Oh, it’s a strange world, ballet — filled with rituals and practices that Mary Jane Doherty captures with sharp-eyed grace.
Janine Parker
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.
Fuse Feature: Best in Dance of 2015
Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.
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.”
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.
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.
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: 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.
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 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.