Reviews

Photo: Bill Hebert

Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

Carolyn Merritt

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.

Photo: Bill Hebert

A Straightforward Evening of Hip-Hop: With surprising realizations, nonetheless

Annie Wilson

Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.

Photo: Lois Greenfield

Contemplative and Connected: Leah Stein’s Singular Aesthetic

Jim Rutter

Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Heaven, Earth, and Everything Between

Amelia Longo

Handel’s Messiah is big and divine. In trying to match its lofty heights, Weiss instead showed his own humanity.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Balloons and Flowers for Spiel Uhr

Peter Price

Group Motion Company’s 'Spiel Uhr' series has been running continuously since the 1980’s

Photo: Maria Anguera de Sojo

Flotation Devices and Other Sex Toys

Kirsten Kaschock

Disassociation provides pleasure--the vague elation of untethering nudity from sexuality... But new freedoms bring their own anxieties.

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.