Reviews

Getting Up to Get Back Down

Andrew Sargus Klein

Ups and Downs is obsessed with audience experience—in expectation, in movement, in emphasis.

Photo: Carlos Avendaño

SaltSoul, in Dialogue, Ripples Through habitus

Jonathan Stein

Jungwoong Kim’s site-specific dance animates and expands fabric installation

Photo: Bill Hebert

Engaging Entanglements: Duende

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The through-line of the evening was clear: entanglement, sensitively enacted and explored among the musicians and dancers.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Levee des conflits: From the Inside Out

Ellen Chenoweth

Ellen Chenoweth and Beau Hancock casting back to Charmatz in the Fountain.

Photo: Megan Bridge

Gratitude in Transition

Kirsten Kaschock

As we pass the baton, a moment of reflection.

Photo: Meg Foley

Time Slips Away

Julius Ferraro

The framework—the “undergird”—is what this piece is about, and it is visible everywhere.

Photo: courtesy of Almanac Dance Circus Theater

The Fleecing: A Fantastical Escape Collides With Darkness

Megan Stern

We try to figure out the game, to understand the enigmatic logic that governs the devotees’ behavior.

Photo: Jen Cleary

Grief, Ritual, and Active Rejection

Julius Ferraro

The bastard: an urge to fall down, a depressive thought that won’t flush away, the bobbing reminder of personal failure.

Photo: Meredith Hanafi

Embodying Diasporic History

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A vibrantly woven tapestry of sound and movement.

Photo: Ilan Bachrach

Jean & Terry: Venturing Out of the Ordinary

Janna Meiring

A multi-layered trip into the idea of Universal Consciousness.