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Photo: Eyal Landesman

Inside Oyster

Ellen Gerdes

Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.

Spectacle at the Center of RubberbanDance’s Latest

Jim Rutter

In his Poetics, Aristotle derided spectacle as the least important artistic aspect of a performance. RubberbanDance Group’s Gravity of Center shows that sometimes, spectacle’s all you’ve got.

Photo: Sonny Tong

Lots of Glitter, Few Stars

Jonathan Stein

In this season of Nutcrackers, feuding Republicans, and holiday kitsch, the Annenberg’s Dance Celebration Series brought us “Champions of the Dance.”

Photo: Courtesy of Marie Chouinard

Compagnie Marie Chouinard Swoops on the Annenberg

Megan Bridge

Chouinard’s work “reflects her deepest concerns as an artist...each new work must invent and explore a whole new universe.”

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My Drama with Dance Competitions

Kilian Kröll

Our correspondent reports why you'll see him in the front row at the Annenberg for Champions of Dance.

Photo: Jeff Busby

Pulling Strings: Chunky Move’s Connected

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A light-filled mobile, electronic music, patches of light, and five performers who dance, speak, act, and finish the mobile’s assemblage – all weave integrally into the work’s fabric.

photo: C.T. Satyagit

Tradition and Transcendence: An Evening with Shantala Shivalingappa

Carolyn Merritt

Born in India and raised in Paris, this “child of the east and west” has been hailed by critics for transcending culture...