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Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show

Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Marcia B. Siegel, Twyla Tharp, Twyla Tharp -- Minimalism and Me

Dance Review: “Places Please!” — That’s Showbiz

Places Please! looks at the backstage life and trauma of performers.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Larry Keigwin, Marcia B. Siegel, Nicole Wolcott, Places Please!, World Music/CRASHarts

Dance Review: DanceUP’s Compound Fractions

Local chauvinism aside, the evening was a diverse one, at least in terms of dance genres.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander Davis, Billy and Bobby McLain, CRASHarts, Dance UP, Doppelgänger Dance Collective, Ian Berg, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, james morrow/THE MOVEMENT, Kat Nasti Dance, Marcia B. Siegel, Subject:Matter, Urbanity Dance, Wonder Twins

Visual Arts Commentary: The ICA — The Limits of Being an Icon

The nagging question: why didn’t the ICA didn’t create a building that offered options to be developed vertically?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: ICA Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Mark Favermann, the Watershed

Dance Review: Bill T. Jones — Pieces of a Conversation

Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: A Letter to My Nephew, B.T. Jones, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Janet Wong, Marcia B. Siegel

Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dança — Hip, Hipper, Hippest

Companhia de Dança of Rio de Janeiro applies a suggestion of narrative to the standard revue format..

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Companhia de Dança of Rio de Janeiro, Companhia Urbana de Dança, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Marica B. Siegel, Sonia Destri Lie, World Music/CRASHarts

Dance Review: Redefining Bling

The dancers in Yanira Castro’s company, a canary torsi, learned historically correct period movements.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: A Canary Torsi, Court/Garden, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Marcia B. Siegel, Yanira Castro

Visual Arts Commentary: The Black Mountain College Exhibition at the ICA—A Conventional Look at the Unconventional

I was not fully satisfied by the constraints of the exhibit, but I enjoyed seeing the work of those who made up the Black Mountain College community.

By: Allen Bramhall Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Allen Bramhall, Charles Olson, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Robert Creeley, Robert DuncanBlack Mountain College

Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957”

Other than a highway sign not much remains, but the artistic legacy of Black Mountain College is truly indelible.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Black Mountain College, Charles Giuliano, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957

Dance Review: Ids in Captivity

Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Faye Driscoll, Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Marcia B. Siegel

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