What Kyle Abraham has done is to conjure up a wonderfully confusing vision into the myriad possibilities raised by the cycle of death and life again.
Jessica Lockhart
Dance Review: “The Just and the Blind” — Shackled, Humiliated, Scared
The Just and the Blind sends a needed and powerful message — it is 2022, we need to wake up!
Dance Review: Sankofa Danzafro’s Passionate and Painful “Accommodating Lie”
Sankofa Danzafro’s Accommodating Lie, is a bold work of art that delivers an indispensable history lesson.
Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet’s “Body and Soul” — Dark and Potent Boogie
Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.
Dance Review: Abilities Dance Boston’s “Firebird Ballet” — Taking Inspiring Flight
Re-envisioning and performing this beloved classic ballet with dancers that identify as disabled seems to me to be the definition of courageous.
Arts Feature: Dance Favorites of 2020
Community is what I miss most of all the pandemic’s deprivations—doing stuff with others.
Dance Review: “And Still You Must Swing” — Tap Dance as Exhilaration and Inspiration
This terrific performance was the grand finale from a beloved dance festival doing its best under enormous pressure.
Dance Review: Tero Saarinen Company’s “Borrowed Light” — Elegantly Elemental
Did Jacob’s Pillow want to remind us, now more than ever, of a famous phrase from a 1848 Shaker song: “Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free.”
Dance Review: Camille A. Brown & Dancers — Ease, Grace, and Jubilation
It was a treat to see Camille A. Brown & Dancers inhabit (and elaborate on) a number of different African American dance traditions with such winning ease and grace.
Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully
The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.