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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.

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.

Dance Review: Ids in Captivity

October 10, 2015
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Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

Dance Review: Choreographer Leonid Yakobson — Soviet Rebel Under Cover

September 22, 2015
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Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.

Dance Review: Choreographer Paul Taylor’s Extraordinary Domain — on Film

September 16, 2015
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A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.

Dance Feature: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre — Moving Like Brush Strokes

September 15, 2015
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“It was a dream of mine for many years to present the very best Asian dancers such as Cloud Gate for our audience and for dancers in the Pioneer Valley.”

Dance Commentary: Is Dance Criticism Dead?

September 1, 2015
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Neither dancers nor the dance audience are out on the barricades demanding more and better dance coverage.

Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook

August 3, 2015
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Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.

Fuse Dance Book Review: “The Ballet Lover’s Companion” — One Way of Looking at it

July 22, 2015
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Zoë Anderson’s volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today’s repertory.

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