Reviews

Photo: Jen Kertis-Veit

“color FULL” Premieres at Mascher

Jonathan Stein

Loren Groenendaal, a playful interrogator of ideas and sensations, suggests that a colorful palette should be at the ready in the studio and in performance.

Photo: Stan Sadowski

Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company at 28

Lynn Matluck Brooks

It’s no minor feat to keep a company going for 28 years... Onward!

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Two Steps Forward…

Carolyn Merritt

Pennsylvania Ballet shines in the contemporary-influenced works of 'Director's Choice.'

Photo: Kathryn Raines

Beginning from a New Place

Ellen Chenoweth

The Remix Festival had choreographers start with someone else’s dance, and an audience remarkable for its collective concentration.

‘Danco Power Dance

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The dancers’ precision and elegance—placement of each limb, clarity of focus, intricately exact partnering, and silent landings from soaring leaps.

Photo: BodyFields Collective

Top Five Reasons You Should (or Shouldn’t?) Dance in Your Living Room

Whitney Weinstein

Whitney Weinstein enumerates the pros and cons of turning your living space into a stage.

Photo: Ellen Chenoweth

#mixingitup: 10 Hashtags Inspired by #GPSBodies

Ellen Chenoweth

#GPSBodies is an experience that is a little bit like a treasure hunt and a little bit like a dance performance, all mediated through Twitter.

Photo: Jessica Giacobbe

Making Nice, more or less

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

The nicest dance I have seen in a long time; nice like holding hands, or vanilla ice cream, or an easy breeze on an early spring day.

Photo: Julieanne Harris

Performance Art Physical Education

Ellen Chenoweth

CardioCreativity turned out to be an exuberant hybrid: half performance art, half physical education, combining into an unusual and unpredictable mixture.

Photo: LBrowning Photography

Cooking and Dancing in the Kitchen

Jonathan Stein

Marion Ramirez’s "Musa Paradisiaca," named after the banana tree of her native Puerto Rico, stirs together quotidian life, memory, cultural history and passionate art making.