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Koresh Dance Company's 'evolution'
An exercise in world-building
Ev.o.lu.tion explores how to communicate frustration, desire, agony, ecstasy, longing, and identity through visceral expression. The performance is emotionally charged, so moody in its aesthetics that it begs to be absorbed and, if not interpreted, then felt.
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BalletBoyz at the Annenberg
Dancing beyond homophobia
London’s BalletBoyz is a brilliant example of how all-male modern dance has taken its place in the evolving world of contemporary choreography.
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Press Play by the Pennsylvania Ballet
Ángel Corella takes over the Pennsylvania Ballet
With only two months to inspire new breath into the company, Ángel Corella has revived it admirably.
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Fringe Festival: Leah Stein’s ‘Splice’
Site-specific dance: transformative for all ages
The Leah Stein Dance Company’s recent FringeArts work, Splice, was a satisfying and inspired convergence of a contemporary dance performance within an art institution.
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Fringe Festival: RealLivePeople's 'Would I Lie to You?'
The lies we tell
Combining choreographed and improvised dance, movements, and spoken words, RealLivePeople present us with the lies we tell ourselves and others in Would I Lie to You?
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Fringe Festival: Brian Sanders’ JUNK, ‘Suspended’
The very model of a Fringe show
Suspended is a show that epitomizes everything that a Fringe show should be: audacious, outside the mainstream, but oozing talent.
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Come Together Dance Festival
Come Together really did, finally
The opening night of the Come Together Dance Festival featured strong, innovative works danced with such verve and professionalism that they looked new again.
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The Pennsylvania Ballet: A 50th Finale
Not everything was beautiful at the ballet
Is it just the dancing that makes a ballet a work of art, or do we need the other elements as well? The final performance of the Pennsylvania Ballet's 50th anniversary season may have taken minimalism too far.
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Nichole Canuso's 'Midway Avenue'
The shape of home
One of our city’s most creative dance artists presents her most personal creation: a meditation on how her childhood home affected her life.
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Gala Flamenca and Flamenco Festival
The dance as trance or political statement
Flamenco is both a compelling dance form and a challenge. It forces us to ask whether dance is merely an aesthetic experience, or must we be mindful of the sociopolitical implications of the dancers and the dance in a cultural context? In other words, has art become politics?
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