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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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Something From Nothing: Eleanor Bauer at Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater

A carefully calibrated explosion of grandiosity, Bauer’s solo is a study of opposing forces in collaboration.
January 31, 2012
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dance fueled. writing driven.

The nEW Festival presented four new works by its 2012 resident choreographers. Ellen Gerdes and Kilian Kröll attended, between them, four performances. They each wrote about the pieces, then mashed their words together.
January 25, 2012
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Listening: Improvised Performances at Falls Bridge

The first of two evenings of improvised dancing from Falls Bridge.
January 18, 2012
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