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Sara Hook at Harvard
Sara Hook explains the title of her cabaret piece Salad Days as a reference to youth and indiscretion.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| October 01, 2008
Ambling
Caitlin Corbett’s dance for the masses
Tom’s Wealth: A Dance for the Masses , which premiered last weekend at the Tsai Center, is about the physical equivalent of these toys and talismans.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| September 24, 2008
Winged feet
Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.
By:
DEBRA CASH
| September 11, 2008
Koozåpalooza
Cirque du Soleil at Bayside
The show could almost have been a metaphor for the national state of boisterous excitability.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| September 09, 2008
Dainty cabaret
Keigwin + Company bring the elements to Jacob’s Pillow
Larry Keigwin’s genial take on the perennially popular theme of the four elements (water, fire, earth, air) didn’t add anything profound to the cosmic intelligence.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| September 02, 2008
Lukewarm
Trey McIntyre at the Pillow
Are we in the midst of a dance boom?
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| August 27, 2008
Legs plus
Aspen Santa Fe at Jacob’s Pillow
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s program at Jacob’s Pillow last week sampled four choreographers while showing off the dynamic 11-member company.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| September 02, 2008
Funny bones
Stockholm 59° North at the Pillow
It was the darkly comic offerings of Mats Ek in the middle, and the personable interpretations that gave the evening its distinction.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| August 19, 2008
Soft power
Sara Rudner at Concord Academy and the ICA
It's neither a set piece of choreography nor an improvised free-for-all.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| August 04, 2008
Post-traumatic earth
Eiko + Koma and Tere O’Connor at Concord
With the most unassertive, seemingly egoless moves, Eiko & Koma can evoke the sensations and moods of a universe.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| July 23, 2008
States of unrest
Hofesh Schechter, Natural Dance Theatre, Ko + Edge at the Pillow
“Dance is a tool to look at other things,” choreographer Hofesh Shechter told an interviewer, but during the company’s US debut at Jacob’s Pillow last weekend you’d be forgiven for just looking at the fantastically virile dancing.
By:
DEBRA CASH
| July 15, 2008
Modern romantics
Mark Morris’s Romeo & Juliet ; Lar Lubovitch at the Pillow
Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare is less of a statement than a supposition: what if we did it a different way?
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| July 08, 2008
Young and old
Mark Morris at Tanglewood
The presence of company veterans infuses Mark Morris Dance Group with a maturity that both grounded and lifted this presentation to a higher plane.
By:
JANINE PARKER
| July 02, 2008
Rite of darkness
Heddy Maalem’s Sacre
Le Sacre du Printemps , with 14 dancers hailing from Senegal, Togo, Benin, Mali, Nigeria, and Mozambique, takes on black-on-black violence .
By:
DEBRA CASH
| July 03, 2008
Prodigies old and new
Tharp’s Rabbit and Rogue at ABT, Ratmansky and Robbins at NYCB
Tharp’s dances almost invariably have a euphoric effect on their first audiences, even when they miss their mark and don’t hold up over the long run.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| June 10, 2008
Dido's fate
Mark Morris at the Majestic
Henry Purcell might not have approved Mark Morris’s contemporary take on Dido and Aeneas, but he probably would have recognized it for its formality and anti-naturalism.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| June 03, 2008
Altar and ego
Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 30, 2008
Where the chips fell
Marjorie Morgan, Karl Cronin, Lucinda Childs, and Boston Ballet
Dance history reverberated across Boston during the past few weeks, affirming that how we live now owes a lot to how we’ve chosen to remember — and forget.
By:
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
| May 28, 2008
Russian revel?
Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 23, 2008
What's left behind
Tap Olé at the Regent, Rachid Ouramdane at the ICA, Prometheus at Boston Conservatory
Tap Olé is less a new-fangled bicultural fusion than a return to tap dancing’s foundational swingtime.
By:
DEBRA CASH
| May 21, 2008
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