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Zoe|Juniper at the ICA
Zoe/Juniper at the ICA

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 26, 2009

Mujeres

Female dancers Isabel Bayón, Soledad Barrios featured in Flamenco festival
Isabel Bayón played an eternal feminine archetype, surrounding herself with proud, seductive gestures.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 17, 2009

Review: Jiří Kylián's Black and White at Boston Ballet

Dance noir
The Czech choreographer/Nederlands Dans Theater director made an evening out of five pieces — No More Play, Petite Mort, Sarabande, Falling Angels, and Sechs Tänze — he'd created between 1986 and 1991.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 19, 2009

Dancing ballet or not

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Celebrity Series program at the Cutler Majestic last weekend could have been a primer of the ways not to dance ballet.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 10, 2009

Wisps and a volcano

Crabtree, Morgan, Dorfman
Two concerts last week by mid-career artists who are still looking into life's persistent questions: Brian Crabtree, Marjorie Morgan, and dancers at the Dance Complex, and David Dorfman Dance at Salem State College.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 03, 2009

Clara Ramona at BU

Styles show
Boston-based Mavi Dance produced the performances of Clara Ramona's "Sangre flamenca en gira" ("Flamenco Blood on Tour") at the Boston University Dance Theater last weekend, but the international dance group offered only two numbers on the long program.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 26, 2009

Review: Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center

Tidal wave
Gotham was awash in dance during early January as the annual Dance on Camera Festival coincided with the conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (better known as APAP, the national bookers' convention).

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 20, 2009

Adam and Eve

It's boy-meets-girl at New York City Ballet
A day at New York City Ballet that starts with a matinee of Coppélia and ends with a Balanchine evening might seem to offer merely the contrast between classic and modern, old and new.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 13, 2009

Daniel Nagrin

(1917–2008)
Daniel Nagrin was one of the last surviving stars of modern dance's second generation.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 12, 2009

Sizzling frost

Dance heat 2009
The winter dance season starts out promoting international coexistence.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 29, 2008

Year in Dance: Reusable histories & durable trends

No startling breakthroughs, but that's okay
Conservation is a good thing in these times, and some of the most interesting performances drew on the uses of history — personal history, performance history, and even some inventions that sought to overturn history.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 24, 2008

Mixed nuts

Ballet Rox's Urban Nutcracker
Ballet Rox's Urban Nutcracker , the ultimate multicultural Christmas celebration, has become so inclusive, it's almost a blur.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 19, 2008

Not so great

San Francisco's Nutcracker on PBS
Way back in 1977, PBS gave us a Nutcracker with a difference: Mikhail Baryshnikov as an electrifying Nutcracker/Cavalier and willowy Gelsey Kirkland as an older-than-usual Clara, as the Sugar Plum Fairy.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | December 02, 2008

Smaller is better

Boston Ballet's Nutcracker at the Opera House
Next fall, Boston Ballet will move all its performing operations to the Opera House from Citi Performing Arts Center's immense and unfriendly Wang Theatre.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 05, 2008

Gongs with robot

Gamelan Galak Tika does crossover
The Balinese gamelan, a close-knit ensemble of percussion, flute, and voices, preserves some of the oldest music in the world as an essential part of ritual and secular occasions.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 25, 2008

Dynamos

Philadanco at the ICA
The four pieces on the program that Philadanco brought for its Boston debut last weekend at the Institute for Contemporary Art were all-dance numbers showcasing a troupe of highly polished, supercharged dancers.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 18, 2008

Steps . . . and more steps

Boston Conservatory and BoSoma make dance work hard
Martha Graham’s Steps in the Street doesn’t look anything like a dance of the 21st century, but at the end of Boston Conservatory’s fall program last weekend it fit right in.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 17, 2008

Conflict and convergence

Bill T. Jones and Celtic Tap at the ICA
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition is an elegant layering of dance, design, music, and words.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 28, 2008

Wising up

James Kudelka’s Cinderella at Boston Ballet
Sergei Prokofiev’s two classical ballets invariably find Boston Ballet playing the dating game.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 22, 2008

State of the art

Boston Ballet’s third ‘Night of Stars’
Maybe it’s the economy, but Boston Ballet’s third-annual season-opening gala was a sober evening, without the orchestral overture that graced the first two affairs.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | October 17, 2008

Floor show

Sara Hook at Harvard
Sara Hook explains the title of her cabaret piece Salad Days as a reference to youth and indiscretion.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 01, 2008

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