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Deborah Hay, queen of improv
The antithesis of a control freak
Unlike most choreographers, Deborah Hay encourages dancers to stamp their own personalities on her work. The short-term results of this experimentation can be underwhelming, but over the long run the rewards are profound.
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Techno-orgy: "Science Per Forms' and "Fresh Juice'
When dancers meet machines
At its best, the new genre of “dance and technology” is a wonderfully realized integration— in which the viewer doesn't have to choose between watching the dance or the technological elements, but can experience both as a synthesized medium.
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Dance at the Fringe: Something missing
Looking for dance in all the wrong places
This year's Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival offered a great deal of movement but precious little in the way of genuine dance. A loss of funding was the culprit.
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Jumatatu Poe's "Private Places' at Live Arts Festival
What we can learn from airline stewardesses
Jumatatu Poe's provocative if uneven Private Places ultimately delivers a prescient message: that dehumanizing, societal and capitalist controls on our lives contain the seeds of their own disintegration.
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Sylvain Émard's Grand Continental at Live Arts Festival
What Barack and Mitt could learn from the Fringe
In Le Grand Continental, ordinary citizens achieved the impossible. Is there a lesson here for local and national governments?
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How to write a dance review
So you want to be a dance critic?
The New York Times Book Review's recent male-dominated issue on “How-To” books provoked an anguished plea for more “How-To” pieces by women. As a long-standing member of the shrinking society of professional American critics, I offer my modest contribution to the cause of gender balance.
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BalletX Summer Series: Farewell, Anitra
Sophisticated fun
BalletX did it again, assembling a program rich in musical choices, burnished by exceptionally challenging choreography that kept dancers and audience alike on edge.
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Commotion Festival: The city as a work of art
The city you thought you knew
What James Joyce did for Dublin, Commotion Festival is doing for three emerging Philadelphia neighborhoods— that is, savoring the poetry in the lives of ordinary urban people and places.
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Pennsylvania Ballet plays it safe
Pennsylvania Ballet's quandary: Daring dancers, cautious programs
The Pennsylvania Ballet could be an international sensation instead of a regional stalwart if it didn't play it so safe.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Peter Pan' (2nd review)
Peter, we hardly knew ye
Pennsylvania Ballet's Peter Pan was sumptuous and entertaining. But unlike The Nutcracker, it probably left most kids clueless about its original enchanting characters and story.
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