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Winged feet

Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 11, 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

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

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

The curatorial eye

Daniel McCusker’s ‘tHisTHat’
Never merely illustrative, their unity seemed like the very source of Heaven.

By: DEBRA CASH | April 28, 2008

Signals from the solar system

Daniel McCusker at Tufts, Kelley Donovan at the Dance Complex
Pluto may have been downgraded to a dwarf planet, but Jupiter is still respected for its size, its moons, and the regularity of its orbit.

By: DEBRA CASH | March 18, 2008

Finding a voice

Battleworks at the ICA
Closer inspection, however, shows a choreographer making a series of perplexing musical choices that don’t always serve him well.

By: DEBRA CASH | February 29, 2008

Queen bee

Eva Yerbabuena at the Majestic
Is there such a thing as conceptual flamenco dancing?

By: DEBRA CASH | February 12, 2008

Dancing in the year of the Rat

Flamenco, funk, and Boston Ballet hit the boards
If you’re hot for Victoria’s Secret ads and addicted to Dancing with the Stars, Tango Fire will be right up your alley.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 26, 2007

Waters of Narcissus?

Maureen Fleming at the ICA
Fleming created a one-woman Art Deco extravaganza — with herself looking like nothing so much as a Rolls Royce hood ornament.

By: DEBRA CASH | November 06, 2007

Busy busy

Something for everyone
“If you pulled the cord and the chute didn’t open, how would you dance on the way down?”

By: DEBRA CASH | September 12, 2007

Stand-up choreography

David Parker + the Bang Group
David Parker was born too late for vaudeville.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 24, 2007

Life is but a dream

Aurélia Thierrée and Coleman Lemieux at Jacob’s Pillow
Children from theatrical families are often said to have been born in a trunk.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 03, 2007

City limits

Boston Cyberarts’ ‘The Body’s Limit’ at Green Street, ‘Ten’s the Limit’ at the ICA
There’s nothing like the first weekend of beautiful weather to raise skepticism about digitally mediated experience.

By: DEBRA CASH | April 24, 2007

Terpsichore’s delight

The joys of spring dance
Traveling troupes and local dancemakers spring up around the Boston area this season.

By: DEBRA CASH | March 13, 2007

Dancing across the city

Between the opening of the new ICA and Bank of America's de-funding of Celebrity Series, will Boston be a city on the move or on the make in 2007?
The ICA’s Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, with its sprung wood dance floor and wrap-around windows framing the harbor, is positioned to become Boston dance’s most significant venue.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 27, 2006

Ordered steps

Ronald K. Brown at the Majestic
“I will not move without Your consent,” swears the text at the heart of Ronald K. Brown’s 2005 work Order My Steps.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 05, 2006

Happy feet

From butoh to Swan Lake and back
The architectural team of Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater at the new Institute for Contemporary Art as a 325-seat jewel box, its transparent walls allowing the Boston harbor and skyline to serve as a scenic backdrop or turn opaque as the performance requires.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 13, 2006

Not so simple gifts

Tero Saarinen at Jacob’s Pillow
The Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts” has been appropriated for everything from exultant wedding recessionals to a ludicrous car commercial, but I don’t think anyone has ever heard it in quite the same way as young Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 25, 2006

New Orleans story

The Royal Ballet’s Manon
When the Royal Ballet touches down at the Wang Theatre this month, quash any visions you might have of tea-and-crumpets decorum.

By: DEBRA CASH | June 13, 2006

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