Reviews

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.

Photo: Adriano Shaplin

Deliciously Considered

Thomas Choinacky

Unlike anything I have seen or experienced before.

Photo: Mar C. Llop

The Body Endures

Megan Bridge

Three solo works move through contemporary notions of gender, pain, and the body.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Reflections from the Philadelphia Museum of Dance

Megan Bridge

Six tD writers report on the elements of the moving museum that moved them.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Three by PAB

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Moments of stunning vulnerability took my breath away.

Photo: J.H. Kertis

Ten Tiny Dances Alight at Mascher Space Cooperative

Jonathan Stein

A small army of rambunctious revelers attacked the square from four approaches.

Photo: Les Corps Eloquents

Ravishing Baroque Dance at Ravensong

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A virtuoso dancer, fine actor and deeply versed historian, Hazebroucq's baroque dancing thrilled.

Photo: Kate Raines

A Planet Made Soft

Jenna Horton

Shoes are not allowed. Crawling, burping, and being are.

Photo: Eliza Leighton

Illusions in a Red Room

Thomas Choinacky

Leighton has provocatively shaped a room that forces me into conflict.