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Recently staged to SOLD-OUT audiences at the Joburg Theatre, the Isandlwana Lecture: Narration...
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Return of the Revolutionaries: “rEVOLUTION” at the Boston Ballet
From Stravinsky’s dissonant strings heralding the arrival of four black and white clad men in the...
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Sally Abbott’s “I Think We Are Alone” at Theatre Royal Stratford East: Coolly Controlled Study of Loneliness
Once radical theatre companies are increasingly celebrating anniversaries, as if to say, hey,...
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The Bolshoi Theater School: Only in Russia and… Brazil
Twenty years ago, the school’s founders included leading Moscow ballet masters and today, a...
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Filming in Cunningham’s Footprints
Cunningham Directed by Alla Kovgan “A 3D cinematic experience about legendary American...
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“The Chains:” Dance Theatre Uganda Returns with a Bang!
We last saw them on stage in 2016. We thought they had gone down the way of most companies –...
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A Light in the Dark: “Unikkaaqtuat” a Joyful, Moderate Success at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre
From the pre-show announcement, we know we won’t catch all that is said onstage...
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“Chicago:” Presenting Crime as a Show
Chicago combines passion, adultery, crime, murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and...
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“Queen-Size:” Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private
Single Performance: Queen-Size, by Sandbox Collective, a dance-performance at Spaces, Chennai,...
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Willy Tsao: Hong Kong’s Dance Pioneer Embraces the Mainland
If anyone is responsible for Hong Kong’s contemporary dance scene, it’s Willy Tsao. Forty years...
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Bodily Dressage: Cruel and Optimistic Pleasures of the Speaking and Moving Body
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores how two performances of this year’s ImPulsTanz,...
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“Inchoate Buzz:” A Testing Ground for Interaction and Interdisciplinarity
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with...
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Dance on Screen. Three Moments from the 58th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia
Artists from three different and fairly distant parts of the world — Australia, Brazil and...
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Dance Umbrella’s “The Future Bursts In” at Linbury Theatre celebrates Merce Cunningham
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
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Dance Umbrella Celebrates Merce Cunningham Centenary with “The Future Bursts In” at the Linbury Theatre in London
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
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“VAST” Uses Physical Theatre to Drive Home the Point that Man Longs for Nature
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
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Dance Umbrella’s “Out of the System” at Bernie Grant Arts Centre
For the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer...
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An Expansive and Permeating Work Embracing Death and Humanity: A Paradox for Our Times: Gregory Maqoma – “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero”
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
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Longing for New and Mysterious Worlds at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet
Ballet Alice in Wonderland, and operas Carmen, Die Tote Stadt, and Das Rheingold. At the Finnish...
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“Palermo Palermo.” Now, Then and After
Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding...
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