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Love is a many splendored thing: Mesma Belsare's upcoming solo recital

Mesma Belsare is a border-crosser.

By: DEBRA CASH | January 30, 2013

Nicole Pierce walks The Walk

Dance maker Nicole Pierce was working the glue gun, constructing mossy objects, papier-mâché thingamabobs and items that she could hang from a net hoisted across the Art Deco balconies of the South End's Villa Victoria Center for the Arts.

By: DEBRA CASH | January 16, 2013

Trajal Harrell's postmodern harlem drag

A half-naked dancer gallops wildly around the stage, squealing and grimacing while another dressed in drag suggests to audience members that they have sex with "the uglies."

By: VALERIE GLADSTONE | January 08, 2013

Boston’s winter dance scene: Tapping and walking, stomping and flying

Boston's winter dance scene dips into the past, climbs onto the cutting-edge, and hosts guests from Spain, Brazil, Montreal and Copenhagen.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 26, 2012

Outer moves, inner beauty: Looking back on the year in Boston dance

Here, in no particular order, are some of the highlights of the year in Boston dance.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 14, 2012

Photos: Boston Ballet's Nutcracker at the Opera House

Boston Ballet stages The Nutcracker at the Opera House through December 30, 2012.

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | December 06, 2012

Boston Ballet's Nutcracker: Visions of Sugarplums

Boston Ballet's stunning re-visioned Nutcracker is the best $2 million–plus investment this company has ever made.

By: DEBRA CASH | December 07, 2012

Photos: The Nutcracker on the town

Out and about with the star of the Boston Ballet holiday show
Out and about with the star of the Boston Ballet holiday show

By: DANNY KIM | November 21, 2012

The Nutcracker: Building a better mousetrap?

Boston Ballet takes a chance by remaking its most successful production
"Without The Nutcracker , there'd be no ballet in America as we know it."

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 19, 2012

The five worst Nutcracker roles

My star-studded turns in a low-budget, small-town production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece
From the ages of eight to 16, I played just about every supporting role The Nutcracke r had to offer. Here are a few lowlights.

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | November 21, 2012

Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker gets a makeunder

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From November 23 through December 30, an expected 90,000 audience members will slide into seats at the Boston Opera House to take in The Nutcracker , a 42-year tradition for Boston Ballet and the result of countless hours of preparation — and not just for the dancers perfecting their moves in rehearsal rooms.

By: RENATA CERTO-WARE | November 19, 2012

Preview: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion at the ICA

"I had to do something," says choreographer/dancer Kyle Abraham, taking a break from rehearsing his company Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion in a downtown SoHo studio recently.

By: VALERIE GLADSTONE | November 07, 2012

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Tippett's Midsummer Marriage in concert

One of the great disappointments created by last year's mid-season demise of Opera Boston was that Boston wouldn't get its first viewing of Sir Michael Tippett's 1955 The Midsummer Marriage.

By: LLOYD SCHWARTZ | November 07, 2012

Angkor Dance Troupe’s Apsara Dancing Stones

Angkor Dance Troupe's Apsara Dancing Stones is a terrifying essay in beauty.

By: JONATHAN RICHMOND | November 02, 2012

Boston Ballet: falling Awake

Almost every dance by Jorma Elo opens with men rushing from the wings and erupting in big, climactic leaps.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 31, 2012

Ryan Casey and Lorraine Chapman: looking up, looking back

Lexington native Ryan P. Casey makes audiences look way, way up: at 6' 9", this fresh-faced 21-year-old senior at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study has already appeared on So You Think You Can Dance , and performed with tap innovator Michelle Dorrance.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 31, 2012