Marcia B. Siegel

Favorite Dance Performances of 2017

December 30, 2017
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A quartet of critics serve up the highlights in dance for 2017.

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Dance Review: Assorted Nuts

December 19, 2017
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One thing the traditional Nutcracker doesn’t do is funny, though it can be charming and even amusing.

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Dance Review: “New Work for Goldberg Variations” — Probing the Infinite

December 11, 2017
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One fascinating aspect of this collaboration is that the dance and music harmonize but don’t mimic each other.

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Dance Film Preview: Mapping the Taps — Two Superb Documentaries

November 14, 2017
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The tap challenge, sometimes good natured, sometimes prickly, is at the heart of both of these remarkable documentaries.

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Dance Review: Classical Plus at Boston Ballet

November 7, 2017
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The Boston Ballet’s program was meant as a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence.

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Dance Review: DanceUP’s Compound Fractions

September 27, 2017
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Local chauvinism aside, the evening was a diverse one, at least in terms of dance genres.

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Dance Review: Skeleton Architecture — Embracing the Silence

July 27, 2017
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I enjoyed the working-out of all this material, and the beautiful dancers, but I sometimes felt I was back in the consciousness-raising ’60s and ’70s.

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Dance Review: Bubbles at the Dance Complex

June 23, 2017
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The idea of the project is to cross-fertilize new dance in the two cities (Boston and New York) by presenting choreography in cabaret settings.

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Dance Review: L.A. Dance Project — Dancing All Over the Place

May 24, 2017
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All three pieces delivered eclectic dancing, appealing bodies, unostentatious scenic effects, and trendy but serious music.

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Dance Review: Beth Gill’s Passages

May 16, 2017
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Offering a carefully calibrated, nearly static universe, Beth Gill relies on the audience’s imagination to fill in any question marks

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