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Public Spaces, Personal Places

idiosynCrazy productions worked the Live Arts Studio in intricate and intimate ways that ignored the audience’s need for personal space.
September 14, 2012
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Really, It Is Kind of Huge

I can see these dancers working through ideas of physical intelligence. They are at home in their bodies, at home in making, and I can just tell that they are having a rip-roaring good time.
September 11, 2012
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Double Vision: Dancefusion at the Philly Fringe

The clarity of the movement’s attack and its clear lines and arcs in gestures, body shapes, and pathways reminded me of the power of classic modern dance in its search for expression of the universal...
September 9, 2012
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Body Politics Meet Mirth, Mayhem, and Mashups in Bang

Clowning at its finest, and terrifically funny... Bang’s “meaning” was ultimately drowned out by mirth, mayhem, and mashups.
September 9, 2012
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Get to Go Together

Order and disorder, monochrome and the spectrum, word and action, isolation and investment...
September 8, 2012
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RUB(bing me the wrong way)

One song in the evening’s soundtrack plugged “the more you drink, the better we look,” but honestly, these girls didn’t need any help here...
September 8, 2012
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Choreographic Thinking: Practical Philosophy for Dance

In her new book, Susan Rethorst asks dance-makers to enter the philosophical realm.
September 3, 2012
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Everyone’s Dancing in "Le Grand Continental"

The post-moderns not only asked “what is dance?” but also “who can or should the dancer be?”. The latter question will soon receive the resounding answer--“Everyone!"
September 1, 2012
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