Category: Review/Response

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…

Photo: Cheshire Isaacs Lili Weckler | Unhinge rocks the Earth with mixed results By Garth Grimball Minimalism is a privilege. This is the creed of maximalist artist and Macarthur “genius” Taylor Mac, whose genre-blurring, activism-cum-cabaret acts use spectacle as a means to communicate urgency. Minimalism allows time to process and reflect. Maximalism demands action. SiStars…