Dance
Ballet steps from the classroom were sprinkled in with modern dance, moonwalking, shimmies, groping duets, and any other kind of movement.
This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don’t quite recognize.
“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”
This acrobatic physicality doesn’t come off as a test of testosterone or showboating.
The Boston Ballet II program was a miniature survey of classical ballet history, a perfect challenge for apprentice dancers.
As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.
Soon-Ho Park’s dancers seem imbued with the casual cosmopolitanism of their peers, but they reflect a deep seriousness in their craft.
The Bangs are masters in sending up the gelatinous sentimentality of popular culture, embracing it at the same time.
Josa-Jones is a unique mover, totally committed to her movement, and totally moving in every body part.
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