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Flotation Devices and Other Sex Toys

Disassociation provides pleasure--the vague elation of untethering nudity from sexuality... But new freedoms bring their own anxieties.
February 29, 2012
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LEVYdance’s Romp: Fun = Exhausting and Exhilarating

We can’t take our eyes off of this sweaty crew of risk-takers and are impressed by the dedication of their student counterparts.
February 23, 2012
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Maintaining Boundaries

Coming from the nothing-is-too-weird-to-be-performed contemporary dance world, I went out on a limb by agreeing to write about "Pushing Boundaries: Forsythe and Neenan."
February 23, 2012
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A Bicycle Built for Everyone

Green Chair Dance Group's constant interaction with the audience served to include us in what otherwise could have been a very insular topic: the dancers’ relationships with one another.
February 21, 2012
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Lincoln Luck’s Collaborative Multimedia Frenzy

Lindsay Browning filled her piece with rich and lovely components, but lacked a clear thread to link them.
February 21, 2012
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Inside Oyster

Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.
February 18, 2012
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But I Was Invited

I was peering into the window of a stranger’s bedroom from the outside. The world of Lesya Popil’s Uninvited Guest was mostly private, and exposed.
February 6, 2012
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Spectacle at the Center of RubberbanDance's Latest

In his Poetics, Aristotle derided spectacle as the least important artistic aspect of a performance. RubberbanDance Group’s Gravity of Center shows that sometimes, spectacle’s all you’ve got.
February 2, 2012
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