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Jacob's Pillow—The Immersive Dance Experience
Taylor Stanley and Ashton Edwards in Mango. Photo: Jamie KrausJacob’s Pillow. Is there a better place in the summer to experience all that dance has to offer?A recent Sunday spent there says no!, at...
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A Few Reasons to Love Alonzo King Lines Ballet
Adji Cissoko in Four Heart Testaments. Photo: Danica Paulos.Random notes from the Alonzo King Lines Ballet's August 7, 2022 Jacob's Pillow performance of Four Heart Testaments and Azoth.No traditional...
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Miami City Ballet Flourishes
Hannah Fischer, Cameron Catazaro, and Adrienne Carter in Diversion of Angels. Photo: Christopher DugganMiami City Ballet closed out Jacob’s Pillow’s 2022 summer festival with a flourish. The selection...
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Happy 85th to Philip Glass
Maki Namekawa on piano. Photo: Susan YungThe Glass Etudes at Kaatsbaan Celebrating Philip Glass’s 85th Birthday offered two ways to experience the composer’s music—played live by a solo pianist, and...
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New York Notebook, October 2022
In the Upper Room. Photo: Christopher DugganTwyla Tharp, the pioneering sui generis choreographer now in her 80s, continues to make new work, but when you've created such beloved icons as In the Upper...
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Lovette Delivers at Taylor; Alex Katz at Guggenheim; Transverse Orientation...
John Harnage in Solitaire. Photo: Whitney Browne"Taylor—A New Era" These simple, clear words headlined the cover of Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Playbill for its 2022 fall run at the Koch Theater. Since...
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Dance, Macro to Micro
Are You in Your Feelings?, photo by Paul KolnikAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City CenterChoreographer Kyle Abraham is completely relaxed in his working process, picking and choosing...
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Exceptional books from 2022FICTIONTrust, Hernán DíazDimensional takes on one tale. The book’s first part feels slightly lackluster, but Díaz’s structural pivot halfway through dazzled. The different...
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Reading Fiction while Being Asian
In the entertaining novel The Chinese Groove, Kathryn Ma glides between memories of the main character Shelley’s childhood in Gejiu, China, and his new, hard-won life as a college student in San...
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New York Notebook, June 2023
Gallim in state, presaging the Martianscape of June 7. Photo: Steven PisanoI took in some shows just before the atmospheric invasion from the Canadian wildfires that transformed the city into a Martian...
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Competing with the Sun in Chatham
Mercuric Tidings. Photo: Steven TaylorBeing a choreographer is difficult. Carrying a choreographer's legacy is no easy task either, especially given that the company must remain relevant. In recent...
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The Look of Love's Warm Embrace
The Look of Love. Photo: Christopher DugganThere are many reasons to embrace The Look of Love by Mark Morris, a suite to songs by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David, which I saw at Jacob’s Pillow...
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Vertiginous Thrills at the Pillow
Young Gyu Choi and Riho Sakomoto in Variations for Two Couples.Photo by Christopher DugganDutch National Ballet brought a widely varied slate of repertory to Jacob’s Pillow this month, proving that its...
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A Perfect Midsummer Evening at SPAC
Anthony Huxley in Scherzo Fantastique. Photo: Paul KolnikAt a perilous geoclimatic moment in the Anthropocene, the weather in Saratoga Springs on the evening of July 19 was positively a gift. Perhaps...
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Running Elevated to Art at PS21
Ethan Law, Sabina Bočková,Viktor Černický, Dora Sulženko Hoštova. Photo: Steven TaylorRunning… For your life. On empty. Errands. Toward something. Away from your troubles. Out of time. On pure...
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Mark Morris Dance Group Finally Alights at the Joyce
Tempus Perfectum. Photo: Danica PaulosMark Morris Dance Group performed at the Joyce for the first time, finally! Some fable would be an appropriate metaphor, whether it’s Goldilocks finding the right...
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Hanging Dance on Frames of Fiction and Technology
Maya Lee-Parritz and Jodi Melnick in Água Viva.Photo: And Or Forever (Carr Chadwick & Kate Hawkins)Água Viva, by Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-ParritzHudson Hall, Aug 27, 2023“You don’t understand...
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Sobelle's Enticing, Gluttonous, Enlightening FOOD
Geoff Sobelle, exemplary waiter. Photo: Stephanie BergerGeoff Sobelle taps into just every imaginable topic surrounding FOOD, the title of his latest theater work. These range from how city dwellers...
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Fallen Trees Find New Life in Art
The final sculptureMy friend Bob Bangiola, an artist in Hudson, asked me to help him construct a sculpture in his back yard, which overlooks a vast, marshy expanse. He uses found wood—tree limbs,...
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New York Notebook, Dec 2023
adaku, part 1: the road opens. Photo: Tony Turneradaku, part 1: the road opensBAM Next Wave Festival, BAM FisherIn murky light, seven clustered women tread a circle, shuffling and hopping, at times...
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