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Dance Review: American Ballet Theatre’s Eye-Popper of a “Sleeping Beauty”

June 17, 2015
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Few companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company’s desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.

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Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2015

May 30, 2015
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Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.

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Fuse Dance Review: Two Oldies-But-Goodies Handled with Care

May 27, 2015
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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.

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Film Review: You Can Go Home Again (If You’re a Star)

May 26, 2015
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What happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?

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Dance/Music Preview: Chorus pro Musica’s Spring “Wedding” — A Marriage of Music and Dance

May 25, 2015
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Jamie 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.”

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Dance Review: …And Farewell — Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

May 18, 2015
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Contemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet — Play With Music

May 17, 2015
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Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.

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Fuse Dance Review: The Bang Group and Elders Ensemble — Grownups

May 6, 2015
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I wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.

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Dance Preview: MOMIX — Not Your Average Dance Company

May 4, 2015
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MOMIX proffers something for everyone: acrobatics, dance, theatre, and delightful visual deception.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Edge of Vision” — Cascades

May 2, 2015
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The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.

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