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Jonathan Stein

The Spirits in David Zambrano’s Soul Project

Zambrano’s aim was to present the dancer as “being continuously alive.”
September 19, 2015
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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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