Category: Review/Response

Left to right: Hope Mohr, Nicole Peisl, and Rashaun Mitchell. Photo by Hillary Goidell. A Bridge to Cunningham in Six Quotations By Garth Grimball   I like poems to be poetic and prose to be prosaic, religion to be prophetic and philosophy to be crystal clear. Edmund White This year marks the centennial of Merce…

Borders, Spaces and Brown Eyes Davalos Dance Company October 5, 2019 Shawl-Anderson Dance Center By Bhumi B. Patel I have brown eyes and am taller than the average Gujurati woman. My relationship to brown is knowing it to be the way I was born, like my mother, and her mother. And that feels acutely relevant…

Aiano Nakagawa. Photo by Lydia Daniller. In Review: Queering Dance Festival, Program A By Todd Courage Frolic, the 1st annual Queering Dance Festival, conceived of and presented by Shawl-Anderson Dance Center’s ever-expanding support of dance everywhere and for all people, kicked off at the Waterfront Playhouse on Thursday, September 19th and ran through the 22nd.…

Snowflake Towers. Photo by Lydia Daniller. Queering Dance Festival – A Verb of One’s Own By Garth Grimball   Smear the Queer.  Queer as a Three Dollar Bill.  Queer as Folk.  We’re Here, We’re Queer, Don’t F*ck With Us, We’re Fabulous! For many of us “queer” was what not to be. It was threatening, exposing,…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: It has been a wonderful experiment throughout the past year, diving into dance criticism and reflection on this blog platform. What are the various new angles and approaches to writing about performances – before, during, and after? We are exploring this with artists, audience members, and writers alike. This week…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: It has been a wonderful experiment throughout the past year, diving into dance criticism and reflection on this blog platform. What are the various new angles and approaches to writing about performances – before, during, and after? We are exploring this with artists, audience members, and writers alike. This week…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: It has been a wonderful experiment throughout the past year, diving into dance criticism and reflection on this blog platform. What are the various new angles and approaches to writing about performances – before, during, and after? We are exploring this with artists, audience members, and writers alike. This week…

From Blog Director Jill Randall: It has been a wonderful experiment throughout the past year, diving into dance criticism and reflection on this blog platform. What are the various new angles and approaches to writing about performances – before, during, and after? We are exploring this with artists, audience members, and writers alike. This week…

Molly Heller; photo by Marissa Mooney Woodland Creatures, Summer Dance By Garth Grimball Remember when the “Song of Summer” wasn’t something to be predicted? The title wasn’t competed for, amalgamated from streaming metrics, to create a four-quadrant hit that could sustain the rapid-release-music-output era we now live in. Rather, as Summer faded into Fall, we…

Emily Hansel, Mallory Markham, Katie Meyers, and Jessie Egbert. Photo by Summer Wilson. Decisions, Decisions in BIG SALT By Garth Grimball “The doing is what seems hard. The having seems marvelous. But one doesn’t have a child, one does it.” So writes Sheila Heti in her autofiction novel Motherhood, dissecting the ambivalence and paralysis of choosing…