To add another loop to the remarkable mesh of history investigated by the Bang Group, we should remember that the original choreographer of Annie Get Your Gun, Helen Tamiris, was married at the time to Daniel Nagrin, who was a featured dancer in the show. Nagrin died last December after a long career as a dancer and choreographer and teacher that included two seasons as a faculty member at Summer Stages Dance.
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- Tales of a country boy
Summer Stages Dance kicked off its 2010 performance series at Concord Academy a week ago Thursday with a film of a woman setting the table.
- Phantoms and fantasy
Poetry and dance have some common traits.
- Merce Cunningham at the ICA
When Merce Cunningham started his dance company in 1953, he was a major new force in American Art.
- Soft power
It's neither a set piece of choreography nor an improvised free-for-all.
- Year in Dance: Reusable histories & durable trends
Conservation is a good thing in these times, and some of the most interesting performances drew on the uses of history — personal history, performance history, and even some inventions that sought to overturn history.
- Stuck-togetherness
Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater performed three seriously zany works Thursday night under the title "Being Together," in their third appearance for Concord Academy Summer Stages Dance.
- Fusion forms
Modern dancers who aren’t tethered to a specific technique can forage the whole world for useful movement and effects. We saw three completely different examples recently.
- Stand-up choreography
David Parker was born too late for vaudeville.
- After-dinner nuts
The Christmas season careered to a finish January 5 at Concord Academy with yet another Nutcracker, sort of, the first complete Boston performance of David Parker’s Nut/Cracked.
- Review: Trajal Harrell's vogue and anti-vogue
Trajal Harrell's 20 Looks or Paris Is Burning at Judson Church (S) is as obscure as its title.
- Developing dances at the ICA
Summer Stages Dance wrapped its 14th season Saturday afternoon at the Institute of Contemporary Art with a presentation by four choreographers who've been working with the students at Concord Academy through July.
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