While jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about “fusion.”
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Fuse Film Review: The Ottawa Animation Shorts Festival
I recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
Coming Attractions in Film: February 2012
You may be still catching up on the Academy Award, Golden Globe, People’s Choice, or SAG picks. But this month offers some rare and wonderful treats for film fans of all kinds.
Fuse Dance Review: The Emperor’s New Threads
This is the fourth installment of Debra Cash’s coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Dance/Draw exhibition.
Dance Review: Going with the Flow — Trisha Brown Dance at ICA
This is the third installment of Debra Cash’s coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Dance/Draw — this time around its an appreciation of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Dance Review: Bel Tells — Cédric Andrieux through the lens of Jérôme Bel
The second installment in Debra Cash’s coverage of the ICA’s ambitious Dance/Draw series.
Visual Arts Feature: Lining It Up — Dance/Draw at the ICA
“Dance/Draw” at the ICA is a major exhibit about how moving bodies leave traces, what curator Helen Molesworth, not particularly originally, calls the “afterlife of dance.” To a lesser extent, it’s also about how visual artists think about motion when they’re not focused on particular bodies.
Coming Attractions in Theater: September 2010
A whole lot of deconstruction of the classics going on this month, along with productions of scripts by familiar homegrown names, from William Inge and David Mamet to Sarah Ruhl. A visit from a master puppeteer and a show about race that’s “recommended for mature audiences” look intriguing. By Bill Marx The Real Inspector Hound […]
Classical Music Sampler: August 2010
By Caldwell Titcomb August 3: The Old West Organ Society presents the award-winning, young organist Jacob Street in a program including works by Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, and Mendelssohn. He will also play music by Jean Langlais (1907-91) and Gaston Litaize (1909-91). At Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA, 8 p.m.
Theater Review: Superb American Bunraku
. . . these plays in their various modes approach the theater as a means of knowing and not merely as a means of expression. — Richard Gilman, “The Drama is Coming Now.” Disfarmer conceived, directed, and designed by Dan Hurlin. Original music by Dan Moses Scheier. Text by Sally Oswald. Part of the Emerging […]