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Skunks and Squirrels, Moths and Butterflies, and Ghosts
Infinity Dance Theater and Alison Cook Beatty Dance The Riverside Church Theatre New York, New York June 28, 2019 Touched by Fire, Ghosts in the Machine, Mahaway: Spring Eternal, Pietà Jerry Hochman A...
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American Ballet Theatre: Three Beauties, Two Swans, and a Bell
American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center New York, New York June 25 and 26 afternoon; July 1, 2, 3 afternoon, and 5, 2019 Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Season Wrap-Up Jerry...
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The Bournonville Legacy at The Joyce
[pending receipt of performance photographs] The Bournonville Legacy (dancers from The Royal Danish Ballet) The Joyce Theater New York, New York July 9, 2019 La Sylphide (Act II); “A Bournonville...
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Maria Kochetkova and Friends: Caught at the Joyce
Maria Kochetkova: “Catch Her If You Can” The Joyce Theater New York, New York July 16, 2019 Bach Duet (from New Suite); Painting Greys; Tué; Degunino; White Swan Pas de Deux; Rachel, Nevada (world...
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American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Vienna, Virginia July 13, 2019 Carmel Morgan On July 13, 2019, I caught the third and final performance of Swan Lake by American Ballet Theatre (“ABT”)...
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Dutch National Ballet Junior Company
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House London 5 July 2019 Maggie Foyer The Junior Company, founded in 2013, forms an important element in the life cycle of the mother company, as each year several of the...
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Seattle Dance Collective: Vashon, Vashon
Seattle Dance Collective Vashon Center for the Arts Vashon Island, Washington July 13, 2019 In Less Than a Minute, The Grey Area, Shogun, Sur Le Fil, Anamnesis, Frugivory, Mopey Dean Speer It has been...
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Cunningham Centennial Celebration: John Scott Dance & DC MinEvent
Dance Place Washington, DC July 27, 2019 Carmel Morgan Have you celebrated Merce Cunningham yet this year? Had he lived a decade longer Cunningham would have turned 100 in 2019. In honor of the...
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Six Degrees of Separation: Becoming Choreographers
Six Degrees of Separation The Mark O’Donnell Theater Brooklyn, New York July 27, 2019 Rovaco Dance Company: Sex Robot (excerpt from Kama) One Day Dance: After the Tone Six Degrees Dance: Fissure...
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Area Woman: Ephemeral Fatale
Right Proper Brewing Co. Brookland Production House Washington, DC August 14, 2019 Carmel Morgan Summer usually provides dance critics with an opportunity to see new things. The major professional...
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Choe Contemporary Dance Company: Chaos & Liar
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Family Theater Washington, DC August 18, 2019 Carmel Morgan The Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., does an excellent job showcasing Korean...
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The Joyce Ballet Festival, Royal Ballet Stars, and Spencerian Ignorance
The Joyce Ballet Festival The Joyce Theater New York, New York August 6, 10, 13, and 16, 2019 Program A: Asphodel Meadows Pas de Deux, Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Concerto Pas de Deux, Within the...
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New Adventures: Romeo and Juliet
Sadler’s Wells, London 9th August 2019 Stuart Sweeney Matthew Bourne is a unique voice in the dance world: creating emotionally charged, accessible works which combine serious themes with humour. In...
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Preview: Joshua Beamish’s @giselle
@giselle Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver, British Columbia September 5, 6, and 7, 2019 World Premiere Preview Jerry Hochman Joshua Beamish’s new production of Giselle, titled @giselle, will celebrate its...
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There’s An Arc To It: ARC Dance Company’s 20th Anniversary Program
ARC Dance Company Bagley Wright Theater – Seattle Center Seattle, WA August 11, 2019 20th Anniversary Program (Program 2): QUE!, Schumann, THE END (Study in Action 4), Black and White, Infinitum,...
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Guangzhou Ballet: Passionless Precision, Impressive Potential
Guangzhou Ballet of China David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York August 17, 2019 Goddess of the Luo River, Carmina Burana Jerry Hochman It’s tempting to be dismissive of Guangzhou...
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inQUAD 2019: easy to take, or hard to swallow
inQUAD 2019 Dixon Place New York, New York August 23, 2019 kamrDance: Everything is taken care of; Are you or do you?, hard to swallow Lauren Beirne Dance Works: the principles, part 6 mignolo dance:...
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The Madness of Giselle: an Exploration
In advance of Boston Ballet’s new production of Giselle, one of CriticalDance’s regular contributors, Carla DeFord, has written an essay that discusses the ballet in general, and Giselle’s mad scene in...
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Extreme Lengths Productions: I made this dance and nobody cares but you.
Dance Place Washington, DC September 6, 2019 Carmel Morgan There are times when one wants to get lost in the anonymity of being in a crowd, when one longs for the communal experience of witnessing...
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New Chamber Ballet: Worth the Effort
[pending receipt of additional performance photographs] New Chamber Ballet New York City Center, Studio 5 New York, New York September 13, 2019 The Night (world premiere) Jerry Hochman For the first...
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