Reviews

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Ballet Beasts: Animals All

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Our movement, our mating, our social veneer, and our violence barely sheathe our inner beastliness.

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He is Chris, Chris he is, and he is beautiful

Lisa Kraus

Christopher Knowles’ performance brings us into his world, one that’s precise, repetitive, forthright, fantastical, and perhaps obsessive.

Criticism For Theatre’s Sake

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- an excerpt from Mark Fisher's 2015 book.

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Oh and Anne Teresa

Kat J. Sullivan

Boris Charmatz strides out and then you, Anne Teresa.

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Dancing Detours

Jay Oatis

Los Angeles is infamous for its traffic. The evening of work that LA-based company BODYTRAFFIC presented at the Prince Theater felt congested.

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On Not Bowing

Published in collaboration with culturebot.org, John Hoobyar writes about the expectation of bowing or not after the show.

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How to Dance Bach

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The ridiculous and the sublime in Twyla Tharp: 50th Anniversary Tour and De Keersmaeker's Partita 2.

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Trisha Brown Revisited

Rhonda Moore

The early '70s pieces remain stridently current, thanks to the timeless quality of Brown’s work.

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Firestorm

Sara Graybeal

Tablao Philly--an experience of unbridled crescendo, a night that accelerated in vigor, skill, and intensity until the end.

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Architectural Tuning

Megan Bridge

Partita 2 asks us not just to note the passing of time, but to participate kinesthetically in time’s ticking.