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Lukewarm

Trey McIntyre at the Pillow
Are we in the midst of a dance boom?

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 27, 2008

Funny bones

Stockholm 59° North at the Pillow
It was the darkly comic offerings of Mats Ek in the middle, and the personable interpretations that gave the evening its distinction.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 19, 2008

Soft power

Sara Rudner at Concord Academy and the ICA
It's neither a set piece of choreography nor an improvised free-for-all.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 04, 2008

Post-traumatic earth

Eiko + Koma and Tere O’Connor at Concord
With the most unassertive, seemingly egoless moves, Eiko & Koma can evoke the sensations and moods of a universe.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 23, 2008

Hofesh Schechter, Natural Dance Theatre, Ko + Edge at the Pillow
“Dance is a tool to look at other things,” choreographer Hofesh Shechter told an interviewer, but during the company’s US debut at Jacob’s Pillow last weekend you’d be forgiven for just looking at the fantastically virile dancing.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 15, 2008

Modern romantics

Mark Morris’s Romeo & Juliet ; Lar Lubovitch at the Pillow
Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare is less of a statement than a supposition: what if we did it a different way?

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 08, 2008

Young and old

Mark Morris at Tanglewood
The presence of company veterans infuses Mark Morris Dance Group with a maturity that both grounded and lifted this presentation to a higher plane.

By: JANINE PARKER | July 02, 2008

Rite of darkness

Heddy Maalem’s Sacre
Le Sacre du Printemps , with 14 dancers hailing from Senegal, Togo, Benin, Mali, Nigeria, and Mozambique, takes on black-on-black violence .

By: DEBRA CASH | July 03, 2008

Prodigies old and new

Tharp’s Rabbit and Rogue at ABT, Ratmansky and Robbins at NYCB
Tharp’s dances almost invariably have a euphoric effect on their first audiences, even when they miss their mark and don’t hold up over the long run.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | June 10, 2008

Dido's fate

Mark Morris at the Majestic
Henry Purcell might not have approved Mark Morris’s contemporary take on Dido and Aeneas, but he probably would have recognized it for its formality and anti-naturalism.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | June 03, 2008

Altar and ego

Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 30, 2008

Where the chips fell

Marjorie Morgan, Karl Cronin, Lucinda Childs, and Boston Ballet
Dance history reverberated across Boston during the past few weeks, affirming that how we live now owes a lot to how we’ve chosen to remember — and forget.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 28, 2008

Russian revel?

Looking ahead to Ballets Russes 2009
The Russians are coming!

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 23, 2008

What's left behind

Tap Olé at the Regent, Rachid Ouramdane at the ICA, Prometheus at Boston Conservatory
Tap Olé is less a new-fangled bicultural fusion than a return to tap dancing’s foundational swingtime.

By: DEBRA CASH | May 21, 2008

Maestro!

Interview: Mark Morris picks up the baton
Next week, the Celebrity Series of Boston brings back Mark Morris’s dance setting of Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera Dido and Aeneas .

By: LLOYD SCHWARTZ | May 19, 2008

Mastering the masterpieces

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 21, 2008

Balancing act

Interview: Mikko Nissinen and Boston Ballet
It’s been quite a year for Boston Ballet.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 14, 2008

Combat and rain

Nai-Ni Chen at John Hancock Hall
Taiwanese choreographer Nai-Ni Chen danced with Cloud Gate Dance Theater before moving to New York in 1982, and her work, like theirs, is a suave amalgam of traditional Chinese elements and modern dance.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 13, 2008

Drama manqué

Leine & Roebana at the ICA, Contrapose at Green Street
Sporen , by the Dutch company Leine & Roebana, had two false beginnings before settling down to an hour of movement exploration.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 12, 2008

Big pond, little pond

Swan Lake in Boston and Providence
Swan Lake is ballet’s prima ballerina because, 131 years after its Moscow premiere, it’s still poised on pointe.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 07, 2008

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