Dance

Favorite Dance Performances of 2018

December 28, 2018
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Our critics pick some of the highlights of the year in dance.

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Dance Review: City Ballet of Boston’s Urban Nutcracker — A Marvelous Mash-up

December 25, 2018
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This entertaining version of The Nutcracker reflects Boston’s rich multicultural diversity.

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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show

December 17, 2018
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Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.

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Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — The Warrior Femmes

December 4, 2018
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Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.

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Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham — Music Makes It

November 15, 2018
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John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.

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Dance Review: William Forsythe’s Mind/Body Art Show

November 2, 2018
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One thing I liked so much about this show, besides the mental and physical challenges, was its use of really simple and mundane materials.

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Dance Review: “Places Please!” — That’s Showbiz

October 22, 2018
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Places Please! looks at the backstage life and trauma of performers.

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Dance Review: Trajal Harrell — Seduction and Silk

September 24, 2018
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Now, we’re told, Trajal Harrell has been researching Butoh dance and hoochy coochy dance, hooking them up with the precursors of modern dance and slathering on generous amounts of gender theory.

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Dance Preview: The Latest Buzz about Luminarium Dance

September 16, 2018
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“The work is now stronger having successfully balanced both the needs of the visual choreography and the sound.”

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Time After Time

September 10, 2018
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Jerome Robbins makes me think about how nonverbal characters can inhabit their times.

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