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Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA

Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.

By: By Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: ICA, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mark-Morris

Fuse Dance Review: PERFORMANCE — A Parade of Passersby

No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Ali Naschke-Messing, ICA, PERFORMANCE, Rashaun Mitchell, Stephin Merrit, Summer Stages Dance

Film Review: The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival — A Very Good Year

An annual gathering of superb new animation from around the world. This year’s standouts include “Oh Willy…” from Belgium and “Virtuoso Virtual” from Germany.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: animation, ICA, The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival

Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: documentary, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jane Gillooly, Suitcase of Love and Shame

Dance Review: Putting the Id in Kid: Faye Driscoll at the ICA

Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and Aaron Mattocks stepped, bounced, shrieked and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Aaron Mattocks, Faye Driscoll, ICA, You're Me

Music Review / Commentary: Surprise Packages — Marc Ribot, solo guitar / Mostly Other People Do the Killing

Honesty is Best Policy Disclosure: I was in the hall to hear Mostly Other People Do the Killing. I’d heard the band on CD, and I knew that the only way I could appreciate them fully was to attend a performance.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: ICA, Marc Ribot, Mostly Other People Do the Killing

Coming Attractions in Film: September 2012

A list of unusual and compelling films coming up in September that you may not have a second chance to experience if you don’t plan your evening ahead!

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: 1871, Crazy Horse, Dark Horse, Frederick Wiseman, Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film, ICA, James Murphy, La Commune: Paris, Manhattan Short Film Festival, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, Maska, MFA, New Babylon, Shut Up and Play the Hits, The Quay Brothers, Through the Weeping Glass, Todd Solondz, What Time is Left

Visual Arts Commentary: Boston Mural Stirs Controversy

A mural painted on the side of a Big Dig ventilation structure in the Boston’s Financial District has generated enormous controversy.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Big Dig, ICA, Os Gemeos, Rose F. Kennedy Greenway

Short Fuse Commentary: Josiah McElheny and CERN — Researching the Possibilities

Art and science rebuffed each other in this show. Visitors are unlikely to leave with either a greater understanding of cosmology or of Josiah McElheny’s art.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Technology and the Arts Tagged: CERN, ICA, Josiah McElheny, Short Fuse, Some Pictures of the Infinite

Classical Music Sampler: June 2012

Far from being a down month, June marks the start of New England’s summer classical music season.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: A Far Cry, Boston Pops, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Musica-Viva, Bruce Brubaker, Calder Quartet, Chorus pro Musica, Hilary Hahn, ICA, John Bruce Yeh, John Cage, John Williams, Katherine Jacobson Fleischer, Leon Fleischer, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mohawk Trail Concerts, Philip Glass, Rockport Chamber Music Series, Silfra, Silk Road Ensemble, Tanglewood, Volker Bertelmann, Yo-Yo Ma

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