Search Results: Debra Cash

Dance Review: “Diary of a Tap Dancer” — Say Their Names

December 29, 2024
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Is it possible to reclaim a marginalized legacy? And how do you step up to take a seat at the table when your history has been neglected and forgotten?

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Dance Commentary: Dance Giant Martha Graham — Genius at Risk

December 14, 2005
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Years of bitter and expensive litigation as well as the challenging nature of her work have put the artistic legacy of dance giant Martha Graham in crisis. By Debra Cash Imagine, for a moment, that the only people who could experience Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings were those who had lived during his lifetime. Future generations…

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Music Feature: Follow the Lieder — Discovering Lazar Weiner’s Yiddish Art Song

March 8, 2012
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When the Boston Jewish Music Festival presented a special afternoon of Lazar Weiner’s Yiddish Art Songs, it became clear that it’s time for a reappraisal that will bring these small, intense gems back into broader musical circulation.

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Desperate Dancing

August 28, 2004
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An indispensable new biography of Broadway legend Jerome Robbins reevaluates his life and work.

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Theatre Preview: A Chat with Basil Twist — Poetry Wins in “Book of Mountains and Seas”

April 16, 2024
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You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.

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Fuse News: The Perfect Book Review — Making Things Hot for Dan Brown’s “Inferno”

May 17, 2013
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Deadpan sarcasm perfectly pitched, absurdity of target (and publisher) punctured with a minimum of muss and fuss.

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Dance Commentary: The Phoenix Rises — A Reimagined Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow

July 13, 2025
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Jacob’s Pillow’s new Doris Duke Theatre is a complete triumph. It is, in artistic director Pamela Tatge’s words, “nothing like we had in mind but exactly what we thought.”

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Visual Arts Feature: Alla Kovgan, Treasure Hunter—Merce Cunningham at the ICA

October 22, 2015
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Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.

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Dance Feature: Sara Juli’s “Burnt-Out Wife” — Scorched

August 10, 2020
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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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Dance Commentary: Alone and Loving It

September 15, 2004
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The number of solo dance performances is growing, and it is not only because they are cheap to produce.

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