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  • Reviews

The Dust Settles, and It’s Unsettling

Darcy Grabenstein

Finding hope in the aftermath of a massacre.

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Searching For Duende in Philadelphia Ballet’s “Carmen”

Courtney Henry

The nuanced percussion raised the stakes from previous versions of Carmen, yet execution fell short.

Photo: Gala Derroisne
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From Birth to Death and Everything in Between

Darcy Grabenstein

Their stories are moving. Literally.

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Talking About Blackness, Ballet, and a Hard Won Empowerment

Shayla-Vie Jenkins

Blackness complicates; it can never be separated from the person or their work.

Photo: Colleen Sirisky
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‘Time of Truth’–A Coming of Age Dance

Rhonda Moore

The entire cast jockeys between individual and collective truths.

Photo: Steve Belkowitz
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Dig through the Past, Slip into the Future

Amy Schofield

PROTOTYPE helps us remember the pleasure in slowness, the vulnerability in trust, and the fearlessness in experimentation.

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“You’re Probably Wondering What the F is Going On Here”

Caitlin Green

If soundwaves were visible, it would have looked like a tornado in there.

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Building an Altar to Remembrance

Ellen Miller

In "flooding is what they call it," a loud call compels us to reflect.

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“Dream Sweet, Rough Man”… and it seems like they did.

Caitlin Green

Their dance alters between roughhousing and romance.

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3 Pony Show’s Visceral Storytelling Summons Kinship and Survival in the 1900s

Caitlin Green

While pleasant feelings surface, I am reminded of the façade of joy as a necessity to survival