Two autobiographies by women who had some experience in legitimate theater, but they each gave their strongest allegiance to dance, specifically one choreographer.
Marcia B. Siegel
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.
Dance Review: It’s Party Time — Monica Bill Barnes & Company
Monica Bill Barnes, a dancer-choreographer, mime, storyteller and soft satirist, has riffed in the past on the pitfalls of dancing, the vanity of performers, the absurdities of adolescence. Now she’s looking at gender displacements and assertions.
Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s — Fab Four Plus
Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson chose songs from the famous album for reflection and extrapolation. What they made is an entertainment, a romp for the company’s terrific dancers.
Dance Review: Danza Orgánica — Pushing UP
What few signs of the rich culture embedded in Danza Orgánica’s artistic director and choreographer Marsha Parrilla’s heritage made token appearances.
Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s Tapestration
I thought I’d never seen such a thrilling example of how dance and music can combine and feed each other.
Favorite Dance Performances of 2018
Our critics pick some of the highlights of the year in dance.
Dance Review: Twyla Tharp’s Boston Show
Dressed in cream-colored pants, a crisp white shirt, sneakers, and big owlish spectacles with red plastic frames, Twyla Tharp played the professor in the first part of the 90-minute show.
Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater — The Warrior Femmes
Boston Dance Theater’s four pieces seemed to counter female stereotypes but raised limited alternatives.
Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham — Music Makes It
John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.