Reviews

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Maintaining Boundaries

Kilian Kröll

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."

LEVYdance’s Romp: Fun = Exhausting and Exhilarating

Christina Gesualdi

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

Photo: Paul Kopicki

Lincoln Luck’s Collaborative Multimedia Frenzy

Amelia Longo

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

Photo: J Makary

A Bicycle Built for Everyone

Amelia Longo

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.

Photo: Eyal Landesman

Inside Oyster

Ellen Gerdes

Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

But I Was Invited

Debbie Shapiro

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.

Spectacle at the Center of RubberbanDance’s Latest

Jim Rutter

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.

Photo: Hiel Reinout

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

R. Eric Thomas

A carefully calibrated explosion of grandiosity, Bauer’s solo is a study of opposing forces in collaboration.

Photo: Bill Hebert

dance fueled. writing driven.

Kilian Kröll

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.

Listening: Improvised Performances at Falls Bridge

Megan Bridge

The first of two evenings of improvised dancing from Falls Bridge.