The final video in Home Alone 2 is Fountain Dance with choreography by Judy Estey. We watch as several dancers walk the rim of a large fountain, pausing to pose now and again. The video is accompanied by the live Hunter, a la Laurie Anderson, in black slacks and heels, dancing sometimes in sync and sometimes in counterpoint to the figures on the screen.
The last two pieces involve surprises, which I won’t give away. Sarah Bot is performed to David Bowie and Brian Eno by the three JUMP! dancers, with much of their own choreography. The Unexpected (2000) is like one of Hunter’s anxious dream sequences, which she declares always stem from a true event. It’s Christmas Eve, and she’s making cookies with her five-year-old daughter when the whole house shakes and she looks out to see strange things in her neighborhood. To the tune of “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas,” each of the four young dancers and Hunter get into the holiday spirit, as well as the spirit of Home Alone 2, in her very own way.
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Two of this fall's dance performances will tell Halloween-style stories — a reprise of Viktor Plotnikov's THE WIDOW'S BROOM , by Festival Ballet Providence, and a premiere of Miki Ohlsen's DRACULA , by Island Moving Co.
- Step right in
Laura Reynolds, the young wife of a schoolmaster at a New England boys' boarding school in the '50s, has been advised about her proper role there: "Interested bystander."
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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.
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Frailty, thy name is society — or so suggest two comedies of manners currently on view but written 340 years apart.
- Boys Noize
Aficionados and connoisseurs of dance music qua dance music will find Oi Oi Oi a potent, concentrated dose of the undiluted pure stuff.
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago proved a worthy finale for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 75th-anniversary season.
- Tinseltown East
Looking at the photographs now, it’s hard to believe it ever existed.
- Rethinking Chekhov
Conventional wisdom and introductory drama classes describe Anton Chekhov’s final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard , as a prescient statement about his country’s future, written in 1903 as the playwright was dying.
- The Shakespeare mystery
What Shakespeare wrote and what he didn’t — even without bringing the Earl of Oxford into it — is one of literature’s most enduring and enjoyable mysteries.
- Breaking boundaries
Expanding the range of venues for artistic dance in southern Maine, the City Theater in Biddeford will host the second annual New England Dance Project on March 29.
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The Maine Jewish Film Festival’s 10th-anniversary brochure is a glossy foldout suggesting a newer, bigger, better festival to come.
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