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High Concepts and Power Moves
There is packaging, topicality, grand themes, elaborate stage designs, high concepts. And then there are moments when the flesh and...
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Finding Community
Community was a common theme in the Summer Sampler presented by ODC/Dance in July, with premieres by Dexandro Montalvo and...
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One Dance
In Seoul, South Korea, at the Jongmyo shrine, a royal ancestral ritual of prescribed music and dance is performed annually....
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Acosta Danza’s Choreographic Soup
An “Ajiaco” is a type of soup common to Colombia, Cuba, and Peru that combines a variety of different vegetables,...
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Dança! At the Hollywood Bowl
With the spate of great dance in Los Angeles this summer—from Oguri’s “dance comes out of time,” to Dutch National...
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The Tokyo Ballet's “Giselle”
When Théophile Gautier abandoned himself to “that misty, nocturnal poetry, that fantasmagoria” he found within the lines of Heinrich Heine,...
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Looking for Juan
The crowd of museum goers gathers around from multiple vantage points above and around the tiled, skylit courtyard of the...
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Mexicanismo
Teeming with riotous colors, an exhilarating original score, and dancing of the highest, indeed, most glorious order, “Frida,” performed by...
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Bet the House on Ballet X
Nicolo Fonte’s choreography first appeared on my radar when Aspen Santa Fe Ballet gave his “In Hidden Seconds” its Philadelphia...
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Swan in Love
Why is it so hard to find a good “Swan Lake” these days? The ballet is performed by practically every...
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Pioneering Spirit
In “Pioneers,” the new double bill from the pioneering Ballet Black, we are treated to two distinct works between which...
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Storytelling
At Kaatsbaan, the 153-acre cultural park in New York’s Hudson Valley, Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon performed the intriguing program...
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