Reviews

Artwork: Stacey "BLACKSTAR" Robinson

Breaking Through to the Unseen

Amy Schofield

Breakdance cyphers activate possibilities of knowledge and ways of being.

Photo: Pablo Meninato

Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

Photo: Linda Johnson

you are nothing but your life

desire amaiya

questions of connection, reflection, punishment in a purgatory like space.

Photo: Serge Daniel Kabore

The Dust Settles, and It’s Unsettling

Darcy Grabenstein

Finding hope in the aftermath of a massacre.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Searching For Duende in Philadelphia Ballet’s “Carmen”

Courtney Henry

The nuanced percussion raised the stakes from previous versions of Carmen, yet execution fell short.

Photo: Gala Derroisne

From Birth to Death and Everything in Between

Darcy Grabenstein

Their stories are moving. Literally.

Photo: Donna Faye Burchfield

Talking About Blackness, Ballet, and a Hard Won Empowerment

Shayla-Vie Jenkins

Blackness complicates; it can never be separated from the person or their work.

Photo: Colleen Sirisky

‘Time of Truth’–A Coming of Age Dance

Rhonda Moore

The entire cast jockeys between individual and collective truths.

Photo: Steve Belkowitz

Dig through the Past, Slip into the Future

Amy Schofield

PROTOTYPE helps us remember the pleasure in slowness, the vulnerability in trust, and the fearlessness in experimentation.

Photo Courtesy of Urban Movement Arts

“You’re Probably Wondering What the F is Going On Here”

Caitlin Green

If soundwaves were visible, it would have looked like a tornado in there.