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The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn Shaping Choreography across Continents November 2009 Two continents, two great rivers, and two of contemporary dance’s biggest talents: ... read more » |
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Ragamala Dance/Çudamani: Dhvee (Duality) September 2009 Ancient and innovative, profound and joyous, ... read more » |
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Raimund Hoghe: Bolero Variations September 2009 Simultaneously quiet and electrifying, ... read more » |
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Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce September 2009 Two cardboard coffins, ten pink biscuit wafers, six cans of Harp, a wig, and countless costume changes. . . . Acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh applies the frenetic antics of farce—an inherently British genre—to an Irish immigrant and his two grown sons. Holed up in their grimy London flat,... read more » |
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Memories of Merce Philip Bither September 2009 By now, many have recounted the profound impact that Merce Cunningham, who passed away in July at the age of 90, had on dance as well as the broader worlds of performing and visual arts. Fewer, perhaps, have noted how deeply he was also admired, in fact beloved, by so many in those worlds he... read more » |
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Rapid Expansion Three insiders explain why dance is thriving in the Twin Cities July 2009 How to celebrate the Twin Cities’ burgeoning dance scene? The Walker, with its nearly 40 years of support of local dance, is just one point within a sizable community, but it has played an essential, sometimes catalytic role. It is more than Momentum, the always-popular summer showcase for new... read more » |
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New World Dance: New York Three Powerful Performances Packed into One Evening May 2009 “Tony,” a child-size puppet with a cherubic doll’s face, a turtle-shell potbelly, and an otherwise spindly body made from odds and ends, is the surprising protagonist in Nami Yamamoto’s a howling flower. Four human performers maneuver around him, their sense of... read more » |
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All-American Experiments: Out There 2009 January 2009 There is singing, dancing, music, theater. There is impassioned oratory (and, possibly, some less charismatic speakers). There are urgent messages of social import, and opportunities for self-improvement. There are groups of locals coming together in a special, even sacred place to feel a sense of... read more » |
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Trisha Brown Draws on Her Muse—on Paper and Onstage Matt Peiken March 2008 In the 1970s, Trisha Brown created notational drawings as road maps for her dancers. Today, one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance draws with abandon, largely as a personal, impulsive expression unto itself. That is, of course, when she can muster the time. If she isn't steering the... read more » |
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20 Years of Out There Matt Peiken December 2007 January can be to the performing arts as the midnight hours are to television--repositories for the weird, the risky, and ultimately, test patterns. In that vein, nobody knew what to expect in 1989, when the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater defrosted their January calendars by clustering a... read more » |