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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre.
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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. They mingle in the ether with the Alice conjured direct from my own reading of the Lewis Carroll classic, and the memory of that encounter. From Lauren Cuthbertson in 2017 to Ako Kondo and Amber Scott in 2019, in 2024, my Alice guides are Sharni Spencer and Benedicte Bemet, on the Tuesday and the Wednesday nights, respectively. Each Alice within the tale shapes the role accordingly, and so Spencer’s gentle and trusting of the “wildest impossibilities” Alice, and Bemet’s joyful and “wildly curious” Alice form a magical gallery of Alices who I follow about the stage as they in turn follow a twitching, scurrying, quick-changing White Rabbit.[1]
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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre.
Continue Reading“I can’t even stand it,” exclaimed Tina Finkelman Berkett about the Perenchio Foundation grant that her dance troupe, BodyTraffic, recently received.
Continue ReadingBeneath a tree also over a century old is where I meet dancer and artist Eileen Kramer, and where the 60-minute loop will end. And it feels fitting, on the heels of her recent death on November 15, 2024, at 110-years-of-age, to start here, at effectively the end of Sue Healey’s screening of On View: Icons.
FREE ARTICLEHubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Fall Series will entertain you. Deftly curated, with choreographers ranging from Aszure Barton to Bob Fosse, Hubbard’s dancers ably morph through this riveting programme of showmanship.
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