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Review: Caitlin Corbett, Daniel McCusker, and Kelley Donovan at the ICA

Sound and fury
The title of Daniel McCusker's premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Art last weekend was Hidden Noise , but the sound template for the five works on the program was noise in plain earshot.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 05, 2010

Review: Doug Elkins's Fräulein Maria

The jest of music at the Paramount
Doug Elkins's Fräulein Maria at the Paramount

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | September 28, 2010

Fall Dance Preview: Kick up your heels!

Dance around town
Fall dance starts at the very beginning, which is a very good place to start, with Doug Elkins and Friends’ hilarious send-up of The Sound of Music , and continues straight through to the brink of the holiday season with an authentic Gypsy “Ole!” from a pair of flamenco cousins.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 16, 2010

Taporama

Students and teachers at the Arsenal
Teaching is a deep experience in tap dancing, and it's not confined to technique instruction in the studio.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 24, 2010

Review: The Trocks at Jacob's Pillow

Also Kyle Abraham
Seeing Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo a week ago Wednesday in Jacob's Pillow's rustic Ted Shawn Theatre, surrounded by nattering mosquitoes, katydids, and picnickers, was probably no more incongruous than the mission of the company itself.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 17, 2010

Double exposure

Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez at the ICA, Monica Bill Barnes at Jacob's Pillow
Summer Stages Dance and the Institute of Contemporary Art's second "Co-Lab" production a week ago Wednesday was less like a team effort than a game with a stacked deck.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 04, 2010

Tales of a country boy

Dan Wagoner’s handmade dance
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.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 22, 2010

Photos: Boston Ballet tours Spain

Scenes from the Boston Ballet's five-week tour of Spain
Boston Ballet dancers Jeffrey Cirio and Sabi Varga "have been snapping images like crazy" during the company's five-week trip to Spain -- see what they caught in their lens.

By: JEFFREY CIRIO AND SABI VARGA | July 09, 2010

Photos: Boston Ballet presents Black & White (2010)

Boston Ballet presents Jiří Kylián’s Black & White
Boston Ballet's reprise of Jiří Kylián’s Black & White

By: ROSALIE O'CONNOR | May 28, 2010

Second sight

Boston Ballet reprises Jiří Kylián’s Black & White
May in Boston has always been Storybook Ballet Month, as Boston Ballet finished off its season with Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty or Don Quixote , something classical and highbrow and reassuring. That, after all, is what Boston audiences want, right?

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 28, 2010

Sparring with the Ultimate

Boston Ballet in The Four Temperaments, Apollo, and Theme and Variations
There’s never been a more brilliant exemplar of the ballet art than George Balanchine.

By: MARICA B. SIEGEL | May 11, 2010

Theme and variations

Boston Ballet’s ‘Ultimate Balanchine’
George Balanchine was famous for “non-story” ballets, but when you put three of his works — the usual number to fill up an evening — together, you always get some kind of narrative.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 13, 2010

Meta-theater

Tim Rushton bring existential relevance to town
Choreographer Tim Rushton makes unusual, high-powered dance movement and blends it with slick but modest theatrical appurtenances, sound scores that claim your attention, and important program notes.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 04, 2010

Offerings

Nora Chipaumire and Thomas Mapfumo at the ICA, BoSoma and Contrapose at BU
Nora Chipaumire’s lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukarahundi , presented at the ICA last weekend by CRASHarts, had the makings of a multimedia extravaganza.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 27, 2010

Happy returns

Boston Ballet’s Coppélia , Alvin Ailey at the Wang
George Balanchine didn’t go in for productions of the old classic ballets.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 20, 2010

Here’s looking at you

Boston Ballet sees into the heart of Coppélia
Set in the usual small village — this one in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe — Coppélia might look like just another pleasant 19th-century ballet about a boy, a girl, and another girl. But appearances can be deceiving — and that’s theme of this work, whose title character is a life-size mechanical doll.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | April 30, 2010

Conductor karaoke

Xavier Le Roy at the ICA
Surrealists who work with movement have to manage a demanding slight-of-hand.

By: DEBRA CASH | April 06, 2010

Airs and graces

Stephen Petronio at the ICA, Black Grace at the Paramount
Somewhere in the middle of Stephen Petronio’s terrific hour-long dance I Drink the Air Before Me last Friday night, the dancers exited and the space went dark.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 23, 2010

High stepping

Dancing with the stars
The heavy-hitter repertory shows this season come from ALVIN AILEY and GEORGE BALANCHINE . But why not welcome spring by taking a chance on fresh experiences as well?

By: DEBRA CASH | March 11, 2010

Old masters

Anna Sokolow and Joseph Gifford
Last month, students at Boston Conservatory and Boston University paid tribute to two notables of modern dance's second generation in the best possible way: by performing their work.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 02, 2010

Flickers

'11+1' at Outpost 186
The hour's worth of film and dance that followed my absurdist journey offered flashbacks, edges, mysterious messages, and a thunderstorm. In 1924, Tristan Tzara described Dada as a resistance to the pretensions of art, "a snow of butterflies released from the head of a prestidigitator." I left Inman Square feeling energized.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 09, 2010

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