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Stuck-togetherness

Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance
Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater performed three seriously zany works Thursday night under the title "Being Together," in their third appearance for Concord Academy Summer Stages Dance.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 21, 2009

Extremities

Postmodern dance takes flight
Postmodern dance's conceptual, physical, and metaphysical roots spread far and wide, as four summer festival performances attested last week.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 15, 2009

Dancing in a new direction

Notes from 'Ballets Russes 2009'
The 100th birthday of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes prompted the expected centennial tributes in Boston: a "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1909–1929: Twenty Years That Changed the World of Art" symposium and exhibition at Harvard University in April, and a "Ballets Russes 2009" festival this month.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | January 14, 2010

Blood, bone, and mirrors

Prometheus at the ICA
At the beginning of Between Blood & Bone , a man and a woman stand at opposite sides of an empty space. A few minutes or a lifetime later, they're curled together on the floor, wrapped in the tightest possible embrace.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 19, 2009

Slideshow: Ballets Russes at the Wang

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration
Boston Ballet performs "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Centennial Celebration" at the Wang Theater

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | May 15, 2009

Setting the Wang on fire

Boston Ballet's 'Ballets Russes'
Burning down the house” is a metaphor, but at the Wang Theatre last weekend, the Boston Fire Department was on hand to ensure that it remained one.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 20, 2009

Dark night of the soul

Boris Eifman's Eugene Onegin
St. Petersburg's Eifman Ballet presents Eugene Onegin at the Cutler Majestic Theatre this weekend.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 08, 2009

Golden years

Alvin Ailey at the Opera House
The last thing I had in mind when I went to the Opera House Tuesday was raining on Alvin Ailey's parade — particularly since the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which he founded in 1959, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year while making its 41st annual Celebrity Series appearance in Boston.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | May 06, 2009

Cyberloops

'Merce' at MIT
Merce Cunningham has used computers as co-creators for his choreography since 1991, and it was his evolving dance Loops that inspired the six works shown Friday night at the MIT Museum to open the sixth Boston Cyberarts Festival.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 29, 2009

The real deal

Boston Ballet's Sleeping Beauty
Nineteenth-century ballets are not all alike. But Boston Ballet's Sleeping Beauty is the real McCoy.

By: BY MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 29, 2009

Brava Larissa!

Boston Ballet opens The Sleeping Beauty
The end of an era loomed last night as Boston Ballet opened The Sleeping Beauty — what's likely to be the last story ballet ever to be staged at the Wang Theatre.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | April 29, 2009

Long-lasting launch pad

Ballets Russes week at Harvard
Of the nearly 70 ballets that made up the repertory of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, only a few inhabit our stages today. But the Diaghilev adventure still inspires legions of choreographers, antiquarians, archivists, scholars, and gossips.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 21, 2009

Boston's Best Arts and Entertainment 2009

What a difference 100 years makes
We are a culture-rich city — a veritable cauldron of talent and fun, and have been so since Anne Bradstreet inscribed the gates of Harvard. In Boston, the arts never stand still.

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | April 16, 2009

Slideshow: Chunky Move at ICA

Chunky Move performs I Want to Dance Better at Parties at the Institute of Contemporary Art, March 27, 2009
The Australian troupe Chunky Move performed its 2004 work I Want to Dance Better at Parties at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art from March 27 to 29.

By: GREG COOK | April 01, 2009

Note shapes

Mark Morris at the Majestic
When the Celebrity Series announced that the Mark Morris Dance Group would do three older pieces for its annual Boston appearance, we got a chance to revisit works we haven't seen in a while.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 24, 2009

Sticks and bones

Kelley Donovan at the Dance Complex, Joe Goode at Northeastern
Kelley Donovan's Borrowed Bones at the Dance Complex last weekend featured Donovan and nine accomplices in 40 minutes of intense dancing.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 20, 2009

Diaghilev days

The Ballets Russes come to town
The Ballets Russes come to town

By: DEBRA CASH | March 19, 2009

Ascending elegies

Meredith Monk at the Guggenheim in New York City
As we made our way up the ramps of the Guggenheim during the second part of Meredith Monk's Ascension Variations , we encountered a man in red curled up on his side on the floor, cradling a Jew's harp against his teeth.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 11, 2009