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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fuse Dance Review: Boston Ballet—Mahler Multiplex

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

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.

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.

Fuse Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers—Dense and Transparent Layers

October 20, 2015
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Doug Varone’s strong sense of design, color, and music lends depth and a certain mystery to his dances.

Dance Interview: Luminarium Dance Company goes “Spektrel” for Halloween

October 19, 2015
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The “treats” being offered throughout Spektrel’s four dances are an eclectic variety of movement, music, and moods.

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