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Janine Parker

Dance Preview: The Latest Buzz about Luminarium Dance

“The work is now stronger having successfully balanced both the needs of the visual choreography and the sound.”

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Preview Tagged: Hiveland, Janine Parker, Kimberleigh Holman, Luminarium Dance, Merli V. Guerra

Dance Review: Wayne McGregor’s Anemic “Rite of Spring”

Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: AFTERITE, American Ballet Theatre, Janine Parker, Wayne McGregor

Dance Interview: Turkish-born Choreographer Korhan Basaran

“I’m trying to be at peace with not being a happy person. It’s ok to not be happy but to do something for the betterment of humanity.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Janine Parker, Korhan Basaran, Project RAu, Prometheus Dance, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Favorite Dance Performances of 2017

A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Janine Parker, Marcia B. Siegel, Mary Paula Hunter, Merli V. Guerra

Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch at BAM

I will continue to watch Wenders’s Pina, over and over—but nothing can replicate being in the room with the real deals.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: BAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Café Müller, Janine Parker, Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, The Rite of Spring

Book Review: “With Ballet in My Soul” — The Vicissitudes of an Impresario

Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: ballet, Eva Maze, impresario, Janine Parker, Moonstone Press, With Ballet in My Soul: Adventures of a Globetrotting Impresario

Feature: Best in Dance of 2016

Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: By Marcia B. Siegel, Janine Parker, Merli V. Guerra

Dance Preview: “Black Ballerina” — Sparking Conversations about Dance and Race

“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Interview, Preview, Television Tagged: Amanda Smith, Ashley Murphy, Bianca Fabré, Black Ballerina, Charlotte Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Delores Browne, Frances McElroy, Janine Parker, Jean-Pierre Bonnefou, Joan Myers Brown, PBS, Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadanco, Raven Wilkinson, Roy Kaiser, Shirley Road Productions, Virginia Johnson

Dance Review: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI — Multiculturalism, Inspired

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

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Compagnie Hervé Koubi, Hervé Koubi, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Janine Parker, multiculturalism, What the Day Owes to the Night, Yasmina Khadra

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Bereishit Dance Company, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Janine Parker

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