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Dance Review: Magic Afoot

Energizing, joyful, expert, close to sure-fire, Chasing Magic was a great choice to reopen A.R.T. after the long pandemic shutdown.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: American Repertory Theater, Ayodele Casel, Chasing Magic, Crystal Monee Hall, Torya Beard

Short Fuse Podcast #44: Bloodlines, Punk, and Other Delights

Elizabeth Howard talks to Stephen Petronio, choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of the Stephen Petronio Company, about what plans forward-thinking artists have for the future.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Podcast Tagged: Bloodlines, Elizabeth Howard, Stephen Petronio

Dance Review Flashback: The Irrepressible Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow

I can still feel the exhilaration, the rush of the opening of things, from that day.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Byron Tittle, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Dorrance Dance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Thea Singer

Classical Album Review: François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles — “Stravinsky: Ballets Russes”

Texturally, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ serve up diaphanous performances.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ballets-Russes, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, Harmonia Mundi

Dance Review: LA’s Contra-Tiempo — An Ecstatic Dance for Justice

Contra-Tiempo sees the pandemic as an invitation for transformation: the performance questioned who we are, how do we move among each other, and what gives us joy.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Contra Tiempo – Activist Dance Theater, Contra-Tiempo, joyUS justUS, Las Cafeteras

Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet’s “Body and Soul” — Dark and Potent Boogie

Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Body and Soul, Crystal Pite, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Paris Opera Ballet

Dance Review: Abilities Dance Boston’s “Firebird Ballet” — Taking Inspiring Flight

Re-envisioning and performing this beloved classic ballet with dancers that identify as disabled seems to me to be the definition of courageous.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Abilities Dance Boston, Ellice Patterson, Firebird Ballet, Jessica Lockhart

Classical CD Review: Elliott Carter Ballets

Bottom line: these are excellent performances and a valuable documentation of Elliott Carter’s early work.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ballets, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ellliot Carter, Gil-Rose, Pocahontas, The Minotaur.

Classical CD Review: A Ballet of Human Sacrifice — Set in Ancient Mexico or Post–World War I Germany?

Egon Wellesz’s Weimar era critique of the cruelty of nations that are victorious in war still rings hauntingly true.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Music, Review Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Capriccio, Die Opferung des Gefangenen, Egon Wellesz, Friedrich Cerha, Ralph Locke, The Sacrifice of the Prisoner)

Dance Review: “Postcards from the Front” — A Pandemic Time Capsule

The 51-minute piece represents a digital time capsule. It comprises 16 short episodes — reflections in movement of lives caught inside the pandemic — crafted by dance-maker collaborators.

By: Thea Singer Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Irene Lutts, J. Michael Winward, Olivia Blaisdell, Peter DiMuro, Postcards from the Front, Public Displays of Motion

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