Reviews

Photo: Lily Kind

UMA Artists in Residence

Preeti Pathak

A review of partnership and performance: "yes, this is she" is quirky, funny, kinetic, kooky. The piece came out of a year-lo

Photo: Peggy Woolsey

What Do You Want To Lose (Now)?

Maddie Hopfield

The performers’ camaraderie gives the evening the overall feel of an album rather than a collection of disparate singles.

Photo: Mascher Space Cooperative

Coalescing in Context: Movement Sound Experiment at Mascher

Kat J. Sullivan

The patterns and places of synchronicity gave the evening a sense of unity.

Photo: Peter Price

Rendering the Now: Process Project with fidget

Kat J. Sullivan

This duality between divulging and concealing feels fascinating rather than alienating.

Photo: Julieanne Harris

PHILADANCO Moves

Miryam Coppersmith

Through the night of differing choreographic tastes, it is PHILADANCO’s dancers that shine.

Photo: Effy Falck

Abby Z and the New Utility Electrifies

Maddie Hopfield

The space is awash in exhalations often culturally linked to sex or violence. The animal body. The body as energy.

Photo: Milan Misko

I don’t need to see Jessica Lang Dance

Kat J. Sullivan

I found the work to be pre-digested to the point of blandness.

Photo: Group Motion

Ritual Structures: The Work of Group Motion

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

A new book review on "Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation."

Photo: Art Reach

“I Am” Documentary Review

Preeti Pathak

This documentary breaks down barriers and opens the door to those left out of the performing arts.

Photo: Stephanie Ramones Contigo

Contemporary Dance, Gendered Norms

Maddie Hopfield

"Come Together" left me wondering about the amorphous amalgam that is contemporary dance in the United States.