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Dd Response: Week 1 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
When asking the big questions like “Is there a God?” and… “What is contemporary ballet in 2013?” artists (and believers) are searching for a raison d’etre. The curators of Ballet v6.0—a contemporary...
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Dd Response: Vendetta Mathea & Co at the Downtown Dance Festival
Vendetta Mathea, an American transplant in Aurillac, France, shared an excerpt of her new work, Water Soul, at the Downtown Dance Festival last Sunday. Since I was born and raised in France, it was...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet & Lula Washington Dance Theater at the Ford...
It was difficult to talk any of my local friends into going with me to see Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Lula Washington Dance Theater perform last Saturday at the Ford Theater in Hollywood. Not...
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Dd Critical Conversation: BalletCollective at the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 Festival
Leah Gerstenlauer and Candice Thompson correspond to discuss BalletCollective, the fifth company featured in the Joyce Theater’s contemporary ballet festival Ballet v6.0. CT: First of all I totally...
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Dd Response: “I Have Lived a Thousand Years”
A copy of “I Have Lived a Thousand Years,” a Holocaust memoir by Dr. Livia Bitton-Jackson, sits on a bookshelf in my parent’s house in Michigan. Last Saturday, while there to teach and visit, I picked...
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Dd Response: Laguna Dance Festival
For almost a decade, The Laguna Dance Festival has been considered a gem in the Southern California dance scene. I discovered it a year ago, when I had just moved to the area from across the country,...
View ArticleDd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 6 of 20/20
Do you feel like the ballet world is less glamorous than it used to be? Today’s video linking ballet and fashion is for you: Are you a dance documentarian? What is your favorite dance video or short...
View ArticleDd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 9 of 20/20
Here at Dd a substantial part of our mission is bringing rigorous review to dance performances. We think our critics know best how to bring context to their own art form. We believe such thoughtful...
View ArticleDd Response: Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF
In San Francisco, excitement is building for Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet, a small and relatively new company with all the markings of professionalism. I attended their fourth annual home season...
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Dd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 20 of 20!
Happy National Dance Day! Here at Dd we have been anticipating this event–recognizing the importance and influence of our art form in and on the culture of our country–with a Video Countdown and the...
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