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Dance Review: Dancing with Ancestors

Urban Bush Women go back to the past in the name of a more communal and compassionate future. By Debra Cash View Gallery The names of Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Dubois, Shirley Chishom and Ossie Davis roll down like a mighty stream. On stage, Amara Tabor-Smith of the Urban Bush Women reaches across space, at turns […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review

Drawing Audiences to Dance

The challenge of building a new dance audience lies in presenting, and contextualizing, thought-provoking work

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance Tagged: anna-Kisselgoff, ballet, Dance

Dance Review: Race and Dance

Dance icon Bill T. Jones confounds expectations about race and the power of stereotypes in two new dance pieces. “Reading, Mercy and the Artificial Nigger” and “Mercy 10×8 On a Circle” by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company By Debra Cash Bill T. Jones would no doubt take umbrage at being compared to the white […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Arnie-Zane-Dance-Company, Bill-T.-Jones, Dance, Flanery-OConnor, race

Dance Commentary: Facing Mekka

A new dance show by Rennie Harris serves as a valuable response to MTV’s commercialization of hip hop.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: Dance, Hip Hop, Rennie-Harris

Wanted: Inspired Choreographers

Students and audiences of tomorrow deserve exposure to great dances, but they are not always getting them.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance Tagged: choreography, Dance, students

Dance Commentary: Alone and Loving It

The number of solo dance performances is growing, and it is not only because they are cheap to produce.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance Tagged: Dance, solo

Desperate Dancing

An indispensable new biography of Broadway legend Jerome Robbins reevaluates his life and work.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance Tagged: Broadway, Dance, Jerome-Robbins

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