Reviews

Photo: Liz Lynch

Shared Topographies, Individual Paths

Meredith Bove

At the American Dance Institute in DC, Jane Comfort’s new, untitled work-in-progress makes for glorious people-watching.

Photo: Denise Guerin

Off the Wall Processions: Improvisation at PAFA

Jonathan Stein

Graffito Works’s dancers manifested Lewis’s merged abstraction and figuration, an elusive combination.

Photo: Terrell Halsey

Whole: Without Any Parts Missing

Karl Surkan

Coaction Dance Collective presented work layering spoken word, storytelling, and problem solving.

Photo: Beatriz Schiller

Taking Flight with Limón

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Pavane’s tight structure reveals the power of constrained form channeling explosive emotion.

Photo: Eric Bandiero

Elisa Monte Dance: To Another Thirty-Five Years!

Gregory King

The 35th-anniversary concert of New York-based Elisa Monte Dance was both a welcome and a farewell.

Photo: Ian Douglas

Archiving Occupation, Identity and Resistance

Nicole Bindler

Divorced from context, Zaides's movements make the very consequential gestures of settlers, police and army seem mundane.

Photo: Matthew Murphy

Dance Theatre of Harlem: Still a Beacon of Hope!

Gregory King

There is no doubt in my mind that Dance Theatre of Harlem is back.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Don Quixote: Digging the Details

Lynn Matluck Brooks

It was delightful, from the pantomime characters to the virtuosic leads.

Photo: Thomas Weir

cherchez la femme

Sara Graybeal

A collage of earnestness, passion and truth-telling, created by and for women.

Photo: Liz Lynch

Our Heroic, Dying Bodies

Meredith Bove

Dance has the capacity to force us to confront our own mortality, our volatile bodies: Joe Goode's "The Resilience Project."