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Janine Parker

Film Review: “Primaria” — A Penetrating View of the Cuban Ballet System

Oh, it’s a strange world, ballet — filled with rituals and practices that Mary Jane Doherty captures with sharp-eyed grace.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Cuban arts, Cuban Ballet system, documentary, Janine Parker, Mary Jane Doherty, Primaria, Secondaria

Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art

South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Dada Masilo, Dance Factory Johannesburg, Janine Parker, South Africa, Swan-Lake, The Joyce Theater

Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015

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

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Gauthier Dance, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Janine Parker, Jessica Lang Dance, Liz Gerring, Marcia B. Siegel, Misty Copeland, New York City Ballet

TV Review: “Flesh and Bone” — Once Again, Ballet as a Crazed Deathmatch

If the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Flesh and Bone, Janine Parker, Moira Walley-Beckett, Sarah Hay, Starz

Fuse Dance Review: Katie Workum / Kimberly Bartosik—Connecting and Disconnecting

Both dances may limn our own Age of Anxiety, and the modern ways it manifests within us.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Black Lakes, Burr Johnson, dancers, Dylan Crossman, Ecsteriority4, Ecsteriority4 (Part 2), Jacobs-Pillow, Janine Parker, Katie Workum, Kimberly Bartosik, MASS MoCA, Melissa Toogood

Dance Interview: Luminarium Dance Company goes “Spektrel” for Halloween

The “treats” being offered throughout Spektrel’s four dances are an eclectic variety of movement, music, and moods.

By: Janine Parker Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: Janine Parker, Kimberleigh A. Holman, Luminarium Dance Company, Merli V. Guerra, Multicultural Arts Center, Spektral

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.

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

Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance — An Uneven Outing

“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Janine Parker, Jeanette Delgado, Megan LeCrone, Tom Gold Dance

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

for Elena Zahlman as Cinderella

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.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Cinderella, Jacobs-Pillow-Dance-Festival, Janine Parker, New York Theatre Ballet

Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: American Ballet Theatre, ballet, Ballet West, Boston-Ballet, CityDance, Janine Parker, Misty Copeland, race, Swan-Lake

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