I’ve always believed that dance has a literature, much like music or drama. Dance’s literature consists of both ideas (choreography) and the execution of ideas (performance).
Dance
Arts Commentary: Helping Dance at a Time of Social Distancing
How, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?
Dance Review: Camille A. Brown & Dancers — Ease, Grace, and Jubilation
It was a treat to see Camille A. Brown & Dancers inhabit (and elaborate on) a number of different African American dance traditions with such winning ease and grace.
Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “rEVOLUTION” — The Art of Evolution
Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION is memorable because of its duel commitment: it is both enormously entertaining as well as edifying.
Dance Review: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group — Powerful Gifts
There’s hardly a minute in this hour-long show that isn’t stirred by singing, clapping, stomping, and drumming.
Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully
The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.
Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — Going Berserk
The Boston Dance Theater’s talented group of dancers spent much of the performance nervously twitching and swaying.
Dance Highlights 2019
The dance revolution of the 1960s and 70s seems to be making a comeback as dancers think about making their performances less artificial, more “natural.”
Book Review: The ‘Papa’ of Male Modern Dance, Ted Shawn — A Story of Changing Norms
In this new biography, Ted Shawn is on display in all his narcissism, paternalism, hypocrisy, originality, and the dedication to creative expression that set American modern dance on its way.
Dance Review: “Object.” — Objectifying Women, Intensely
We are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.