Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.
Jessica Lockhart
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.
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.”
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.
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.