Thursday, April 11, 2013
In her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
This week the Cunningham Dance Foundation released The Legacy Plan, a series of steps to document and preserve Merce Cunningham's choreographies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:22PMMonday, April 8, 2013
You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community's drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:44PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
Composer James MacMillan's musical strategy in this opera is a stylistic patchwork that seems to mean to convey that each character inhabits a different, mutually misunderstood world.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage to Richard Kostelanetz, 1988
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:37PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
At first glance, Oz and Oz-Salzberger's "Jews and Words" seems to be an unexceptional if elegantly written and occasionally witty contribution to the Jewish bookshelf.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:38PMFriday, December 7, 2012
This version of "La Belle et la Bête" never commits to a through-line about how its metaphors and rich visual imagery are supposed to operate.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:25PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Cut out of translucent and colored ox or donkey hide (sorry, PETA), they are foot and a half tall, two-dimensional figures operated by rods set up behind a slightly canted screen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMSunday, November 4, 2012
Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and Aaron Mattocks stepped, bounced, shrieked and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:47PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Where "Little Rhapsodies" is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, "Crisis Variations", choreographed last season, lurches into the void.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Anna Sokolow's art was the gift of distillation, designed around the choreographic mot juste and saying only that and nothing else. Performed by the right dancers, adequately coached, that s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMSaturday, September 8, 2012
The latest play by the celebrated Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua is a historical drama that revolves around an imaginary conversation between two major political rivals about Zionism and the f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36PMIn the encyclopedic, fascinating, and intermittently infuriating "The Woman Reader," author Belinda Jack argues that we should be not fear the battle between paper vs. pixels, but value read…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMFriday, August 17, 2012
The late Remy Charlip always crossed from the visual to the kinetic and back again.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:00PMSunday, July 1, 2012
This is the first of a series of occasional essays where Fuse Dance Critic Debra Cash will reflect on dances made for camera and new technologies. As they used to say, don't touch that dial!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:26PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Simon Garfield's tour of fonts, Just My Type, is a rollicking, sometimes snarky social history of the design decisions behind lettering from Gutenberg to the iPad.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:02PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Literally seating himself under a spotlight at the center of the stage, celebrated choreographer Bill T. Jones indulged in a celebrity interview with himself, sharing moving and mundane auto…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMThursday, March 8, 2012
When the Boston Jewish Music Festival presented a special afternoon of Lazer Weiner’s Yiddish Art Songs, it became clear that it’s time for a reappraisal that will bring these small, int…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:28AMWednesday, December 28, 2011
Adrienne Cooper’s strong voice –- musically, linguistically and as a vibrant feminist presence –- shaped the revival of klezmer music in the 1980s and beyond, but her legacy is diffuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:29AMMonday, December 26, 2011
As a dancer, Pina Bausch was the presiding spirit of speechlessness. She had the macabre body of an anorexic, but her matchstick arms communicated entire inner worlds.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:16PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Martha Graham famously said, "I wanted to find a way to reveal the inner landscape - to chart a graph of the heart." So now it’s your turn to play therapist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16PMSaturday, November 19, 2011
This is the fourth installment of Debra Cash’s coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Dance/Draw exhibition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:53PMSunday, November 13, 2011
This is the third installment of Debra Cash’s coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Dance/Draw -- this time around its an appreciation of the Trisha Brow…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:28AMThursday, November 10, 2011
The second installment in Debra Cash’s coverage of the ICA’s ambitious Dance/Draw series.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMThursday, October 13, 2011
"Dance/Draw" at the ICA is a major exhibit about how moving bodies leave traces, what curator Helen Molesworth, not particularly originally, calls the “afterlife of dance.” To a lesser e…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AM 
