Nicholas Van Young supplied an astounding display of virtuosity that seemed to amaze even the dancer himself.
Michelle Dorrance
Dance Review: Syncopations — Dorrance Dance in Concert
Dorrance’s partners dance jazz in the most basic way, for its propulsiveness and its amenability to individual imagination.
Dance Review: At Harvard Dance Center — Duet Variations
Featuring seven short dances by stellar choreographers of contemporary dance, the Harvard Dance Center’s spring program promised some rare enlightenment.
Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s “Blues Project” — Keeping Tap Alive
Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.
Dance Review: Crackling Out The Blues
This is Michelle Dorrance’s break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.