Less than a week before Parsons Dance arrived for a weeklong engagement at the Ted Shawn Theatre as part of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I crossed the Massachusetts border from Berkshire County into New […]
I’ll admit that I had little awareness of Gina Gibney’s dance legacy, and I had never seen Gibney Company in performance, before the troupe’s weeklong engagement at the Henry J. Leir Stage at Jacob’s Pillow […]
My first encounter with the work of David Dorfman dates back to 1988 in Prospect Park, when he was part of a free performance series staged by Celebrate Brooklyn. (Coincidentally, he performed a day after […]
The selection of a venue where a new work of dance has its debut is always significant. In the case of I AM, choreographed by Camille A. Brown, which had its world premiere this week […]
It’s autumn on Beaver Island, Michigan, a summer place where the population shrinks after the tourists and weekenders have returned to their full-time homes. This is a time and place that resonates with those of […]
It can’t be easy to formulate the lineup of popular artists at Tanglewood. This esteemed music venue in the Berkshires is, after all, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and thus carries a […]
Given the chaotic state of our politics and world affairs in general, we all need a good laugh right about now. That’s exactly what Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is serving up with its […]
It was a sweltering, stormy, night in the Berkshires when the Pretenders blew into Lenox, Massachusetts, for the band’s debut performance at Tanglewood on July 16, near the start of the US tour supporting their […]
“It’s when dancing gets awkward that it starts to get interesting.” — Merce Cunningham Merce Cunningham and I go way back. To be clear, I never met him, but my mother introduced me to this […]
As readers of these reviews have gleaned, the history of dance in America is intertwined with the history of Jacob’s Pillow in tiny Becket, Massachusetts. Like many estimable international dance companies, Ballet du Grand Théâtre […]
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