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All posts tagged "choreographers"
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138ReviewsMusic painted with moving bodies: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Blue Until June’
The Woodman Family and Cultural Center, Providence, RI.April 30, 2022. ”Dance is music made visible,” affirmed George Balanchine. Some dance artists would...
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444ReviewsThe people behind the movements, illustrated in movement and beyond: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s social justice video series
Released monthly from March 2022.Available at dtsbco.org. People marching together, signs in hand and chants coming deep from their belly: these are...
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727Feature ArticlesNew York City Ballet 2022 Spring Season opens April 19
New York City Ballet (NYCB)’s 2022 Spring Season will open on Tuesday, April 19, with a program featuring two works by the...
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361ReviewsMark Morris’ ‘L’Allegro’: In the space of timelessness
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.March 25, 2022. Mark Morris choreographed L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato in 1988, in Brussels at age 32. Since...
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341Feature ArticlesLa MaMa announces the 2022 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
La MaMa announces the lineup for the 17th edition of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Curated by Nicky Paraiso, the three-week festival will...
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729Feature ArticlesArts On Site: A women-led organization creating more opportunities for dance artists
If you’re a dance artist working in the New York City area, chances are that you’ve been to or at least heard...
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638Feature ArticlesLife with Ann Reinking: Stories by Deb McWaters, Part 5
Dance Informa continues its series on stories about Ann Reinking, written by colleague and friend Debra McWaters. Chapter 7: Rehearsals leading to the...
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922InterviewsDexter Carr named the first dance instructor for the Nike Training app
Nike is known for its innovative products, experiences and services to inspire athletes. Most recently, the brand opened its doors and welcomed...
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518Top StoriesAiley artistry reaches across America to bring dance to the people in person and online
From January 11 through May 8, audiences across the country will have the opportunity to experience the extraordinary artistry of Ailey with...
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663Feature ArticlesNew York City Ballet 2022 Winter Season to open January 27
New York City Ballet (NYCB) has announced that it is postponing the start of its 2022 Winter Season at Lincoln Center for...
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1.5KFeature ArticlesDance disguised as everyday life: 5 favorites from the new ‘West Side Story’
There are people who don’t like musicals. (I’m not one of them). A source of their dislike, so they say: why is...
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939Reviews‘Visitor Parking’ by mignolo dance: A multimedia piece exploring mental health
Gardenship Art, Kearny, NJ.December 11, 2021. Visitor Parking by mignolo dance allows audiences to walk in the footsteps of a patient navigating a...
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821ReviewsParsons Dance at The Joyce: Something new under the sun
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.December 9, 2021. When I requested to review Parsons Dance – meaning that I’d see the company live for...
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705ReviewsBoston Ballet’s ‘reSTART’: Pleasant dance for tough times
October 28-November 7, 2021.Available through BB at Home. For not the first time since March 2020, I logged on to watch a...
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1.1KDance Studio OwnerPina Bausch Foundation launches new online archives and website
On November 18, the Pina Bausch Foundation launched its new website. For the first time, materials from the extensive Pina Bausch Archives, which...
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863ReviewsSoulfulness in motion: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Fall 2021 All Access Season
Various premiere dates.Available streaming at Ailey All Access. Movement has the potential to convey soulfulness — the strength and resilience, the depths...
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722ReviewsWelcome to Campfire’s ‘SUBJECT’: The depths of humanity in unimaginable circumstances
Memredux Laboratories, New York, NY. November 9, 2021. In SUBJECT, produced by Welcome to Campfire, sparse, concrete space surrounds a brightly fluorescent lit glass-walled...
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717ReviewsCohesive meaning in the abstract: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Continuing Points’
Woodman Arts and Community Center, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI.October 24, 2021. Abstraction comes with compelling mystery; sometimes the answers are more...
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679ReviewsThe spirits of places: Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s ‘Initiation — In Love Solidarity’
Harvard Smith Center, Cambridge, MA, and via livestream.October 21, 2021. Wind rustling through leaves, the smell of saltwater at the seashore, the...
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869Feature ArticlesShannon Maynor and Alessandro Paganelli release first of 5 dance films
Dancer Shannon Maynor and composer Alessandro Paganelli have released dance film Nuda Veritas, the first part of Five Movements, a series of dance...
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1.2KReviewsDance diving deep into the stories of history: Rachel Linsky’s ‘Hidden’
Virtual premiere via Zoom.September 12, 2021. Tense muscles, heavy bones, churning and rumbling stomachs, heads swimming with pain and nausea: deprivation, psychosocial...
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1.9KFeature ArticlesCredit the Creator: An Instagram account for accountability
Do you know who choreographed the handshake in The Parent Trap? No? What about the Jingle Bell Rock dance from Mean Girls? You might...
