Mary Paula Hunter

Dance Review: Maureen Fleming at the ICA — Brilliant Movement

April 28, 2017
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Dancer/choreographer Maureen Fleming’s highly distinctive style of movement is unforgettable.

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Visual Arts Review: A Luminous “Lumia” at Yale University Art Gallery

March 26, 2017
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The result is reminiscent of a Mark Rothko painting — if it was projected through the refracted light of a prism.

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Dance Review: Gallim Dance’s “WHALE” — Strictly Small Fry

February 13, 2017
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Nothing in this over-lengthy work refers to whales, the ocean, or even the fishing industry.

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Visual Arts Review: Virtual Reality Art — Not Ready for Prime Time

February 1, 2017
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Worse, humor and irony have no place in this show’s version of virtual reality.

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Theater Review: “Straight White Men” — No Surprises

November 21, 2016
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What the play lacks in surprise, the Wilbury treatment makes up for in excellent staging, acting, and a commitment to physical theater.

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Fuse Preview: Aurea — Breaking the Boundaries Between Words and Music

November 9, 2016
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Adventurous, exciting, and thought provoking, Aurea is dedicated to an interdisciplinary vision of the arts.

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Visual Arts Review: “Phantom Limb” — Diana Al-Hadid’s Art of the Meltdown

September 30, 2016
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Dissolution is a mysterious, and constant, element in Diana Al-Hadid’s vision.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Wilbury Theatre Group Mashes-up Politics

September 19, 2016
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Authoritarianism is at its most chilling, at least in the theater, when everyone, the weak and the strong, takes it for granted.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Todd Oldham’s “All of Everything” — Fashion, Playfully Beautiful

August 22, 2016
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There is an elemental democratic impulse in Todd Oldham’s work: for him, everyone deserves beauty and every outfit deserves to catch the eye.

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