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Finding a voice

Battleworks at the ICA
Closer inspection, however, shows a choreographer making a series of perplexing musical choices that don’t always serve him well.

By: DEBRA CASH | February 29, 2008

Stepping stones

Tudor and Limón at Boston Conservatory
The dance is large and sweeping, the music (by an unnamed recorded chorus and organist) majestic.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 25, 2008

At long last love?

Boston Ballet hitches up with John Cranko’s Romeo & Juliet
Boston Ballet has been playing the Romeo and Juliet dating game for almost 25 years now.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 20, 2008

Hard stories

Bill T. Jones at the ICA, Noche Flamenca at the Majestic
Bill T. Jones has always loved double meanings.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 19, 2008

Mastering the motion

‘Masters of Motion’ in Providence
“Masters of Motion” is the kind of catch-all title for a dance bill that encompasses everything and puts you in mind of nothing.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 12, 2008

Trailing Ailey

The Groove at the Wang
Neither the Ailey company nor The Groove ’s choreographer, Camille A. Brown, acknowledged these roots.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 12, 2008

Queen bee

Eva Yerbabuena at the Majestic
Is there such a thing as conceptual flamenco dancing?

By: DEBRA CASH | February 12, 2008

My Fair Lady at the Opera House
This new production is a little callow and a little obvious, and, especially in Matthew Bourne’s choreography, it seems to want a bigger stage than the Opera House affords.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 11, 2008

Bytes

'Ten's the Limit' at the ICA
The notion of confining entries to 10 minutes seems arbitrary — why not four choreographers doing 20-minute dances?

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 22, 2008

Dancing in the year of the Rat

Flamenco, funk, and Boston Ballet hit the boards
If you’re hot for Victoria’s Secret ads and addicted to Dancing with the Stars, Tango Fire will be right up your alley.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 26, 2007

Ebb and flow

Dance: 2007 in review
The good news is that we still have our own major company, Boston Ballet, and it made its first international tour — to Spain — in more than a decade.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 17, 2007

Urban cheek

BalletRox's Nutcracker
There are several meanings to the word popular, and BalletRox’s The Urban Nutcracker satisfies the truest of them.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 11, 2007

More than child’s play

Boston Ballet’s grown-up Nutcracker
After a slow start, The Nutcracker went on to become the most-watched ballet of the 20th century.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 09, 2007

Not through yet

Paul Taylor at the Shubert, plus Morgan Thorson’s Faker
Paul Taylor brags that he’s violated just about every taboo in American culture over his 50-plus years of creative work and he’s not through yet.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 05, 2007

Waters of Narcissus?

Maureen Fleming at the ICA
Fleming created a one-woman Art Deco extravaganza — with herself looking like nothing so much as a Rolls Royce hood ornament.

By: DEBRA CASH | November 06, 2007

Social settings

Seán Curran at the Tsai Center
Seán Curran’s dance looks like a formal exposition of movement, but after a while you begin to imagine webs of social interactions, relationships, and hidden histories.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 30, 2007

Chris and friends

Wheeldon’s Morphoses at City Center
The hype was huge, but Wheeldon seems to have a modest agenda.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 29, 2007

Dark victory

Boston Ballet in Serenade and La Sylphide
It’s a good pairing: together, Serenade and La Sylphide write an essay on doomed love

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 31, 2007

Twinkle, twinkle

Boston Ballet’s ‘Night of Stars’
For some 15 years now, Boston Ballet has danced like a major international ballet company, and Mikko Nissinen wants to be sure everybody’s aware of that.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 31, 2008

Teasers and tidbits

Bunraku at the Majestic; Marcus Schulkind at Green Street
The puppeteer’s face and body reflect what the puppet is going through, as if the puppet were giving life to him instead of the other way around.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 09, 2007

Busy busy

Something for everyone
“If you pulled the cord and the chute didn’t open, how would you dance on the way down?”

By: DEBRA CASH | September 12, 2007

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