8, 2026
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“Balanchine Finds His America” is written primarily in the present tense, so that reading the book is like watching a never-to-be-repeated dance performance.

Dance Review: Anne Plamondon Productions — Emotional Rescue

December 23, 2025
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In “Myokine”, the ensemble itself is under interrogation: can these dancers connect enough to rescue each other? Can they form bonds of solidarity?

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