Reviews

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

Photo: Blue Chemical Photography

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

Photo: Leanne Grieger

Sliding Into the Light

Individuals began confronting one another in primal, circular patterns. A fight for change has begun.

Photo: Lars Jan

Cracking Up In Chaos: Pandaemonium

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Nichole Canuso's "Pandaemonium" traverses mind-blowing scale in the course of its one-hour duration.

Photo: Michael Bartmann

Through the Café Glass: Leah Stein’s Portal

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Stein’s dancers were joined by eight community performers of various ages and backgrounds, a fine choice for Frieda's Café.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Life After Charmatz’ Levée des Conflits

Rhonda Moore

This piece, still new in my body, is already teaching me life lessons on flexibility of all kinds.