The traditional approach to choreography, which seeks to explore the possibilities of a limited number of phrases and moves, is still satisfying to me. I can see why a modern sensibility, with access to instantaneous, unlimited image-producing media, can read as hyperactive and intellectually lightweight.
Nell Breyer, who isn’t a dancer but a media artist, came up with the most engaging work, insula. The piece, like several others on the program, tumbled restlessly from one image to another, and I couldn’t say what it all meant. But it was enough that the two dancers, Kristin Ing Aune and Ashley Hensel-Browning, were sampling ideas of doubling, merging, and disappearing into projected versions of themselves, and giggling all the way.
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- Untold tales
Some dances are made on specific story lines that they keep to themselves.
- Sticks and bones
Kelley Donovan's Borrowed Bones at the Dance Complex last weekend featured Donovan and nine accomplices in 40 minutes of intense dancing.
- Ambling
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.
- 2009: The year in dance
You could say there were two tremendous forces that propelled dance into the world of modern culture: the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev and the choreography of Merce Cunningham.
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Thank you for carefully illustrating the intellectual dishonesty of the right wing’s number-one glory boy.
- The curatorial eye
Never merely illustrative, their unity seemed like the very source of Heaven.
- Monuments and miniatures
Harvard University’s Music Department and the Office for the Arts celebrated Leonard Bernstein’s work last weekend with “Boston to Broadway,” a festive symposium surrounded by exhibitions and concerts.
- Dancing in the year of the Rat
If you’re hot for Victoria’s Secret ads and addicted to Dancing with the Stars, Tango Fire will be right up your alley.
- La Môme|La Vie en Rose
As Piaf, Marion Cotillard is a lioness in the guise of a bird, with large, luminescent eyes that serve as windows into the singer’s troubled soul.
- Jill Aigrot
There’s no CD booklet, and in her acknowledgments, Aigrot thanks Olivier Gahan . Tant pis .
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Mozart's Requiem is one of the most controversial works in the classical repertory. Mozart had completed only parts of it and sketched other parts when he died, unexpectedly at age 35, in 1791. His death ignited immediate speculation and myth.
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