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Marcia B. Siegel

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 — Reclaiming Space, Quarry Dance IX

The film allowed me to see the dancers’ connections to each other, and their connections to the quarries themselves.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Dušan Týnek, Lisa Hahn, Marcia B. Siegel, Quarry Dance IX, Russ Gershon, Windhover for Performing Arts

Dance Review/Commentary: “The Grand Union” — The Story of the Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance

This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Marcia B. Siegel, The Grand Union - Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, Wendy Perron, Wesleyan University Press

Dance Commentary: Sally Banes (1950-2020)

Dance critic, scholar, performer, activist Sally Banes died on 14 June in Philadelphia.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: Marcia B. Siegel, Mindy Aloff, Sally Banes

Dance Commentary: Paul Taylor — Now You See It, Virtually

I’ve always believed that dance has a literature, much like music or drama. Dance’s literature consists of both ideas (choreography) and the execution of ideas (performance).

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Marcia B. Siegel, Paul Taylor

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: “Giselle” Now — at the Boston Ballet

The performance I saw on Friday night revealed Boston Ballet’s priorities: while the dancers possess a high degree of technical skills, they have a looser notion of nuanced acting.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Boston-Ballet, Giselle, Larissa Ponomarkenko, Marcia B. Siegel

Dance Review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas — Phase by Phase

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker invites the audience to let go of outside distractions and meditate on our own deeper feelings.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, Marcia B. Siegel

Book Review: The Lives They Wrote

Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Books, Dance, Review Tagged: Balanchine & Beyond, Bettijane Sills, Broadway, Dancing With Merce Cunningham, Elizabeth McPherson, Marcia B. Siegel, Marianne Preger-Simon, Merce Cunningham

Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company of Israel — Strange Encounters and Outbursts

This mysterious dance may have no meaning at all beyond its cryptic theatricality and movement. Or it may mean a lot.

By: Marcia B. Siegel Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Batsheva Dance Company of Israel, Marcia B. Siegel, Ohad Naharin

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