Reviews

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Intricate Inconsistencies

Whitney Weinstein

Complexions Contemporary Ballet's athleticism and movement skills went overlooked by none.

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NowHere/NoWhere: Two Views

Zornitsa Stoyanova

tD writers Lynn Brooks and Zornitsa Stoyanova intertwine their takes on performances at the NowHere Festival of Free Improvisation

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Chopin’s Sickly Hands

Julius Ferraro

Chopin Without Piano uses music in its dramatic application to reveal the way cultural revolutionaries are treated as cultural capital by appropriative governments.

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Silenced Voices Speak Up: Urban Bush Women

Lauren Samblanet

There is so much sadness and built-up anger, such a pressing need for strength, so much joy.

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Theater in the Wake

Kirsten Kaschock

Sometimes you are not in control of what wells up inside of you in response to art... Sometimes, maybe that’s what art is.

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To delight and to rot

Kat J. Sullivan

An aesthetic response to The Ripening Suite

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PAB: Pointe and Break

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Pennsylvania Ballet put on a dizzying display of the body's potential.

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Circuitflow

Kat J. Sullivan

The lights are high and the music is low as I ascend the sea foam-colored steps of The Iron Factory.

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Tierra

Carolyn Merritt

It felt right to perform tango, a product of immigration, in the lead-up to Pope Francis’s speech on immigration during his recent visit to Philadelphia.

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What Birds Can Teach Us about Life on Earth

Megan Stern

“I love birds,” the scientist says dreamily. “What can we learn from these caged lives?”