Reviews

Beyond Moving

“Beyond Moving” Raises Questions about Becoming a Dancer

Kristen Shahverdian

What does it mean to dance for a home?

Drawing: Elizabeth Castagna

Jumping in with Both Feet

When you think about how the use of language itself is scripted from our corporeal presence, reading through this collection

Photo: Tom Berthiaume

The Grand Union—They Were Their Own Material

Leslie Bush

Wendy Perron explores the Grand Union’s six years of anarchism from the inside.

Photo: Courtesy Aviva

Aviva Makes the Right Moves, But Not Without Missteps

Kristi Yeung

The film Aviva features dancers in its experimental representations of gender.

Photo: Elliot deBruyn

BalletX: Filming On Site

Christina Catanese

When is a place another dancer? When is it a hazy backdrop? When is it trying to tell you something?

Photo: Juniper Productions

A Songfest for the Silly

Whitney Weinstein

Juniper Productions' MUSICALS WITH FRIENDS mixes up musical theatre, laughing, and polls

Photo: Emma Cohen

Ntozake Shange Expresses the Poetry of Black Dance

Emma Cohen

In the new book Dance We Do, the line between language and movement is erased

Photo: Aidan Un

A Journey through Flamenco with Elba Hevia y Vaca

Kristen Shahverdian

Flamenco is how Hevia y Vaca has “made sense of the world.”

Photo: Whitney Browne

Orthodoxy, Unzipped

Darcy Grabenstein

Ariel Rivka Dance’s virtual premiere captures what it means to truly break free.

Photo: Lisette Marie Flanary

Appreciate or Appropriate

Leila Mire

A film captures the complex globalization of hula dance in Tokyo.