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All posts tagged "COVID"
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379Dance Studio OwnerHow to reinspire your dancers and teachers with a dance tour
After a long couple years of minimal performances and vacations due to Covid, travel is back! It’s exciting to be getting back...
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259Tips & Advice5 reasons to live and work in a smaller dance community: Making and connecting wherever you are
Something amazing is happening, all the time and all across this country, in cities and towns of all sizes and atmospheres: incredible...
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608Feature ArticlesAnother crazy year post-shutdown: So why are we still not innovating?
A few weeks ago, I read an article from a LinkedIn newsletter by Susanne Puerschel of R.I.S.E. Media that struck a nerve in me,...
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296ReviewsAbilities Dance Boston’s ‘Intersections’: Art for local action
Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.April 24, 2022. Art to spur social change isn’t anything new, and certainly not new to the work...
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351ReviewsMusic 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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1.8KTips & AdviceThe virtual audition: Obstacle or opportunity?
Let’s talk about virtual auditions. They started as a necessity out of the pandemic, and thankfully served as a way to keep our industry...
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924Dance Studio OwnerBest practices for disinfecting your studio and dance floor
Since 2020, the act of washing your hands, disinfecting everything in sight and wearing a mask for many activities has become something...
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766ReviewsOnStage Dance Company ‘Season 21’: A peek behind the camera
Capitol Theater Building, Arlington, MA (and streaming via OnStagedanceco.com).Film screenings January 9-11, and digital program streaming January 9. We all know and...
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667ReviewsThe march of time through confined space: Rourou Ye’s ‘May I dance on your screen?’
Streaming online at digitaldance.space.Premiered October 31, 2021. Life happens in both time and space, and so does dance. In both life and dance,...
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759InterviewsVisualizing clarity and purpose: VISIONS Contemporary Ballet’s Ranardo-Domeico Grays
There’s something special about small dance companies. For dancers, directors and administrative people, the challenges are great, but so are the rewards....
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850Feature 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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1.5KFeature ArticlesComing Back to Dance: Part II
Have you ever taken time away from dance? Dancers do so for multiple reasons, some intentional and some unintentional: pregnancy, injury, academics...
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435Feature ArticlesIrondale presents world premiere of Joanna Kotze’s ‘’lectric Eye’
Irondale will present choreographer and dancer Joanna Kotze’s world premiere of ‘lectric Eye, February 9-12, in its first live full-length evening of dance following the extensive...
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1.0KReviewsRe-envisioning a tradition: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘The Nutcracker’
The Vets Memorial Theater, Providence, RI.December 19, 2021. The Nutcracker, although younger than many story ballets, is quite a classic. Given its...
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995ReviewsThe treasure of tradition: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 2021 City Center Season
New York City Center, New York, NY.December 8, 2021. Walking through the streets of Manhattan on my way to take in Alvin...
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3.8KReviewsLess 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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1.5KReviewsWhat’s changed and what hasn’t: Boston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’ 2021
Citizens Bank Boston Opera House, Boston, MA.November 28, 2021. As live performances have returned to theaters this year, many questions have lingered...
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2.1KDance HealthComing Back to Dance
Part One Life has its seasons — shifting practicalities and needs leading us in different directions. Dance is a pursuit calling for...
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1.5KFeature ArticlesWhat are you grateful for this year?
After everything we and the world have been through this past year and change, there is certainly time to sit and reflect...
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1.8KFeature ArticlesStepping forward into the unknown, from the unknown: Has COVID crushed the arts?
When COVID effectively shut down the world in March of 2020, no one knew what would happen next or how long it...
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1.7KInterviewsEthan Stiefel brings American Repertory Ballet back home
It’s been one long intermission since American Repertory Ballet (ARB) last performed in a theater, in front of an audience. COVID paused the...
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1.3KReviewsMaking the best of constraints and challenges: Newport Dance Festival 2021
The lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 20-25, 2021. As was the case with most dance events last year,...
