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
As a group they are exuberant, personable, immediate, which in turn makes even the meh choreography palatable.
Fuse Dance Review: Bereishit Dance Company — Cosmopolitan Grace
Soon-Ho Park’s dancers seem imbued with the casual cosmopolitanism of their peers, but they reflect a deep seriousness in their craft.
Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015
Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.
Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance’s “The Wanderer” — Beware the Brook
Perhaps there’s no way to reproduce the subtlety of this work in the theater today. Our stages are so materialistic, so technological.
Fuse Dance Review: Company Wang Ramirez at Jacob’s Pillow — Love Hurts
Monchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.
Dance Review: A Heartfelt “Cinderella” at Jacob’s Pillow
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.
Dance Review: Crackling Out The Blues
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.
Coming Attractions: Regional Summer Dance Performances
Yes, there is dance in New England this summer, but those who love motion may need to embark on a little themselves to journey further afield to watch it. The trip, I can assure you, will be worth it.
Judicial Review #2: Serenade/The Proposition at Jacob’s Pillow
What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community—making power of interactivity. This is our second session. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! For dance critic Debra Cash, Serenade/The Proposition, the first of Bill T. Jones’s investigations […]