Janine Parker

Dance Preview: The Latest Buzz about Luminarium Dance

September 16, 2018
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“The work is now stronger having successfully balanced both the needs of the visual choreography and the sound.”

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

May 31, 2018
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Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?

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Dance Interview: Turkish-born Choreographer Korhan Basaran

January 25, 2018
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“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.”

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Favorite Dance Performances of 2017

December 30, 2017
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A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.

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Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch at BAM

October 2, 2017
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I will continue to watch Wenders’s Pina, over and over—but nothing can replicate being in the room with the real deals.

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

March 24, 2017
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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.

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Feature: Best in Dance of 2016

December 23, 2016
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Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.

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

October 17, 2016
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“Tokenism also plays into this issue. Some companies are hiring one dancer of color and they think they’ve done diversity.”

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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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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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