Dance

Theater Review: BalletX — Plenty of Spunk

May 15, 2019
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Here was another (all-too) typical example of ballet companies reinforcing a patriarchy that hardly reflects the number of women in their ranks.

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Book Review: The Lives They Wrote

May 2, 2019
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Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.

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Book Review: Dancer Ray Bolger — America’s Animated Cubist

April 13, 2019
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Via Ray Bolger’s trajectory we traverse the boards of Broadway and the silver screen of Hollywood — as well as the smaller, but equally thrilling, milieux of nightclubs and television studios.

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Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company of Israel — Strange Encounters and Outbursts

April 9, 2019
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This mysterious dance may have no meaning at all beyond its cryptic theatricality and movement. Or it may mean a lot.

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Dance Feature: Boston Dance Alliance Celebrates Tony Williams and Duggan Hill

March 19, 2019
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Although hailing from different backgrounds, Tony Williams and Duggan Hill share important commonalities, most notably their engagement with urban youth.

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Dance Review: It’s Party Time — Monica Bill Barnes & Company

March 17, 2019
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Monica Bill Barnes, a dancer-choreographer, mime, storyteller and soft satirist, has riffed in the past on the pitfalls of dancing, the vanity of performers, the absurdities of adolescence. Now she’s looking at gender displacements and assertions.

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Dance Review: “Full on Forsythe” — Revolutionary

March 12, 2019
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William Forsythe asks dancers to go beyond their mastery of technique — in order to have the music move audiences to a higher level of emotional involvement.

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Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s — Fab Four Plus

February 12, 2019
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Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson chose songs from the famous album for reflection and extrapolation. What they made is an entertainment, a romp for the company’s terrific dancers.

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Dance Review: Prometheus Dance @ 30

February 1, 2019
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The question is whether this evening of dance was supposed to be engaging or enraging — or both.

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Dance Review: Danza Orgánica — Pushing UP

January 28, 2019
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What few signs of the rich culture embedded in Danza Orgánica’s artistic director and choreographer Marsha Parrilla’s heritage made token appearances.

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