Reviews

Photo: Agathe Poupeney

Faustin Linyekula, A Contemporary Dance Griot

Jonathan Stein

Longing and solitude in the Congo

Photo: Suncan Stone

Rhizomas: A Lesson in Contrast

Gregory King

King talks butoh and breakin' inside of the New Central Baptist Church.

Photo: Rhiannon Smith

Control and Self-Curation

Julius Ferraro

Here, that impulse of self-projection is indulged, but we lose control, the ability to curate.

Photo: Thomas Weir

Think Before You Speak

Rhonda Moore

femme.collective highlights works by nine choreographers around a common theme.

Photo: Will Drinker

Every Woman

Carolyn Merritt

Half off, your shirt smothers your head...and you are faceless, everywoman, and an uncanny double of Abu Ghraib prisoners.

Image: Ryne Fuller

Drill, Dash, Dream

Julius Ferraro

We start to see it for what it is: an exhausting relay, an impossible attempt to keep up.

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Power from the Past

Lisa Kraus

A work like Mary Wigman’s Hexentanz provides a jolting reminder of the power and intensity of early modern dance.

Photo: Jori Ketten

Fast, Poetic, Electromagnetic

Ellen Chenoweth

One narrator posits that miracles may not be possible, but this lo-fi, rickety cart-stage and its ingenious human operators o

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Trapped Between

Kirsten Kaschock

In Fore-ign/Fore-out, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Contact and Chaos: duende’s music and dance quartet

Julius Ferraro

Their spines are sinewy and roiling, their necks crane towards the ceiling, and their eyes roll upwards... this is a dance of