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Coded Messages
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

Coded Messages

Montreal based choreographer and artistic director, Virginie Brunelle’s eponymously named company performed its 2022 “Fables” at Penn Live Arts Zellerbach Theatre series on the brink of Women’s History month.

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New Wave
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

New Wave

What distinguishes a dancer from a choreographer? This is, in the end, an empirical question, one that can only be answered in the theatre.

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Americans in Paris
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Americans in Paris

There is something charmingly didactic and intellectually generous about American dance companies touring Europe. At the start of a performance, it is not unusual for a director to step forward and offer a brief introduction, explaining the reasons for the tour and sketching the wider context of the programme. Paris audiences experienced this with the Martha Graham Dance Company last autumn, and now again with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Robert Garland, at the helm of the ensemble, took a moment to anchor the performance in lineage, recalling the company’s origins and its illustrious founder, Arthur Mitchell. As Garland recounted, Mitchell...

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The Right to Party
REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

The Right to Party

What are you looking for in a night out in the theatre? Do you seek beauty? The ethereal? That may be the case for most at a ballet, but CCN Ballet de Lorraine’s double bill at the Southbank Centre wants to bring us on a whole trip.

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Feminine Mystique
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

Feminine Mystique

Dresses, domestic chores, grief. A community of women more feral than feminine. Five performers wear a changing selection of 40 dresses that serve as both costume and prop.

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