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Jessica Lockhart

Arts Feature: Dance Favorites of 2020

Community is what I miss most of all the pandemic’s deprivations—doing stuff with others.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Bereishit Dance Company, Camille A. Brown & Company:, Jacob Pillow Virtual Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Jose Limon Dance Company, Marcia B. Siegel, Mary Paula Hunter, POWER, Reggie Wilson, Thea Singer

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.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: And Still You Must Swing, Derek K. Grant, Dormeshia, Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival, Jason Samuel Smith, Jessica Lockhart

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.”

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Borrowed Light, Jacob's Pillow, Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival, Jessica Lockhart, Tero Saarinen Company

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.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Jessica Lockhart

Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully

The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Review Tagged: Bereishit Dance Company, Jessica Lockhart, Soonho Park

Dance Highlights 2019

The dance revolution of the 1960s and 70s seems to be making a comeback as dancers think about making their performances less artificial, more “natural.”

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Jessica Lockhart, Marcia B. Siegel, Mary Paula Hunter

Dance Review: “Object.” — Objectifying Women, Intensely

We are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Jessica Lockhart, Kairos Dance Theater, Object

Dance Review: Fernanda Ghi Dance Company — Passion, Fury, and Enigma

Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Andres Mario de Varona, Fernanda Ghi, Fernanda Ghi Dance Company, Global Arts Live, Jessica Lockhart

Dance Review: Red Sky Performance — A Stunning Look into the Origins of Things

Red Sky Performance’s hold-your-breath physicality provides plenty of “wow factor.”

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Jessica Lockhart, Red Sky Performance

Dance Review: “Gallim” — Extremes of Stress and Release

Gallim specializes in depicting raw emotions through movement.

By: Jessica Lockhart Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrea Miller, Gallim, Jessica Lockhart

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