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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Book Review: Dancer Ray Bolger — America’s Animated Cubist by Janine Parker

Via Ray Bolger’s trajectory we traverse the boards of Broadway and the silver screen of Hollywood — as well as the smaller, but equally thrilling, milieux of nightclubs and television st…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AM
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Dance Preview: The Latest Buzz about Luminarium Dance by Janine Parker

"The work is now stronger having successfully balanced both the needs of the visual choreography and the sound."

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PM
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Dance Review: Wayne McGregor’s Anemic “Rite of Spring” by Janine Parker

Could it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PM
Friday, August 26, 2011

Choreographers bring spirit, softness by Janine Parker

The young choreographers Camille A. Brown and Kyle Abraham, whose companies are sharing a double bill at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, end the evening with a duet, “How We Proce…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:57PM

Three decades of dancing on air with Mark Morris by Janine Parker

BECKET - We blinked, and suddenly the Mark Morris Dance Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Another blink, and it’s the last week of this year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:59PM
Friday, August 19, 2011

Separately, trio of dances soar at Jacob’s Pillow by Janine Parker

BECKET - At Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is demonstrating that in the three years since its last visit, the company has kept pace with the morphing cu…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:28PM
Friday, August 12, 2011

Choreographers make odd couple by Janine Parker

Sharing a double bill at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, the choreographers Jodi Melnick and David Neumann are a bit of an odd couple. Melnick, a delicate and precise mover, k…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:37PM

Retrospective of a legend by Janine Parker

BECKET - What becomes a legend most? The choreographer Trisha Brown, whose namesake company is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, has seen trends and movements come and go, and she …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:58PM
Friday, August 5, 2011

With paper and ping-pong balls, Bokaer makes magic by Janine Parker

We all come from somewhere, and the young choreographer and dancer Jonah Bokaer belongs to a spectacular lineage. He danced for Merce Cunningham, who danced for Martha Graham, who danced for…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:02PM

3e étage not your typical night at the ballet by Janine Parker

BECKET - The group 3e étage, made up of world-class dancers borrowed from the Paris Opera Ballet, is making its US debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week. In the program…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:31PM
Friday, July 29, 2011

At Jacob’s Pillow, troupe gives Greek myth a playful touch by Janine Parker

Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the co-directors of Big Dance Theater, whose “Supernatural Wife’’ is now being presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, deconstruct …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30PM

Brutality and brilliance from Seoul-based troupe by Janine Parker

BECKET - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, that wonderful little United Nations of dance, is proudly presenting, for the first time in its 79 seasons, a contemporary dance company from Ko…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PM
Friday, July 22, 2011

Duo’s abstract ‘Crack’ offers dance in multi-dimensions by Janine Parker

BECKET - Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey are young people with big visions, necessary and hopeful ingredients for the future of any field. At Jacob’s Pillow,…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PM
Friday, July 15, 2011

Lecavalier is still an energetic force by Janine Parker

It’s often thought that dance is a young person’s field, but this is only partly so: Louise Lecavalier, who danced with Édouard Lock’s company La La La Human Steps for nea…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:43PM

Contemporary Cuba by Janine Parker

BECKET - In the past decade-plus, audiences worldwide have stood in awe as a tidal wave of prodigiously talented ballet dancers has streamed from Cuba. This week, with the US debut of DanzAb…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PM
Friday, July 8, 2011

Strings attached by Janine Parker

BECKET - Through the irresistible metaphor of the puppetmaster and his creation, the choreographer Crystal Pite explores nothing less than life, death, and what happens in between in her eve…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:43AM
Friday, July 1, 2011

Barbie and Ken are all dolled up at Jacob’s Pillow festival by Janine Parker

O Barbie! My Barbie! That revered and reviled icon of anatomic impossibility is the star (sort of) of the 2011 dance theater piece “Beauty,’’ which is being presented by Ja…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:32PM

Chaos, beauty from Carte Blanche by Janine Parker

BECKET - The title is ugly, the unsmiling dancers move in strangulated awkwardness, the mood is decidedly aggressive if not hostile. Yet Sharon Eyal’s dance “Killer Pig,’&#…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:47PM
Friday, June 24, 2011

Keigwin troupe brings wit and style to festival by Janine Parker

BECKET — In dance, a good laugh is hard to find. Too much absurdity, and a dance falls apart; too much cynicism and a dance loses its truth. Larry Keigwin, whose Keigwin + Company is p…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:18PM

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