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MARCIA B. SIEGEL

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Illusion and bedrock

Invisible Wings, plus Henri Oguike and Bridgman/Packer at Jacob’s Pillow
Oguike, I think, makes movement like a mime artist.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  August 27, 2007

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Dances with character

Headlong Dance Theater, Chunky Move, Paul Taylor
Dancers are working with character more frequently, after decades of choreography drenched in physical accomplishment.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  August 01, 2007

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Neo-hoodoo and street kabuki

Fist and Heel at Concord’s Summer Stages and Kabuki in New York
Tradition: how to preserve it in a globalized modern culture.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  July 24, 2007

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Knots

Misnomer at Concord Academy
Like its name, Misnomer Dance Theater seems devoted to contrariness.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  July 17, 2007

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Postmodern cabaret

Susan Marshall and Doug Varone at Bard
The Spiegeltent at Bard College fits into two big trucks and can be raised in a couple of days by a crew of workers.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  July 10, 2007

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Two tales retold

NYCB’s The Nightingale and the Rose, ABT’s Sleeping Beauty
The big ballet companies are shackled tighter than ever to the idea of the story ballet.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 12, 2007

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Adventurous demos

Lorraine Chapman’s The Floating World , Snappy’s String Beings
With a variety of scrims, opaque panels, and lighting tricks, the seven dancers became the source for a dreamy succession of images by new-media artist Jonathan Bachrach.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 05, 2007

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Grief work

Prometheus's 'Devil's Wedding'
From dance to dance, they shared a movement vocabulary that suggested pain, struggle, solace, and submission to unseen but unbreakable constraints.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 29, 2007

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Lightweights

Mark Morris at the ICA, Latin Jazz at the Shubert
Two of Boston’s major dance series wound up their 2006–2007 season last week with low-calorie desserts.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 22, 2007

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Tragic tropes and anti-tropes

NYCB's Romeo , Boston Ballet's Giselle
The only question to ask about a new Romeo and Juliet, besides “Why?”, is “Why New York City Ballet?”
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 18, 2007

Converging streams

Ailey does Ailey and Tharp, plus Caitlin Corbett
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offered two milestones in the development of contemporary dance during its annual Celebrity Series visit to the Wang Theatre last week.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 01, 2007

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Untold tales

Bebe Miller at the ICA, Kelley Donovan at the Dance Complex
Some dances are made on specific story lines that they keep to themselves.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  April 26, 2007

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Why blame Chekhov?

Eifman’s Seagull, plus [bjm_danse] and Susan Marshall
The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg have been scavenging Russian literature for 30 years now in search of suitably theatrical subjects.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  April 02, 2007

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Warm with showers

Cirque Éloize at the Majestic
Cirque Éloize’s Rain culminates in an on-stage downpour, but the audience knows that in advance.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  March 20, 2007

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Building blocks

Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Marc Bamuthi Joseph
New ballets must be one of the world’s most expensive consumable products.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  March 06, 2007

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Physics at bay

Elizabeth Streb versus gravity
Elizabeth Streb has changed the name of what she does again.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 27, 2007

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Dreaming and remembrance

Boston Ballet’s Midsummer, Boston Conservatory’s Dark Elegies
Two momentous revivals in town showed us how big the category of classical ballet really is.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 21, 2007

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Eclecto-flamenco

Compañía Rafaela Carrasco at the Majestic
The house lights go down and the audience at the Cutler Majestic feels the opening space of the stage rather than seeing it.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 13, 2007

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Drama dance

Complexions at the Tsai Center
Half a century ago something known as dance drama occupied a large part of the modern-dance repertory.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 06, 2007

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Dance chant

Deborah Abel at MIT
According to Deborah Abel, breath is the key to self-awareness and a defense against the distractions of everyday life.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  January 30, 2007
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