Author: Sophie Myrtil-McCourty
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Streaming this week: Watch an Evening of Selected Works by Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group presented by the Bates Dance Festival
Click here to view the program (available until August 24, 2020). Photo: Courtesy of the Bates Dance Festival
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‘CONTRA-TIEMPO founder brings Austin joy through virtual family dance class’
Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin is presenting CONTRA-TIEMPO’s Dancing Familias workshop on Saturday, Aug 22 at 10am CST. RSVP before Aug 21 at: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcO2qrzosGNO7SRZCq60hQS_EkCL5B_Lt “dance is our connection to ourselves. We all have bodies. We all have a connection to our bodies. It’s easy to be still all day. ……
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Dance Magazine/CONTRA-TIEMPO : ‘The challenges of parenting while dancing while going through a pandemic’
‘”Mothering is critical, essential work that often gets invisibilized, leaving working mamas feeling exhausted and alone,” Ana Maria Alvarez says. She continues to offer Dancing Familias, a family-friendly virtual class on Wednesdays, and on Tuesdays she hosts “A Place at the Table” on Instagram Live, where she chats with a fellow “mama artivist” each week…
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Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival Presents Bereishit Dance Company
Free and premiering Thursday, August 13 at 7pm EST and available for viewing until 11.59pm on Saturday, August 15 – RSVP at https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/bereishit-dance-company-2020/
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Document Journal/Interview: ‘Choreographer Kyle Abraham, actor Jeremy Pope, and artist Louis Fratino on what it means to be a man today’
‘No performance should look and feel the exact same way every time because part of the performance comes from the audience, and the audience is different every night. A moment that might have seemed comedic to one audience may seem offensive to another, or maybe cerebral to a different group. So you can’t perform anticipating…
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Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival to present Bereishit Dance Company
Premiere on Wednesday, August 13 at 7pm EST and available for viewing until Saturday, August 15 (midnight EST). ‘This Virtual Festival stream features the rigorous male duet BOW_CONTROL, inspired by the tradition of archery and explores the boundaries of sports and dance, while the intensely physical work Balance and Imbalance features brilliant and fun interplay…
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Dance Review: ‘Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group — Powerful Gifts’
‘I was swept away by the force of the rhythms and the fervent dancing.’ Read the full review here.
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Arts Fuse: ‘Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully’
‘These stand-offs evolved into a succession of beautiful partnering sequences that were completed with enormous precision and speed. The dancers made their challenging movements look effortless: bodies flipped over the backs of other bodies, men were tossed and caught after flying unaided through the air. The performers’ strength and grace was amazing.’ ‘The ensemble work…