Dance
The performers must be so deeply invested in what they are doing that we are caught up in the narrative as its cobwebs are brushed away.
Read MoreWhat happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?
Read MoreJamie Kirsch describes Les Noces as “a non-stop, energetic, tour-de-force ride that lasts 25 minutes without a break and leaves you breathless by the end.”
Read MoreContemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.
Read MoreTwo 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
Read MoreI wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.
Read MoreMOMIX proffers something for everyone: acrobatics, dance, theatre, and delightful visual deception.
Read MoreThe three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.
Read MoreRUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience with thrills, it can also imply human relationships.
Read MoreFeaturing seven short dances by stellar choreographers of contemporary dance, the Harvard Dance Center’s spring program promised some rare enlightenment.
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