Fringe 2015: 'Still Standing You'

The body as canvas

In Still Standing You, Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido delivered a complex interpretation of friendship and male bonding that was comedic, sensitive, and aggressive.

Gregory King

Sep 11, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read

Fringe 2015: Jeanine McCain's 'Under Her Skin'

Everyone has a secret

At Under Her Skin, I see the thought and I see ambition. And, I must reluctantly admit, I see a show that bit off a little more than it could chew.

Lauren Findlay

Sep 08, 2015 · Articles · 4 minute read

BalletX Summer Series 2015

Entering the talented tenth (year)

The risk of turning its summer performance over to a single choreographer — frequent collaborator Adam Hougland — definitely paid off for BalletX.

Lisa Traiger

Jul 19, 2015 · Articles · 3 minute read

Silvana Cardell's 'Supper, People on the Move'

Empathy for émigrés and exiles

Supper, People on the Move is a thoughtful, important work for not only its serious exploration of the immigrant experience, but also as a powerful example of dance as a mode for social history and political advocacy. With effortless shifts between moods and movement styles, Supper reflects the desperation, precariousness, and turmoil of immigrant life.

Samantha Maldonado

Jul 07, 2015 · Articles · 4 minute read

'Mash Up Body' at FringeArts

Order Interrupted

A wildly provocative examination of the female body and a journey toward exploring the feminist persona, Mash Up Body is campy, honest, stimulating, and bizarre.

Gregory King

Jun 12, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read

Lightning Rod Special's 'Let the Dog See the Rabbit'

Choreographed gestures at the Rotunda

Part museum exhibition and part performance art, Let the Dog See the Rabbit served up a plate of sumptuous delicacies with a side of comedy.

Gregory King

May 23, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read

Pilobolus at the Annenberg Center

Defying boundaries

Dancing by the long-running Pilobolus troupe is about fighting the limitations of not only the body, but also the environment and the imagination.

Ilene Raymond Rush

May 12, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read

The Pennsylvania Ballet's Tribute to Jerome Robbins

A storyteller's legacy

The Tribute to Jerome Robbins was a triumph as the dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet soared in their interpretation of Robbins’s works.

Gregory King

May 09, 2015 · Articles · 3 minute read

RUBBERBANDance at the Annenberg

Hip-hop grows up

RUBBERBANDance Group's artistic director and choreographer Victor Quijada takes hip-hop dance language, with all the athletic expressiveness of urban youth culture, and injects it into a formal modern dance structure.

Gary L. Day

Apr 19, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read

Copeland and Mack in the Washington Ballet's 'Swan Lake'

Black and white swans

Misty Copeland and Brooklyn Mack starred in Washington Ballet’s production of Swan Lake. This is the first time an American production of the ballet has cast black dancers as the leading couple.

Chrysta Brown

Apr 14, 2015 · Articles · 2 minute read