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Dance Review: Short Story Long — Boston Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty”

May 4, 2017
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This Sleeping Beauty teaches the audience that fussy costumes and wigs and long-winded storytelling are the apex of ballet.

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Dance Review: Maureen Fleming at the ICA — Brilliant Movement

April 28, 2017
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Dancer/choreographer Maureen Fleming’s highly distinctive style of movement is unforgettable.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Kylián/ Wings of Wax”

March 26, 2017
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Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”

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Book Review: “With Ballet in My Soul” — The Vicissitudes of an Impresario

March 24, 2017
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Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.

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Dance Review: Popcorn from BODYTRAFFIC

March 14, 2017
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BODYTRAFFIC seems to be invested in a relentless likeability.

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Dance Review: Meredith Monk — Songs With and Without Words

March 2, 2017
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Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.

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Dance Review: At the Boston Ballet — Ballet as Drama

February 26, 2017
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Like a lot of first efforts by prospective masters, Artifact is loaded with ideas.

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Dance Review: At the ICA, Alessandro Sciarroni’s FOLK-S Mesmerizes

February 21, 2017
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The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.

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Dance Review: Gallim Dance’s “WHALE” — Strictly Small Fry

February 13, 2017
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Nothing in this over-lengthy work refers to whales, the ocean, or even the fishing industry.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance — Flowing with the Go

January 30, 2017
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I like to see dances that are somehow all of a piece. Hope this doesn’t mean I’m sinking into some kind of retro-fogeyism.

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