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Tops in 2018 New York Dance: Drama, Distinction, and ‘What a Way to Go’
Top 15 in 2018 New York Dance Jerry Hochman It’s that time of year. Again. Last year, against my better judgment, I decided to join many other reviewers and offered my list of 2017’s top dance...
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BalletBoyz at the Joyce: Men of War
BalletBoyz The Joyce Theater New York, New York February 1, 2019 Young Men (Acts I and II) Jerry Hochman BalletBoyz returned to the Joyce Theater this week with a multi-media presentation titled Young...
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Whim W’Him: A Trail of Souls
Whim W’Him Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center Seattle, WA January 25, 2019 “3X3” Program: The Most Elusive Hold, This mountain, Trail of Soles Dean Speer Two incidents in my ancestral past were...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Lazarus and Revelations
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House Washington, DC February 5, 2019 Carmel Morgan If it’s the beginning of February in Washington, DC, then you can count on Alvin Ailey...
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Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories
Dance Place Washington, DC February 17, 2019 Carmel Morgan Urban Bush Women (UBW) has been around since 1984, and this innovative company dedicated to “weav[ing] contemporary dance, music, and text...
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Verb Ballets: Ian Horvath’s Dance Legacy
Verb Ballets The Breen Center for the Performing Arts Cleveland, Ohio February 9, 2019 Dance Legacy: Celebrating the Life of Ian Horvath Steve Sucato It’s been nearly three decades since former...
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Mark Morris Dance Group: Little Britten; Numerator; The Trout
George Mason University Center for the Arts Fairfax, VA March 1, 2019 Carmel Morgan This year’s performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) at George Mason University (GMU) coincided not with...
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Complexions: From Then To Now
Complexions Contemporary Ballet The Joyce Theater New York, New York February 22, 2019: Program A – Bach 25; Star Dust February 26, 2019: Program B – From Then To Now; Woke (world premiere) Jerry...
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SF/Bay Area Round-Up Winter Highlights
Heather Desaulniers Berkeley Rep – Paradise Square Roda Theatre, Berkeley Diablo Ballet – Balanchine & Beyond Del Valle Theatre, Walnut Creek ka·nei·see | collective & Cat Call Choir –...
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Hubbard Street: Decadence / New York
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 6, 2019: Program A (All Naharin) – Decadance / Chicago March 12, 2019: Program B (All Pite) – A Picture of You Falling, The Other...
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New York Theatre Ballet: It all fits
New York Theatre Ballet Danspace Project St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery New York, New York March 14, 2019 REP Program: Scramble, The Elements of Style, The Seasons Jerry Hochman The venerable New York...
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Ballet Hispánico: Home is Where the Hat is
Ballet Hispánico The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 26, 2019 El Viaje, Sombrerisimo, Homebound/Alaala Jerry Hochman Ever since Twyla Tharp choreographed Push Comes to Shove for American Ballet...
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SF/Bay Area Round-up March 2019
Heather Desaulniers San Francisco Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Rogelio López & Dancers – Dicotomia Del Silencio Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley Deborah...
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Ariel Rivka Dance & Guests: Childs Play, Adult Turmoil
Ariel Rivka Dance (with Guests slowdanger and Alison Cook Beatty Dance) Baruch Performing Arts Center New York, New York March 28, 2019 Ariel Rivka Dance: Rhapsody in K, She, Mossy, Ori slowdanger:...
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Analogy Trilogy
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater Washington, DC March 28-30, 2019 Carmel Morgan For three evenings in a row I sat and watched the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company...
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Dorrance Dance: A Grand Slam
[pending receipt of additional performance photographs] Dorrance Dance New York City Center New York, New York March 29, 2010 Program B: Jungle Blues, Three to One, Basses Loaded, Lessons in Tradition,...
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Osipova and Hallberg: Pure Dance at City Center
[pending receipt of performance photographs] Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance, with David Hallberg New York City Center New York, New York April 3, 2019 The Leaves are Fading (pas de deux), Flutter, In...
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Saburo Teshigawara: The Idiot
The Print Room at The Coronet London 21st March 2019 Stuart Sweeney Saburo Teshigawara’s distinctive work has garnered for him a worldwide reputation as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. It was...
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Round My World Hand Dance Eight Women Runes Caught Whirlaway George Mason University Center for the Arts Fairfax, VA April 20, 2019 Carmel Morgan The audience assembled to see Parsons Dance at George...
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SF/Bay Area Round-up – April 2019
Heather Desaulniers San Francisco Ballet – Program 6 – Space Between War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Cal Performances presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Program A Zellerbach Hall,...
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