Reviews

Photo: Bill Hebert

And Yet We’re Still Here

Julius Ferraro

We don't touch like we once did.

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Tormented Genius: Jerome Robbins

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The New York Public Library offers a kaleidoscopic symposium about the life of Jerome Robbins.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.