Articles

One Radio Host and His Backup Dancers

Glass has found partners in Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass whose work parallels his.
April 25, 2013
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Talking Parsons: Devices and Digressions

Lisa Bardarson and Kirsten Kaschock chat about Parsons, cravings, and crowd pleasers.
March 9, 2013
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Delicious: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at the Annenberg

Lubovitch exposes his strategy and follows its logic, responding closely to the music he chooses.
October 17, 2012
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A Bicycle Built for Everyone

Green Chair Dance Group's constant interaction with the audience served to include us in what otherwise could have been a very insular topic: the dancers’ relationships with one another.
February 21, 2012
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Inside Oyster

Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.
February 18, 2012
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Spectacle at the Center of RubberbanDance's Latest

In his Poetics, Aristotle derided spectacle as the least important artistic aspect of a performance. RubberbanDance Group’s Gravity of Center shows that sometimes, spectacle’s all you’ve got.
February 2, 2012
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Lots of Glitter, Few Stars

In this season of Nutcrackers, feuding Republicans, and holiday kitsch, the Annenberg’s Dance Celebration Series brought us “Champions of the Dance.”
December 21, 2011
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Compagnie Marie Chouinard Swoops on the Annenberg

Chouinard’s work “reflects her deepest concerns as an artist...each new work must invent and explore a whole new universe.”
December 14, 2011
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