Reviews

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Opaque to Transparent: Revealing the Process in Works by Wilson, Linyekula, and Jones

Lisa Kraus

Finding the right balance in sharing behind-the-scenes work and thinking.

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They Play, They Dance, They Improv!

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Mascher Space’s H-O-T Series—a reminder that responsive, lively, daring dance and music can coexist.

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BalletX: A Ten-Year Retrospective of Technique and Theatrics

Gregory King

BalletX’s ten-year celebration was a thank-you note to Philadelphia.

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Poem for a Tree

Ellen Chenoweth

Kinetic tree, you mystify me.

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Diavolo’s Architecture in Motion: Dance With Some Extras!

Gregory King

I will keep Diavolo on my list of must-see entertainment.

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Seán Curran Company: A Well-Delivered Package of Post-Modernism

Gregory King

Representing nine religions the group performed Tai-Chi in an homage to integration.

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An Astronauts’ Rapacious Night

Patricia Graham

Should one talk in couplets or algorithms about Claudio Monteverdi’s opera, L’Orfeo, choreographed and directed by Trisha Bro

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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.

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Off the Wall Processions: Improvisation at PAFA

Jonathan Stein

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

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Whole: Without Any Parts Missing

Karl Surkan

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