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A Parisian Dream
REVIEWS | Rachel Howard

A Parisian Dream

A participatory eagerness, a desire to be part of something sweet and beautiful, suffused the return of George Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to San Francisco Ballet on the cusp of spring.

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Sparks Flew
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

Sparks Flew

Entering his 10th year as artistic director of Philadelphia Ballet, Ángel Corella put his artists through a ring of fire in their early spring concert at the Academy of Music.

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What the World Needs Now

What the World Needs Now

Mark Morris's “The Look of Love” begins with praise. Dancers stand in a circle facing inward with clasped hands and chests lifted as Burt Bacharach's “What the World Needs Now”...

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Mark Morris Dance Group: “The Look of Love”

Place

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, March 20, 2024

Words

Cecelia Whalen

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Precarious Movements
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Precarious Movements

If you believe, you can make yourself into Cerberus the three-headed dog-like monster, who guards the third circle of Hell, the circle of the gluttons, by buttoning together a couple of oversized shirts, and sitting together with two other people, in a huddle on the floor. 

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Down the Rabbit Hole
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Down the Rabbit Hole

It is a kaleidoscope of references, a whirligig of Alices, I carry with me to the third Melbourne season of Christopher Wheeldon’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” presented by the Australian Ballet, at the State Theatre in Melbourne. 

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Reaching for the Poetic
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Reaching for the Poetic

Nine hundred years ago in China, a renowned poet-artist named Su Dongpo (1037-1101) lived in Meishan, a city in Sichuan Province. He lived during the Song Dynasty, a prosperous period known for the proliferation of poetry and sophistication in visual arts underpinned by classical Chinese philosophy.

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Happy Birthday 92NY
FEATURES | Cecilia Whalen

Happy Birthday 92NY

The 92NY hosted a star-studded evening of dance on March 12th with performances by the Limón, Martha Graham, and Alvin Ailey II companies, as well as contemporary choreographers Omar Román de Jesús, Jamar Roberts, and Hope Boykin. 

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Jazz Age

Jazz Age

Talk about your OG—or, in this case, Original Gatsby! Indeed, Los Angeles-based American Contemporary Ballet (ACB) has set the bar(re) oh-so-high, with its Original Gatsby concept/concert, “Jazz,” that even F....

Performance

American Contemporary Ballet: “Jazz,” choreography by Lincoln Jones

Place

Bank of America Plaza, Los Angeles, California, March 1 – 22, 2024

Words

Victoria Looseleaf

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Beginner's Mind
FEATURES | Sophie Bress

Beginner's Mind

Lorie O’Toole steps back slightly, scanning the scene in front of her with a discerning eye. Eleven dancers move together, their limbs and torsos taking on the quality of water, their collective image becoming something like the ocean’s surf.

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Renegades
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

Renegades

Last week as certain ageist opinions were being aired in Washington, D.C., five performers in a tiny NYC East Village theater quietly made a case for the power of creative longevity. 

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Bunnymen

Bunnymen

The first few minutes of Pontus Lidberg’s “On the Nature of Rabbits,” confounds the viewer with a series of inexplicable images in quick succession. 

Performance

Pontus Lidberg: “On the Nature of Rabbits” 

Place

The Joyce Theater, New York, NY, March 7, 2024

Words

Candice Thompson

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A Night of Ideas
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

A Night of Ideas

Past the Gallery Kitchen, which for tonight has become an open mic Poets Café, I swim through the swirling 100-metre-long, multi-panelled Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence), woven by 13 Burarra women weavers, which hovers above the floor and makes the gallery a waterway. 

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Classic NYCB?
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Classic NYCB?

At the tail end of the New York City Ballet’s winter season, the sixth and final showing of the “Classic NYCB” program featured thrilling debuts: soloist Emma Von Enck and second-year corps de ballet member David Gabriel assumed the lead roles in Balanchine’s tricky “Ballo della Regina.”

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Martha Graham, A Life in Art

Martha Graham, A Life in Art

In Deborah Jowitt’s new biography of Martha Graham, Errand into the Maze, the iconic dancer and choreographer is made new, and radical, again.

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