Dance
This terrific performance was the grand finale from a beloved dance festival doing its best under enormous pressure.
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Did Jacob’s Pillow want to remind us, now more than ever, of a famous phrase from a 1848 Shaker song: “Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free.”
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Kudos to Jacob’s Pillow for this stellar beginning to a digital season of dance.
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Dance critic, scholar, performer, activist Sally Banes died on 14 June in Philadelphia.
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Our eyes may be quarantined, but our minds are not.
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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).
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How, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?
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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.
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Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION is memorable because of its duel commitment: it is both enormously entertaining as well as edifying.
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Dance Feature: Sara Juli’s “Burnt-Out Wife” — Scorched
In Burnt-Out Wife, Maine-based performance artist Sara Juli takes on the unarticulated rage lurking in a long-term marriage with a deft touch and the humor of a born stand-up comic.
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