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Fuse Commentary: Five Minutes With NEA Chairman Jane Chu

May 6, 2015
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God speed Chairman Chu on her mission to make the fine arts less marginalized in a determinedly bottom line culture, obsessed with the pragmatic rather than the imaginative.

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Fuse Film Review: Jewishfilm 2015 — Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut, Sometimes You Don’t

May 6, 2015
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Both of these entries in Jewishfilm 2015 have their entertaining moments, but the movies ultimately fail to deliver.

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Theater Review: “Scenes From An Adultery” — Where’s the Sex?

May 5, 2015
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Ronan Noone’s allegedly frisky sex farce is bloodless.

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Poetry Review: Peter Gizzi’s “In Defense of Nothing” — Poetry as the Fruit of Bewilderment

May 5, 2015
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Peter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One

May 4, 2015
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Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.

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Dance Preview: MOMIX — Not Your Average Dance Company

May 4, 2015
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MOMIX proffers something for everyone: acrobatics, dance, theatre, and delightful visual deception.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 3, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Theater Review: “The Grand Parade” — History as an Imaginative Pageant

May 3, 2015
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The Grand Parade is a truly sumptuous feast of imagination, color, emotion and movement; a uniquely dramatic way of interpreting our history as a torrent of events presented without judgment.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Edge of Vision” — Cascades

May 2, 2015
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The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.

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Film Interview: Director James D. Cooper on “Lambert & Stamp” — Creating The Who

May 2, 2015
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Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.

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