Marcia B. Siegel

Dance Review: Classical, Three Ways, at Boston Ballet

May 10, 2017
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All of three of these ballets adapted the classical vocabulary and demonstrated that constant evolution is what keeps classicism alive.

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Dance Review: Short Story Long — Boston Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty”

May 4, 2017
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This Sleeping Beauty teaches the audience that fussy costumes and wigs and long-winded storytelling are the apex of ballet.

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Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Kylián/ Wings of Wax”

March 26, 2017
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Kylián’s astute choice of musical selections helped gave a structural shape to “Wings of Wax.”

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Dance Review: Popcorn from BODYTRAFFIC

March 14, 2017
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BODYTRAFFIC seems to be invested in a relentless likeability.

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Dance Review: Meredith Monk — Songs With and Without Words

March 2, 2017
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Any performance of Meredith Monk’s is spare to the point of enigma, and also tremendously evocative.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance — Flowing with the Go

January 30, 2017
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I like to see dances that are somehow all of a piece. Hope this doesn’t mean I’m sinking into some kind of retro-fogeyism.

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Dance Review: ODC/Dance — Science and Sensuality

January 23, 2017
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In both pieces on the ODC/Dance program, serious ideas underlay a lush movement language adorned with striking scenic effects.

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Dance Review: Syncopations — Dorrance Dance in Concert

January 17, 2017
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Dorrance’s partners dance jazz in the most basic way, for its propulsiveness and its amenability to individual imagination.

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Dance Review: The Sugar Rush of Boston Ballet’s “Nutcracker’

December 1, 2016
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Never mind my analytical observations, the Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker is still an immediate pleasure.

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Dance Review: Bill T. Jones — Pieces of a Conversation

November 14, 2016
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Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.

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