Dance

Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art

January 31, 2016
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South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

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Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015

December 19, 2015
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Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

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TV Review: “Flesh and Bone” — Once Again, Ballet as a Crazed Deathmatch

November 30, 2015
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If the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”

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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Gold Mine

November 25, 2015
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I saw the anniversary evening as being about Twyla Tharp’s perennial themes and preoccupations.

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Dance Review: Process Pieces From Harvard Dance Project

November 14, 2015
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Each of the ten or so music-less sections showed us a different way of composing movement.

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Dance Review: Monkeyhouse and the Ties That Bind

October 27, 2015
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I missed the trademark orange Dynel wigs and the zany non sequiturs of the past, but Karen Krolak and the crew were still playing with fractured language.

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Dance Review: Katie Workum / Kimberly Bartosik—Connecting and Disconnecting

October 26, 2015
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Both dances may limn our own Age of Anxiety, and the modern ways it manifests within us.

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Fuse Dance Review: Boston Ballet—Mahler Multiplex

October 24, 2015
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My overall impression of the ballet was of earnest pretension.

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Dance Review: “The Four Seasons” of Spellbound Contemporary Ballet—Smooth Brilliance

October 24, 2015
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The Spellbound Contemporary Ballet performed the U.S. premiere of Le Quattro Stagioni.

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Visual Arts Feature: Alla Kovgan, Treasure Hunter—Merce Cunningham at the ICA

October 22, 2015
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Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.

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