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Dance Review Flashback: The Irrepressible Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow

September 22, 2021
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I can still feel the exhilaration, the rush of the opening of things, from that day.

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Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet’s “Body and Soul” — Dark and Potent Boogie

July 8, 2021
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Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.

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Dance Review: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI — Multiculturalism, Inspired

August 6, 2016
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This acrobatic physicality doesn’t come off as a test of testosterone or showboating.

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Fuse Dance Review: Gauthier Dance — Distinctive Exuberance

July 8, 2016
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As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.

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Dance Review: Bereishit Dance Company — Cosmopolitan Grace

July 2, 2016
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Soon-Ho Park’s dancers seem imbued with the casual cosmopolitanism of their peers, but they reflect a deep seriousness in their craft.

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Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015

December 19, 2015
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Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook

August 3, 2015
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Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.

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Fuse Dance Review: Company Wang Ramirez at Jacob’s Pillow — Love Hurts

July 18, 2015
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Monchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.

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Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow

June 27, 2015
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Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.

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Dance Review: Crackling Out The Blues

July 28, 2013
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This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.

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