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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

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

Matthew Guerrieri on duh duh duh DUM

In The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination (Knopf), Matthew Guerrieri, music critic for the Boston Globe , calls the iconic duh duh duh DUM opening "short enough to remember and portentous enough to be memorable."

By: DEBRA CASH | December 05, 2012

Interview: Chet Walker Revisits Bob Fosse's 'Pippin'

Magic To Do
Michael Jackson didn't invent the moonwalk. Bob Fosse did.

By: DEBRA CASH | November 21, 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

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

Heavenly creatures

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Apsara are the heavenly dancers of Khmer mythology, the shape-changing nymphs whose bas-relief images have adorned the walls of the temple of Angkor Wat since the 12th century.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 25, 2012

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Lar Lubovitch dance company at the Citi Shubert Theatre

Originally a visual artist, choreographer Lar Lubovitch "paints the music in space" so that the stage acts as a vibrant canvas and his ensemble often coheres in a single robust or mesmerizing gesture.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 17, 2012

Talking to Sherman Alexie

The people who made Spokane Indian writer Sherman Alexie's semi-autobiographical The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian the second-most censored book of 2010 didn't realize they were doing him a favor, he told us.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 09, 2012

Sequence 8: Out of the Box

When acrobat Colin Davis appears at the beginning of Sequence 8 in the role of a suit-and-tie-wearing radio announcer, a kind of Ira-without-Glasses, he is introducing acrobatics with a meta-narrative.

By: DEBRA CASH | October 02, 2012

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A Glimpse Beyond: Cemetery Gaits

Two newcomers enter the paradisiacal garden that will be their final resting place.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 20, 2012

Ten dance shows for fall

Shooting hoops
Young powerhouse dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham brings his company to Boston in its area debut.

By: DEBRA CASH | September 19, 2012

Interview: Karole Armitage dances with Marie Antoinette

Post-revolutionary
Karole Armitage jettisoned her sobriquet as the "punk ballerina" years ago, but the Tony-nominated former Merce Cunningham dancer continues her edgy choreographic foray with her contributions to the upcoming world premiere of playwright David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette, a coproduction of the American Repertory Theater and the Yale Repertory Theatre.

By: DEBRA CASH | August 31, 2012