Articles
Merce: Awesome!
A young choreographer considers an artist who continues to inspire wonder, fear, and reverence.
February 2, 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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Something From Nothing: Eleanor Bauer at Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater
A carefully calibrated explosion of grandiosity, Bauer’s solo is a study of opposing forces in collaboration.
January 31, 2012
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Dancing Around Dramaturgy (an exploration)
...I believe that that’s what dance-makers strive to do: to tell us something about our culture, about ourselves.
January 30, 2012
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The Empathetic Art of Teaching: Two Weeks of Community Class with Peggy Baker
Like a rescue plane hovering over my somewhat helter-skelter dancing life, Peggy Baker is a relief effort.
January 26, 2012
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dance fueled. writing driven.
The nEW Festival presented four new works by its 2012 resident choreographers. Ellen Gerdes and Kilian Kröll attended, between them, four performances. They each wrote about the pieces, then mashed their words together.
January 25, 2012
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