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Pinto and Pollak bring Oyster to the Paramount

Carnival of Waifs
All the characters in Oyster, the Israeli show presented by Celebrity Series last weekend at the Paramount, are physically challenged in some way.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 07, 2012

Monica Bill Barnes at the ICA

Somewhere over the top
When the audience entered the theater at the ICA on Friday night, we saw a wooden table and chairs, set up for a simple meal — possibly breakfast.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 24, 2012

Wim Wenders films Pina Bausch

Their saintly boss
Wim Wenders's Pina memorializes the late choreographer Pina Bausch with reverential tributes from her past and present dancers and excerpts from four of her works.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 18, 2012

A strong season of dance and song

Ten to grow on
From the comic to the sublime, with a dash of flamenco, the winter season has it all.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 29, 2011

A whirlwind year of dance

From Fela! to Merce
Here's a look at highlights from my year of dance viewing.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 20, 2011

Photos: The Slutcracker at The Somerville Theatre

December 11, 2011
It's that time again: The all-naughty and no-nice holiday favorite, The Slutcracker, at The Somerville Theatre on December 11, 2011.

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | December 16, 2011

Merce Cunningham's long goodbye

Last looks
Expiring dance companies either implode from suppressed internal troubles, or they just peter out quietly.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 14, 2011

Photos: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company's last hurrah
Last week, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company gave a farewell performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

By: STEPHANIE BERGER & JULIETA CERVANTES | December 14, 2011

'New' dance — then and now — gets a full airing on Boston's stages, and on film

Cool moves
November brought a dense cluster of dance events to galvanize our thinking about how dancers have re-imagined their craft and challenged their audiences over the past few decades.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 06, 2011

Boston Ballet brings back John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet

Return of the star-cross'd
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has probably inspired as many ballet translations as The Rite of Spring .

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 08, 2011

Sex wars
You don't want to take the title of Gallim Dance's Blush too seriously — at least not if you're expecting embarrassment, shame, modesty, confusion, those textbook signifiers of someone who'd like to creep away and hide.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 25, 2011

A Beatle gets a ballet

Oceanic love
The synopsis for the new Peter Martins/Paul McCartney ballet Ocean's Kingdom reads like a pastiche of 19th and early-20th-century plots.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | September 27, 2011

Bodies Moving: Boston’s 10 best fall dance events

A season of terpsichorean delights
Kayaking the Arctic, celebrating life across atolls, and finding the ways the artist's hand and dancer's body intersect, this season of dance offers audiences a varied journey.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 14, 2011

A postmodern dance lineage sings

Forest forays
Brown's newest work, Les Yeux et l'âme , is a suite of dances from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Pygmalion , which Brown directed in Europe last year.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 23, 2011

Jonah Bokaer takes chances

Charting chaos
Bokaer didn't provide any grandiose program notes or play up the profound implications in his dances, but by the end of the performance we'd seen small transformations and beautiful visions, and even confronted big questions about control and randomness, civilization and nature.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 09, 2011

Developing dances at the ICA

Summer summary
Summer Stages Dance wrapped its 14th season Saturday afternoon at the Institute of Contemporary Art with a presentation by four choreographers who've been working with the students at Concord Academy through July.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 02, 2011

Photos: Summer Reunion: Alumni of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at the ICA

Institute of Contemporary Art | July 15, 2011
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company presents an alumni reunion show at the ICA theater on July 15, 2011.

By: JOEL VEAK | July 22, 2011

Bill T. Jones alumni shine at the ICA

Summer Reunion
During the Q&A that followed last weekend's "Summer Reunion" of former dancers from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Jones — unable to attend — was represented on stage by a large bouquet of white roses. (Zane, who died in 1988, was probably watching through a heavenly viewfinder.)

By: DEBRA CASH | July 21, 2011

Kidd Pivot's Dark Matters at Jacob's Pillow

Puppets and masters
The two-act drama, performed last week at Jacob's Pillow, blends the conventions of Japanese puppetry and Kabuki, movie animation, shadowplay, and contemporary dance into a spectacle of porous identities.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 12, 2011

Jane Comfort and Sharon Eyal at Jacob's Pillow

Feminist one-two punch
The dramaturgy behind Jane Comfort's gimlet-eyed pageant in Beauty, on delicious display at Jacob's Pillow Doris Duke Theatre this past week, is spot-on.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 06, 2011

The Floordlords celebrate 30 years

Hip-hop heaven
B-boys — b-girls had scant presence on this program — have gone commercial, but today's freestyle breaking technique builds on moves cut three decades ago (although a grainy Floordlords video indicates that the current generation has discarded stirrup pants for profanity-laced t-shirts).

By: DEBRA CASH | June 28, 2011

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