Reviews

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The Book is Always Better

Thomas Choinacky

Reading and seeing at American Realness.

Photo: Paula Court

Electric Okwui

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

Okpokwasili outshines everyone and everything else on stage; her performance is worth the price of admission.

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence: Dancing Through the Spirit

Rhonda Moore

Brown's choreography comes from a place of faith.

Photo: The Painted Bride

The People Speak: Belle Alvarez & ILL DOOTS

Rhonda Moore

The questions remain: are you watching or doing, welcoming or rejecting, giving or taking?

Photo: Darcy Lyons

Heads Together; Feet in the Snow

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Lyons’ choreography sits over this duo’s relationship like an Instagram filter: they’re themselves, but a slightly different

Photo: Kailey Prior

Summoning and Embodying Black Ancestry

Thomas Choinacky

Kosoko's shapeshifting performance summons and witnesses radical thinkers.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Architectures of Time and Space

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Hellmut and Brenda hold the stage as centers of calm, strength, and wisdom amid BalletX’s young virtuosi.

Photo: Bill Hebert

I Wanted to Love You, Blood Wedding

Jenna Horton

Their bodies create a sense of enclosing dread, a weight that becomes too heavy without counter.

Photo: Subcircle

Hold Still While We Try to Figure This Out Together

Kirsten Kaschock

The piece exposes its own process, inviting the viewer to ask what it means to do this work.

Photo: Lauren Mandilian Huot

Absolution in the Witness, in the First Breath

Kat J. Sullivan

A single burst of color across a backdrop of white sheets.