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Debbie Shapiro

Bridging Choreographers with ZIPLINE

Rosner's "barrish," a shameless, feminist homoerotic anxiety dream performance, also a poetic dance.
June 5, 2013
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A Colonial Give and Take

Think Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistable” girls, put through an Olympic training boot camp, and then through Alice’s looking glass.
March 12, 2013
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Bumping Up Against BalletX

In one night I witnessed the work of six aesthetically different artists and groups, some of whom had almost nothing to do with the others.
November 17, 2012
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Dancing in the Field: #dusaconf 2012

Reflections on four days at Dance/USA in San Francisco - fear, technology, friendship and all.
August 14, 2012
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anonymous bodies & fidget: discUS.

We’d both attended open rehearsals as well as the show, and the extended meditation on process had us thinking about elements and strategies of performance.
June 13, 2012
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Time Travel With a Smile

The Lady Hoofers take to City Hall in a new performance series.
April 30, 2012
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It’s About Time: Fela! at the Academy

We are not in an American theater in 2012, but inside the Shrine, Fela’s nightclub in Lagos, for a final hoorah before his entourage flees Nigeria and all of its strife forever.
April 4, 2012
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March 28, 2012
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