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Pretty Woman
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Pretty Woman

“La Dame aux camélias” conveys the pain of the tragic love story between the celebrated, generous and doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier and the passionate, idealistic and tormented Armand Duval.

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Ode to Joy
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Ode to Joy

Joy is the goal of Parsons Dance. That is immediately apparent from the opening of the program for its New York season at the Joyce Theater: “Ludwig,” a brand-new David Parsons original, features all nine company dancers, smiling and dressed in varying shades of sunset oranges and yellows, moving vigorously to the second movement of Beethoven’s ninth symphony.

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Haunted House
REVIEWS | Cecilia Whalen

Haunted House

Cathy Weis’ SoHo loft is haunted. This is not because of the skeleton that dangles on the wall, or the iron hand that floats ominously above the piano. 537 Broadway—or Weis Acres, as the multi-media artist Weis dubs it—is enchanted by spirits of artists and eccentrics past.

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Be Like Water
REVIEWS | Rachel Howard

Be Like Water

Success, as so many artists know, can be a devilishly mixed blessing. On the San Francisco Bay Area’s aerial dance scene, which counts site-specific innovators Joanna Haigood and Jo Kreiter among its many notables, the company formerly known as Project Bandaloop has long attracted national attention for dances that scale Seattle’s Space Needle, or rappel down a 2500-foot-high rock face in Yosemite.

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Choreographic Collage
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Choreographic Collage

Oliver Savariego presents a collage of parts still moving, and perhaps ever destined to always be so, in a new solo work-in-progress, “Slapdash,” at the conclusion of his Front Studio Residency at Temperance Hall.

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Human Touch
SCREEN DANCE | Sarah Elgart

Human Touch

I was first introduced to the work of Margot Gelber when she submitted a film she choreographed and directed to Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival (D2D), the LA based, international Dance Film Festival that I founded.

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Breaking the Bank
REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Breaking the Bank

Every year since 1881 in the forests of northern California, a secretive club of male elites in the world of politics, finance, and culture gather to burn an effigy in front of a giant statue of an owl in order to leave behind the worries of the past.

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Into the Spirit World
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Into the Spirit World

Men: You can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t let ‘em die! Seriously, “Giselle,” the über-Romantic dance that premiered in Paris in 1841 and was the peak of the pre-Tchaikovsky ballets (before, for example, “Swan Lake”), was first presented by Los Angeles Ballet in its fifth season.

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Stepping Out of the Ring
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Stepping Out of the Ring

What gives a dance staying power? What makes any work of art continue to be relevant over time? These are questions I pondered while revisiting Andrea Miller’s “Blush,” performed by her company, Gallim, at 92NY’s Harkness Mainstage Series this spring.

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