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Dance Review: Meredith Monk — Songs With and Without Words

March 2, 2017
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Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.

Dance Review: At the ICA, Alessandro Sciarroni’s FOLK-S Mesmerizes

February 21, 2017
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The performance turned out to be a nervy but hypnotic game of endurance for performer and audience members.

Dance Review: Big Dance Party

October 17, 2016
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This is a theater of signals, like a fast-changing slide show of things we recognize and don’t quite recognize.

Fuse Dance Review: Doug Varone and Dancers—Dense and Transparent Layers

October 20, 2015
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Doug Varone’s strong sense of design, color, and music lends depth and a certain mystery to his dances.

Visual Arts Review: Arlene Shechet — Restoring the Wonder of Fine Ceramics

August 4, 2015
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In Arlene Shechet’s mischievous hands, the medium’s power as a shape shifter runs wild.

Dance Review: Howling Wolf—Abraham.In.Motion at the ICA

October 12, 2014
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One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham’s work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.

Visual Arts Review: At the ICA — The Many Pleasures That Fiber Can Offer

October 9, 2014
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Fiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas — gravity and the grid — and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.

Visual Arts Preview: Nick Cave and William Kentridge at the ICA

February 7, 2014
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Both of these exhibitions challenge our very notions of time and identity and the social structures around us.

Short Fuse Visual Arts News: What is Good Art? Me and Barry McGee

May 7, 2013
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I don’t understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.

Jazz Review — Pianist Donal Fox and Cellist Maya Beiser at the ICA

April 12, 2013
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Pianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.

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