What few signs of the rich culture embedded in Danza Orgánica’s artistic director and choreographer Marsha Parrilla’s heritage made token appearances.
Dance
Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s Tapestration
I thought I’d never seen such a thrilling example of how dance and music can combine and feed each other.
Book Review: “Physics & Dance” — The Intelligence of Movement
The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing — an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics’ theories and abstractions.
Favorite Dance Performances of 2018
Our critics pick some of the highlights of the year in dance.
Dance Review: City Ballet of Boston’s Urban Nutcracker — A Marvelous Mash-up
This entertaining version of The Nutcracker reflects Boston’s rich multicultural diversity.
Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show
Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.
Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — The Warrior Femmes
Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.
Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham — Music Makes It
John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.
Dance Review: William Forsythe’s Mind/Body Art Show
One thing I liked so much about this show, besides the mental and physical challenges, was its use of really simple and mundane materials.
Dance Review: “Places Please!” — That’s Showbiz
Places Please! looks at the backstage life and trauma of performers.