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Jonathan Stein

Dance on Paper at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

This Score for Ballet could indeed be a dance, enacted, but with no bodies required.
June 7, 2015
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Hamlet--To Dance or Not To Dance, A Question

The simple but powerful choreography brings to mind ballet’s court dance origins and connotations of rarified class and privilege.
April 22, 2015
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Butoh and Hip-Hop—Together in the Cypher

Rennie Harris and Michael Sakamoto create a cypher of cross-cultural connectedness.
December 22, 2014
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Le Roy Lets 16 Retrospectives Bloom at PS1

During three hours as a visitor to Retrospective I was swept into the individual retrospectives of several of the dancers.
November 4, 2014
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Xavier Le Roy’s Avant Retrospective

When I walked into choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective at MoMA PS1 there seemed to be nothing happening.
November 4, 2014
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Narwhals Ply the Rowhouse Fringe

Donning a projecting narwhal tusk, long greyish wigs, and silvery shifts and culottes, Lee and Elkins played off the eccentricity of this “unicorn of the sea.”
September 18, 2014
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“color FULL” Premieres at Mascher

Loren Groenendaal, a playful interrogator of ideas and sensations, suggests that a colorful palette should be at the ready in the studio and in performance.
May 31, 2014
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Cooking and Dancing in the Kitchen

Marion Ramirez’s "Musa Paradisiaca," named after the banana tree of her native Puerto Rico, stirs together quotidian life, memory, cultural history and passionate art making.
April 3, 2014
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