121 stories by "Debra Cash"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
In 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…
The late Remy Charlip always crossed from the visual to the kinetic and back again.
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!
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.
The new documentary,
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…
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, intense…
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.
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.
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.
This is the fourth installment of Debra Cash's coverage of events associated with the Institute of Contemporary Art's Dance/Draw exhibition.
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 Brown Da…
The second installment in Debra Cash's coverage of the ICA's ambitious Dance/Draw series.
"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 exten…
