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MARCIA B. SIEGEL

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Pinto and Pollak bring Oyster to the Paramount

Carnival of Waifs
All the characters in Oyster, the Israeli show presented by Celebrity Series last weekend at the Paramount, are physically challenged in some way.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  February 07, 2012
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Monica Bill Barnes at the ICA

Somewhere over the top
When the audience entered the theater at the ICA on Friday night, we saw a wooden table and chairs, set up for a simple meal — possibly breakfast.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  January 24, 2012
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Wim Wenders films Pina Bausch

Their saintly boss
Wim Wenders's Pina memorializes the late choreographer Pina Bausch with reverential tributes from her past and present dancers and excerpts from four of her works.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  January 18, 2012
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A whirlwind year of dance

From Fela! to Merce
Here's a look at highlights from my year of dance viewing.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  December 20, 2011
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Merce Cunningham's long goodbye

Last looks
Expiring dance companies either implode from suppressed internal troubles, or they just peter out quietly.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  December 14, 2011
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'New' dance — then and now — gets a full airing on Boston's stages, and on film

Cool moves
November brought a dense cluster of dance events to galvanize our thinking about how dancers have re-imagined their craft and challenged their audiences over the past few decades.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  December 06, 2011
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Boston Ballet brings back John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet

Return of the star-cross'd
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has probably inspired as many ballet translations as The Rite of Spring .
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  November 08, 2011
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Gallim Dance's Blush

Sex wars
You don't want to take the title of Gallim Dance's Blush too seriously — at least not if you're expecting embarrassment, shame, modesty, confusion, those textbook signifiers of someone who'd like to creep away and hide.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  October 25, 2011
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A Beatle gets a ballet

Oceanic love
The synopsis for the new Peter Martins/Paul McCartney ballet Ocean's Kingdom reads like a pastiche of 19th and early-20th-century plots.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  September 27, 2011
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A postmodern dance lineage sings

Forest forays
Brown's newest work, Les Yeux et l'âme , is a suite of dances from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Pygmalion , which Brown directed in Europe last year.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  August 23, 2011
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Jonah Bokaer takes chances

Charting chaos
Bokaer didn't provide any grandiose program notes or play up the profound implications in his dances, but by the end of the performance we'd seen small transformations and beautiful visions, and even confronted big questions about control and randomness, civilization and nature.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  August 09, 2011
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Developing dances at the ICA

Summer summary
Summer Stages Dance wrapped its 14th season Saturday afternoon at the Institute of Contemporary Art with a presentation by four choreographers who've been working with the students at Concord Academy through July.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  August 02, 2011
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Kidd Pivot's Dark Matters at Jacob's Pillow

Puppets and masters
The two-act drama, performed last week at Jacob's Pillow, blends the conventions of Japanese puppetry and Kabuki, movie animation, shadowplay, and contemporary dance into a spectacle of porous identities.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  July 12, 2011
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West Side Story does it all

A classic refinished
The touring production now at the Colonial Theater (through July 9) suits a modern audience without extinguishing the show's greatest assets.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 24, 2011
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Dawn Kramer's 'Body of Water'

Haiku in motion
Dawn Kramer's dance-and-video concert, "Body of Water," last weekend at Mass College of Art, ended with haiku projected on the walls of the performance space. It was almost too much.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 09, 2011
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Tudor, Millepied, Ratmansky, and Wheeldon at ABT

Expanding the envelope
NEW YORK — American Ballet Theatre devoted only four performances of its two-month spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House to a mixed bill of short ballets.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  June 06, 2011
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Brian Crabtree's unified fragments

Stanzas
The 10 dance fragments looked like a close-knit family with a couple of fractious siblings.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 25, 2011
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Boston Ballet's 'Balanchine/Robbins,' plus a soupçon of tap

The pleasures of craft
Boston Ballet is ending the season with four prime examples of ballet choreography, displaying not only the rigors of classical technique but the different kinds of images technique can be crafted to evoke.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 19, 2011
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Nell Breyer and Lostwax dance the unconscious

Dream games
Two offerings by Boston Cyberarts over the weekend opted for divergent ways of gaining enlightenment.  
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 12, 2011
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The meaning of 'THE'

Boston Ballet's 'Bella Figura'
William Forsythe's 1991 ballet The Second Detail begins with 13 dancers in ice-blue leotards and tights, facing away from the audience.
By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  May 09, 2011
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[ 02/14 ]   Peter Frampton  @ Zeiterion Theatre
[ 02/14 ]   "Dana Levin: A Classical Realist In the 21st Century," an exhibit of paintings  @ Bert Gallery
[ 02/14 ]   Mary Poppins  @ Providence Performing Arts Center
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