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Photo: Lindsay Browning

Throughline Collective Offers Collapse/Intersect

Jonathan Stein

Lisa Bardarson and Jonathan Stein collectively review the Throughline Collective, joint project of Colleen Hooper & Julie B. Johnson.

Photo: Zachary Handler

Rug Burns and A String Quartet

Kalila Kingsford Smith

New Street Dance Group’s ChORDED Motion bound its dancers in tangled ribbons, pearls, and strings of thought-- sometimes getting caught up by the limitations of the space.

Photo: Christian Conrad Schröder

Leaving Stable Grounds

Megan Bridge

[I]n the shadow of better-funded festivals and venues, is.m drew a group of practitioners that demonstrated an unwavering commitment to their craft.

Photo: Courtesy of Leah Stein Dance Co

Listening for Histories

Carolyn Merritt

Stein’s crew raise and reground curving mahogany pews. I see the work of establishing and resettling a congregation, cultural shifts in urban America.

Photo: Lars Jan

Choreographing Life

Patricia Graham

Elegantly, we get tricked, again and again, and we love it in Geoff Sobelle's 'The Object Lesson'.

Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou

Pay Up – Take 1, 2 ,3

Anna Drozdowski

The real drama of "Pay Up" doesn't live inside the many rooms, it resides inside the audience choosing to spend their time and money while shuffling through the experience.

Photo: by Reinhard Werner

Life and Times: I love it, I hate it

Annie Wilson

The directors interviewed their sound designer, asking her to tell her life story. Then they theatricalized it.

Photo: Knut Bry

Horror and Humor in a Fictional Cold-War Society

Nicole Bindler

Issues of cultural stereotyping and the role of choreography within theater simmer to the surface.

Photo: Gabrielle Revlock

Rocky Awards Awash with Babies

Lisa Kraus

Kids anchored the show, emceed by "pregnant" hosts Christina Gesualdi and Annie Wilson. Fish and swimming were themes too.

Photo: Kathryn Raines

It’s a Moose!

Megan Bridge

The dances in this work are usually comical, but often athletic, embodied, earnest, and endearing, and sometimes all at once...