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A dancer (Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez), wearing white pants and a sleeveless white top, is balanced on the ball of his right foot. His long arms are extended outwords, and both of his legs are bent. Another dancer (Aaron Loux), also wearing white, lunges on his right leg, and holds Gonzalez´s hand to help him suspend his balancing position. Behind the two of them, in front of a screen the color of deep blue, we can see other dancers standing in the distance, looking at them.
Photo: Maria Baranova, courtesy of New York Live Arts
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Artifacts of Thought from the Closeted Mind

Brendan McCall

Forty years on, Tere O’Connor’s dance visions remain personal, unpredictable, and provocative

In greyscale photograph, a hand emerges from the dark, fingers shades of white and grey like brushstrokes.
Photo: Rece Komorn
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Excavating the Imprint

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

Imbued with the qualities of the surroundIngs, they are receivers.

With eyes closed, Nadia Beugré holds a stick in her mouth and tilts her head to the left. More wooden sticks frame her face. She is sweaty, her right arm strong and flexed.
Photo: Werner Strouven
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Le Corps (The Body)

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

A body of work, a dancer’s body, a home for a human being, a “corps de ballet.”

Photo: Susan Kettering
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Momentary bliss in Northern Michigan

Ellen Miller

At Traverse City Dance Project, contemporary joy stole the show.

Photo: Spyros Stefanou
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A Study in Setting

Ellen Miller

At Leah Stein’s FILM WORKS screening, setting took center stage.

Photo: Rob Li
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Traversing Culture and Time – Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers’ Breath Into Air

Ziying Cui

Kun-Yang’s new piece “Breath Into Air” traverses cultural boundaries by exploring a collective human consciousness.

Photo credit: Alexander Diaz
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A body/ a response

Ellen Miller

A dancer inspires a filmmaker, and a filmmaker inspires a poet.

Photo: Paul Kolnik
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Invitation to Joy

Ellen Miller

In new and old work, Ailey’s dancers invite us to embody the joy of their expression

Photo: Pablo Meninato
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Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

Photo: Larry Dixon
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Shifting Colors and Disco Balls

Madeline Shuron

It’s a piece about the localized bioenergetic field that surrounds living beings, and the dancers play with this energy.