The performance I saw on Friday night revealed Boston Ballet’s priorities: while the dancers possess a high degree of technical skills, they have a looser notion of nuanced acting.
Dance
Dance Review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas — Phase by Phase
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker invites the audience to let go of outside distractions and meditate on our own deeper feelings.
Dance Review: Red Sky Performance — A Stunning Look into the Origins of Things
Red Sky Performance’s hold-your-breath physicality provides plenty of “wow factor.”
Dance Review: “Gallim” — Extremes of Stress and Release
Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.
Dance Review: “Dances by Isadora” — Freedom to Move
A passion for authenticity characterized this mesmerizing program from beginning to end.
Dance Preview: Dance Heginbotham’s “Common Fate” — Celebrating Synchronicity
Fresh from choreographing a Tony award-winning revival of Oklahoma!, John Heginbotham presents a world premiere in the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.
Dance Review: “Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends and Lovers” — Through the Lens of History
In this piece, Peter DiMuro asks a vital question: how has history informed the ways we look at queerness today?
Dance Review: “See You Yesterday” — Airing Nightmares
The horrors portrayed in See You Yesterday are facts, but this show does not yet address the meaning a new generation can make of those facts.
Theater Review: BalletX — Plenty of Spunk
Here was another (all-too) typical example of ballet companies reinforcing a patriarchy that hardly reflects the number of women in their ranks.
Book Review: The Lives They Wrote
Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.