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Pink Hair Affair's "Take It Off!'
This was burlesque— or was it?
Pink Hair Affair's Take It Off! purports to blend burlesque and modern dance, although its pieces rarely achieve a mix of either.
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New Zealand's Black Grace at the Kimmel
Samoan energy heads west
In a memorable performance, the thrilling and brilliantly executed New Zealand company Black Grace integrated many aspects of modern dance with Samoan and South Pacific indigenous dance forms. The result was no cut-and-paste assemblage, but a new art form.
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (4th review)
The meaning in her movements
Elizabeth Streb is a charismatic, kinetic physicist who plumbs the stripped-down elements of dance movement: space, time and especially energy. Her movement “actions” are presented without the baggage of what many expect from dance, such as narrative, metaphoric representations of the body, eye-appealing forms and grace.
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (3rd review)
Movement without meaning
Elizabeth Streb, the eponymous “action architect and choreographer” of STREB, received a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1997. But is Brave a work of genius, or a very ambitious workout?
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (2nd review)
The fear factor
Streb is a dance company that's more about physicality than dance. The choreography aspect simply means the movements have been staged so no one gets hurt. The drama lies in the chance that someone might.
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Elizabeth Streb's "Brave' at Annenberg (1st review)
The Evel Knievel of dance (but is it dance?)
Elizabeth Streb's take on dance and space has added danger, experimentation and a fascination with things mechanical that can propel the body beyond what it can achieve on its own, but not much in the way of dance moves.
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Dancing for his life in Rwanda
Rwanda's dancing orphans— the sequel: One boy who fell through the cracks
Eighteen months ago I had the rare privilege of teaching dance to a unique group of orphans victimized by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. When I returned last month I discovered that the sponsoring group has folded, the safe house is gone, and these kids are back on the streets of Kigali. The solution to their problem is costly by African standards— and piddling by ours.
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Alex Ketley: A choreographer's failure
The itinerant choreographer: What seeds does he plant?
The itinerant choreographer Alex Ketley rolled into town, created something beautiful, and then swept it away into dust. What community does his art create?
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "The Nutcracker'
Once more into the land of Candy Canes and Dew Drops
Anyone can stage a Nutcracker performance. But only the Pennsylvania Ballet and two other companies are authorized to perform the Balanchine version. It's still the ideal antidote for the darkest weeks of the year.
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BalletX Fall Series: Three premieres
A mixed bag from BalletX
Of the three premieres offered by BalletX, Alex Ketley's mesmerizing Silt spoke volumes about the human condition. Meredith Rainey's tedious They Break felt like a walk through a museum; and Matthew Neenan's lighthearted Last of the Year left the audience laughing.
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