Reviews

Photo: Knut Bry

Horror and Humor in a Fictional Cold-War Society

Nicole Bindler

Issues of cultural stereotyping and the role of choreography within theater simmer to the surface.

Photo: Kathryn Raines

It’s a Moose!

Megan Bridge

The dances in this work are usually comical, but often athletic, embodied, earnest, and endearing, and sometimes all at once...

Photo: Corey Melton

Strangers in a Void

Patricia Graham

In Cavidad, Enza DePalma creates a fully-realized vision of an alternative reality, and the dancers' execution of the movement is the key to the world.

Photo: Lora Allen

The Iron Factory Yields to Tori Lawrence + Co. and allendance

Becca Weber

The evening felt full and cohesive--a series of works with an unarticulated longing for more.

Photo: Ted Lieverman

Juicy, Junky Nightmares

Lynn Matluck Brooks

From a nightmare of heartless civilization and oozy evolution into the sunshine of play.

Photo: Robert Abrams

Is North American Dance In Crisis?

Annie Wilson

Yes, yes it is, we say. As dance artists, critics, scholars, professors and enthusiasts, we wring our hands at the dying art form.

Photo: Randl Bye

Dance: Fusion/360°, Then/Now

Lynn Matluck Brooks

How can works from 75 years ago still read so strikingly? Each company on this shared program also showed new work.

Tonight I watch a mantis-limbed woman…

Patricia Graham

Tangle Movement Arts, a confident troupe of women aerialist, dance and theater artists, don’t take long to get vertical.

Photo: Rodrigo Valenzuela and Molly Sides

Viewing Made to Order

Lynn Matluck Brooks

To explore the flavors offered up by the world of screen-dance, try "Dances Made to Order," an assortment of short films by artists from all over the map.

Photo: Katie Jasmin

What is Professional Dance? DANCE/USA, philly dance

Ellen Gerdes

A response to the DANCE/USA conference: part report/part thank you note to Philadelphia.