I liked the ungimmicky achievers the best, especially juggler Anthony Gatto, who could keep a dozen rings moving so fast in the air that they made collective looping designs, rhythms almost. Gatto could change these trace forms at will, then catch the rings one by one on his arms as they came down.
Then there were the two men who kept a huge object turning by running on the inside and outside rims of its double eight-foot wheels. This “Wheel of Death” hovered above the floor like a spaceship. Elizabeth Streb and her pop-action performers were playing around with something like it last year at the ICA. When the Koozå treadmillers got their twin wheels turning really fast and the ship lofted high into the stratosphere, I shut my eyes.
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- Memory book
It’s the time of year when you swear you’re going to finish all those special projects you started and clean out the files and scour the closets of junk you never wear.
- Sunday school
Ronald K. Brown’s flamboyant choreography comes with a big serving of spirituality.
- Blood, bone, and mirrors
At the beginning of Between Blood & Bone , a man and a woman stand at opposite sides of an empty space. A few minutes or a lifetime later, they're curled together on the floor, wrapped in the tightest possible embrace.
- Legs plus
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s program at Jacob’s Pillow last week sampled four choreographers while showing off the dynamic 11-member company.
- Gongs with robot
The Balinese gamelan, a close-knit ensemble of percussion, flute, and voices, preserves some of the oldest music in the world as an essential part of ritual and secular occasions.
- Gambits in repertory
Ohad Naharin’s Minus One isn’t a single piece of choreography.
- Warm with showers
Cirque Éloize’s Rain culminates in an on-stage downpour, but the audience knows that in advance.
- Definitions
Boston Ballet’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, wants us to think of his company as utterly contemporary, but it’s a tricky balance to pull off.
- Snacks
The most substantial item in the assortment of dances by the Trey McIntyre Project last weekend was an oddly proportioned 20-minute meditation on climate change and Glacier National Park. McIntyre, whose company appeared at the ICA as part of the CRASHarts series, has gotten a lot of press exposure as an up-and-coming choreographer with serious ideas.
- Teasers and tidbits
The puppeteer’s face and body reflect what the puppet is going through, as if the puppet were giving life to him instead of the other way around.
- Great music, great dance
An excerpt from Phoenix dance critic Marcia B. Siegel's Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance .
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