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white person wears an astronaut helmet with the face shield down, though it doesn’t quite cover their chin. They stand with one foot in front of the other and hold up an arm, softly opening their palm to face forward as if waving or saying “hold up”. Turquoise light makes shapes on their open palm and their neck. They’re dressed in textures of blue, glimmering pants and a blue bomber with cinched ruffled seams along the arms. Two stage blocks rest behind them, one with a pair of plush white boots set atop.
Photo: William Frederking
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Calling All Querthlings

Xander Cobb

An extraterrestrial Gospel to absolve you of queer shame and anxiety – no promises.

Two bodies pressed almost into each other, fingertips grazing another’s hand. In front, a dancer in a modest white shirt and long skirt glances behind her through tousled hair. A second dancer dressed in black sackcloth hovers behind her, as if readying to whisper something in her ear.
Photo: Anna Siegel
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Circling with the Dybbuk

Madeline Shuron

Beloved Yiddish play is translated through dance. Madeline Shuron reviews Nell Adkins & Helen Sher’s Within the Fall.

Aylin Bayaz stares fiercely into the camera as her arm whips behind her head, the large red and gold fringed fabric she holds billowing out in front of her, completely hiding her lower body . To her right, Raul Mannola sits in a black suit strumming a guitar, his eyes closed as he listens to the music.
Photo: Richard Clark, Philippe Dedryver
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Flamenco Whenever, Wherever

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

The skillful duet brings to mind a dimly-lit café in Seville.

Abby Donnenfeld appears to have just landed an arabesque leap. She stands on one bent leg, enwrapped in billows of white tool, her other leg abducted, knee bent and toes pointing backward. Her left arm extends to the side, wrist flexed, she holds the opposite end of the billowing tool between her lengthened fingers. Her right arm, extending behind her head, isn’t visible. She looks definitely towards a spot just left of the camera, hair smoothed back, lips red, face relaxed and focused. The background is entirely white and nearly envelopes her white fabric.
Photo: Rob Li
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59th exhale: A night of questions, answers optional.

Xander Cobb

Textured worlds provoke dynamic questionings.

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Come Back Home

Megan Bridge
A man wearing a white corset leans on a woman wearing a black unitard to his right. He extends his left leg, which a second woman wearing a black unitard holds above her shoulder while sitting on the floor
Photo: Jamie Kraus
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Homecoming: Stephen Petronio Company´s Final Season at the Pillow

Brendan McCall

Stephen Petronio Company's Final Bow

Tristan Price plays the cello seated on stage with a black microphone positioned in front of him. He wears black shoes, khaki pants and a white button-down shirt. He looks directly at dancer and his mother, Megan Bridge, who is dancing in the foreground, arching backward with one arm extending above her. Bridge wears a white top and grey cargo pants with sneakers.
Photo: Tyler Kline
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A Mother-Son Duo Exchange Expertise

Caitlin Green

His musicianship paves the way for her play.

Three performers dressed in single-color primary colored outfits (one blue, one red, one yellow) express surprise with open mouths. The performer in blue, Kevin Flanagan, grips the wrists of Sierra Rhoades Nicholls, dressed in red; he leans back while supporting her weight as she appears to levitate off the ground, her legs extended in front of her body six inches above the floor. Above her, Liam Bradley, dressed in yellow, pulls their legs up in a tuck jump, feet flexed and arms extended above their shoulders.
Photo: Johanna Austin
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Raw Egg and All, It Works

Ellen Miller

Full Out Formula’s circus act lets the audience decide.

Fanned out in a circle on a white surface are 12 booklets in a range of colors. Here and there are sections of text covered or obscured by other booklets. In the center of this circle is the title piece in a wash of brown darker at the bottom and lightening toward the top. The vague image of pine tree tops on its surface. It reads, Dance across the top and History(s) across the bottom with the subtitle Imagination as a Form of Study in the center. Underneath in smaller letters it reads edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson.
Photo: Jack Lazar
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To Us/Because of Us

Emilee Lord

Dance is a Weed

A line of eleven people are holding hands in front of bright large windows, their legs lunging and their heads turned in different directions. They were sweat pants and t-shirts, shorts or tank tops, all of various colors. Some of them are looking to their right and down, others looking up and left.
Photo: Julie Lemberger
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Approaching the End: Open Rehearsals with Stephen Petronio Company

Brendan McCall

Petronio Company's intimate and moving rehearsals during their final season.

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