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Debra Cash

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Fuse News, Preview Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Dance, Debra Cash, J-R-Carroll, Jazz, Noah Schaffer, rock, Roots, World Music

Visual Arts Review: Indelible Chinese Shadows

Cut out of translucent and colored ox or donkey hide (sorry, PETA), they are foot and a half tall, two-dimensional figures operated by rods set up behind a slightly canted screen.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Featured, Theater, Visual Arts Tagged: Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, Chinese Shadow Puppets, Debra Cash, Pauline Benton, Red Gate: Pauline Benton and Chinese Shadow Theater

Judicial Review #2: Serenade/The Proposition at Jacob’s Pillow

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community—making power of interactivity. This is our second session. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! For dance critic Debra Cash, Serenade/The Proposition, the first of Bill T. Jones’s investigations […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Judicial Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Adina Ornstein, Anna Ornstein, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Bill-T.-Jones, criticism, Debra Cash, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Miriam Ornstein, Nina Silber, Serenade/The Proposition

Judicial Review Preview: Bill T. Jones’ American Pillars

In Serenade/The Proposition, the first of Bill T. Jones’ investigations into the myth and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the choreographer looks at history and history looks back. By Debra Cash Cash was the professional critic on the Judicial Review panel reacting to Bill T. Jones’ Serenade/The Proposition at Jacob’s Pillow, July 21 through 25. She […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Judicial Review Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, Arnie Zane, Berkshires, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Bill-T.-Jones, Dance, Debra Cash, Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Serenade/The Proposition

Arts Fuse Author: ‘Who Knows One’

By Bill Marx Critic Debra Cash’s excellent writings on dance can be found on The Arts Fuse. She has new book of poetry out, timed perfectly for the upcoming Jewish holiday. The lyrics in the volume Who Knows One are “based on stories, language, and associations connected to the Passover Haggadah.” Those who have admired […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Dance, Debra Cash, Haggadah, Jewish holidays, Passover, Poetry, Who Knows One

Dance Commentary: Holy Matrimony!

Given that gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts, Jacob’s Pillow may be a particularly apt site for both dance lovers and gay couples to tie the knot.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance Tagged: Debra Cash, Jacobs-Pillow, marriage

Dance Feature: Relax with the New

By Debra Cash Ella Baff, executive director of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, recently shared the revision of an article she wrote for Arts Manager International Magazine last year. Her first tip for audience members: “Relax. Remember that when you travel to a foreign country, you may not know the language, but this does not […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance Tagged: Dance, Debra Cash, Ella-Baff, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival

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