Reviews

Photo: Kyle Cassidy

The Community’s King Lear

Barbora Příhodová

The audience at Clark Park went all the way with the old King, to the tragic end.

Photo: Johanna Austin

An Electrifying Choreopoem from Moor Mother

Mira Treatman

The cast returns for bows. Ayewa is beaming. They went to war, they have their drums.

Photo: Louis Kang and Asian Arts Initiative

Open Invitation At Asian Arts Initiative

Maddie Hopfield

When Cat announces that time is up and the piece is over, we scoot our chairs in further, hungry to keep the conversation goi

Photo: Evan Dawson

Fresh Juice Fest: Attending to Time and Space

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Featuring works both improvised and composed, the performance asks me to bring my attention to time and to space.

Photo: RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Marie Geneviève Van Goethem, aka “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”

Carolyn Merritt

Like a sculptor aiming for a semblance of life, the author adjusts her sights beyond the facts, on Marie Van Goethem’s soul.

Photo: Gema Galiana

Milka Djordjevich’s Anthemic Opus

Mira Treatman

It makes sense somehow, as postmodern gumbo usually does.

Photo: Lynn Brooks

Ballet: What is the Matter?

Jennifer Fisher's new book, a memoir-as-ethnographic study

Photo: Johanna Austin

Honestly Sincere

Miryam Coppersmith

Sincerity is a slippery thing to script.

Photo: Lauren Hirsch

Ballet Up Close and Personal with Bryan Koulman

Koulman’s fine group of artists splashed balletic bravura across the footlights.

Photo: Daniel Kontz

Side by Side: Philadelphia Churches (and bodies in them)

Jenna Horton

Grounds that Shout! continues Reggie Wilson’s research into sacred spaces, ecstatic movement, and African diasporic experienc