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The Peek-A-Boo Revue at the Trocadero
Feminine intervention
The Peek-A-Boo Revue represents women who are not mainstream depictions of female sexuality and beauty, therefore providing a counter-narrative to conversations concerning sexual politics.
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BalletX: The process
BalletX is preparing a world-premiere work by Norbert De La Cruz III for its winter show.
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How kids see ‘The Nutcracker' (5th helping)
What’s a duck’s favorite ballet?
Five Decembers have passed since I embarked on a bizarre once-a-year quest to observe how children — specifically, my own grandkids, at The Nutcracker — develop an appreciation for great art. And by golly, I do believe a pattern is emerging.
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BalletX's Fall Series
The effort of creating beauty
The dances by Ballet X are not products so much as they are evidence of direct engagement with the process of creative discovery. The pieces are rough around the edges, daring, spirited, and so much fun.
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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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