Beau Hancock

Photo: Grant McMillan

Poetry (and Prose) in Motion

Darcy Grabenstein

Dance interpretation of written works wows writers at weekend workshop

Photo: Julia Fisher

Welcome to the Backyard

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Wherever they are—one or the other—I want to be, I want to see. They carry me, as they carry one another.

Photo: Megan Bridge

Lessons from the Backyard

Beau Hancock

A dialogue between Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock, on working with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson at Mad Brook Farm.

Photo: Bill Hebert

See Beau Run

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A night of short new works opens with a dance in outer space.

Photo: Tobin Rothlein

A Dark, Dismembered Happening

Jonathan Stein

The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).

Photo: Bill Hebert

dance fueled. writing driven.

Kilian Kröll

The nEW Festival presented four new works by its 2012 resident choreographers. Ellen Gerdes and Kilian Kröll attended, between them, four performances. They each wrote about the pieces, then mashed their words together.

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Seen and Heard: It’s Music to My Eyes

Ellen Gerdes

Promising “potential for disaster and greatness,” Blind Date: dance and music duos presented far more greatness than disaster.