Dance
Contemporary 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Read MoreI wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.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.
Read More“It takes a special choreographer to make audiences laugh, reflect, and empathize.”
Read MoreMoses(es) has many layers of metaphor and suggestion, but the surface is always visually intriguing, musically imaginative
Read MoreThere was more than one reference to Alvin Ailey himself in Odetta, recalling Ailey’s frequent use of a female protagonist and his choices of other noted black artists as inspiration.
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