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All posts tagged "Brooke DiFrancesco"
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276ReviewsWho makes the magic?: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s 22nd annual ‘A Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 22, 2023. “Magic”. Maybe we think of fairies, elves, Santa Claus and any other number of mythical beings....
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255ReviewsThe fire of dance in us: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Catch Fire!’
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 20, 2023. Chi, ki, prana, baraka, mana: terms from different cultures and spiritual traditions that reference the...
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530Feature ArticlesIsland Moving Company becomes Newport Contemporary Ballet
Island Moving Company (IMC) has revealed its new name and branding at “Transforming our Future,” a special presentation held at the company’s...
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295ReviewsUnderstated elegance in Island Moving Company’s 2022 ‘Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 23, 2022. We so often associate The Nutcracker with a whole lot of pomp and circumstance: blizzards of...
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839ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Resonant Visions’: Dance for many purposes, in many places
Keats Theater, Barrington, RI.May 7, 2022. I was walking to a dance performance, and not through the sort of surroundings that are...
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817ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Masterful Movers’ 40th Anniversary Gala: Celebratory spectacle and excellence
Veterans Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.March 11, 2022. Booming music and soulful dance resonating into your flesh and bones: there’s nothing quite like...
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4.3KReviewsLess can truly be more: Island Moving Company’s 20th annual ‘A Newport Nutcracker’ at Rosecliff
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI.November 24, 2021. Clichés become clichés for a reason; however trite they come to feel, they contain a nugget...
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1.1KReviewsIt takes a village: Island Moving Company’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘La Palomba/Ascending’
October 17, 2021.The Lawn at Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a live performance....
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892ReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Return to Live’: Deep, thoughtful art
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 6, 2021. Returning to live performance — these days, it’s a development that can make dancers and...
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1.9KReviewsA young girl’s journey: Island Moving Company’s ‘Through Her Eyes – A Newport Nutcracker Reimagined’
December 10, 2020-January 3, 2021.Rhode Island PBS and through an online portal on islandmovingco.org. There’s a really special aspect of the iconic...
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2.1KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Out of Ruin’ and ‘Emerge’: Art bringing people together again
Cardines Field, Newport, RI; Blithewold Mansion, Bristol, RI.October 2, and October 9, 2020. A special thing about live art is how it...
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3.4KReviewsOuter and inner: ‘Where in Newport is Island Moving Company?’
Four Thursday afternoons in July and August.Various parks in Newport, RI. Live dance performance has an unparalleled, ephemeral magic. Part of that...
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3.3KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘A Newport Nutcracker’: Where the magic meets the realism
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, RI. November 27, 2019. Like ballet at large, a big part of The Nutcracker‘s allure is the space where magic...
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1.9KReviewsA collection of styles in Island Moving Company’s ‘A Collection of Attitudes’
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 9, 2019. When it comes to programming a multi-work dance performance, what does “diversity” mean? How...
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4.7KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Newport Nutcracker at Rosecliff’ reminds us of the magic
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island November 26, 2017. As children, we crave magic. We are easily enchanted as we discover more and...
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4.5KReviewsIsland Moving Company in ‘Open for Dancing’: Spirits of spaces
Newport, Rhode Island. September 24, 2017. Site work certainly has its challenges – legal, logistical and physical safety aspects. Yet what can...
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6.5KReviewsIsland Moving Company’s ‘Mother Goose’ and ‘A Collection of Attitudes’: A cohesive celebration
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 4, 2017. Successfully creating and presenting art involves striking several important balances. One of them is...
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5.0KReviewsNutcracker in Newport: Island Moving Company at Rosecliff Mansion
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. Wednesday, November 23. Dance began as an art form representing the culture from which it came. Even...
