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After decades of growth, dance scene seems ready to soar

8/28/2008 10:36:00 PM

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Rule bender shakes ballet model

8/28/2008 10:36:00 PM

Source: Orlando Sentinel

GALA OF THE STARS

8/28/2008 10:35:59 PM

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Young dancer's career soars on the PNB stage

8/28/2008 5:06:50 PM

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ABT Reveals Rabbit and Rogue, Revives Etudes

8/28/2008 2:05:07 PM

Source: LA Weekly

Lots of fancy footwork at Bumbershoot

8/27/2008 6:48:27 PM

Source: Seattle Times

Danny Elfman

8/15/2008 8:29:52 PM

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Blogs

Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics

8/28/2008 4:33:05 AM

Source: 43 Folders

Latest Articles

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North Shore's snazzy revival of contact

Plus, Gurnet’s Essential Self-Defense
For a Broadway show, contact is closer to Twyla Tharp than George M. Cohan.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  June 17, 2008
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Prodigies old and new

Tharp’s Rabbit and Rogue at ABT, Ratmansky and Robbins at NYCB
Tharp’s dances almost invariably have a euphoric effect on their first audiences, even when they miss their mark and don’t hold up over the long run.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 10, 2008
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Where the chips fell

Marjorie Morgan, Karl Cronin, Lucinda Childs, and Boston Ballet
Dance history reverberated across Boston during the past few weeks, affirming that how we live now owes a lot to how we’ve chosen to remember — and forget.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 28, 2008
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Mastering the masterpieces

Boston Ballet takes on Balanchine, Tudor, and Tharp
It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane, but this weekend Boston Ballet is revisiting some pieces and choreographers it hasn’t performed in the Mikko Nissinen era.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 21, 2008
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Balancing act

Interview: Mikko Nissinen and Boston Ballet
It’s been quite a year for Boston Ballet.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  May 14, 2008
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Theatrics

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
There’s got to be more to the future than the spectacle of gaudier and gaudier soulless cyberbodies.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  March 12, 2008
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Quo vadis?

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
“Next Generation” is the kind of ballet-program title that might have you asking yourself what happened to “This Generation."
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  March 10, 2008
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Bytes

'Ten's the Limit' at the ICA
The notion of confining entries to 10 minutes seems arbitrary — why not four choreographers doing 20-minute dances?
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  January 22, 2008
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Rich menu

And Hubbard Street Dance deliver
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago proved a worthy finale for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 75th-anniversary season.
By JANINE PARKER  |  August 29, 2007

Converging streams

Ailey does Ailey and Tharp, plus Caitlin Corbett
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater offered two milestones in the development of contemporary dance during its annual Celebrity Series visit to the Wang Theatre last week.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 01, 2007
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Terpsichore’s delight

The joys of spring dance
Traveling troupes and local dancemakers spring up around the Boston area this season.
By DEBRA CASH  |  March 13, 2007
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L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues

 A year in dance
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  December 20, 2006
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Jumpin’ Joel

Movin’ Out is more than just a hit parade
To say that Movin’ Out is more than a jukebox musical only begins to describe its ambitions.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  November 29, 2006
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Harvard Square

Ground zero for so much, for so many
Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 15, 2006
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Stepping right up

Twyla’s Dylan in New York; Rhythm at the Regent
Bob Dylan’s music isn’t the first thing you’d think of as the basis for a dance show.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  November 01, 2006
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Lines and phases

Steve Reich’s 70th at BAM
Lots of people have choreographed Steve Reich’s music.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  October 10, 2006
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Great music, great dance

Getting inside Twyla Tharp’s Deuce Coupe
An excerpt from Phoenix dance critic Marcia B. Siegel's Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance .
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 28, 2006
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Movin’ in

Twyla and Billy are back
Most of the people screaming and rocking at the Opera House last Wednesday night probably thought they were at a Billy Joel concert.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 23, 2006
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Measure for measure

Ensemble Doulce Mémoire, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake , Robert Spano’s Sibelius , H&H’s St. Matthew Passion
“Great Ball at the Court of France,” which Ensemble Doulce Mémoire presented at the First Congregational Church in Cambridge last Friday, under the auspices of the Boston Early Music Festival, was a reminder that classical music used to be all about two popular forms, song and dance.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  April 26, 2006

Collage of culture

Brown’s Hair is making a statement  
Peace, love, and good vibes — with bells on. Add to that a festive atmosphere, a social conscience, and a psychedelic rock score, and you have a fair summary of the epochal musical Hair , which Brown University Theater is staging through March 19.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  March 16, 2006

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