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From the Horse's Mouth at Jacob's Pillow and Two Alike at the ICA

Dancing the Y Chromosome
A lot has changed for American men dancers since Jacob's Pillow founder Ted Shawn felt he had to replace the sissified image of the ballet danseur with brawny "tillers of the fields."

By: DEBRA CASH | July 17, 2012

Vertigo at Jacob’s Pillow

Lofty
In 2005, graffiti artist Banksy stenciled the Palestinian side of the concrete separation barrier between Israel and Gaza with the dark silhouette of a little girl lofted upward by a bouquet of balloons.

By: DEBRA CASH | July 11, 2012

Dance events of summer 2012

Shake it up
Shake it up

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 06, 2012

Mark Morris's Socrates, The Muir, and Festival Dance

Mellow musings
Erik Satie called his vocal work Socrate a "symphonic drama," though it's anything but dramatic in a theatrical sense — or symphonic, either.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 22, 2012

Boston Ballet struts Robbins, Lander, and Martins

Free and fancy
It's almost enough to make you nostalgic for World War II.

By: DEBRA CASH | May 15, 2012

Photos: Boston Ballet's Fancy Free

Boston Opera House | May 10-20, 2012
Boston Ballet performs "Fancy Free" at the Opera House on May 10-20, 2012.

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | May 14, 2012

Joffrey Ballet gets its due

Number three
New York has two great ballet companies, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. Any other ballet troupe that wants to put down roots there has to develop a personality that's distinct from those two.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 08, 2012

The Boston Ballet’s Don Quixote

Old Don, old tricks
In the long string of ballet productions extracted from Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote, the delusional Don has become a minor character, charging into situations where he shouldn't go and causing trouble instead of good works.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 01, 2012

Interview: Chita Rivera can still bring it

Indomitable
She created the roles of Anita in West Side Story, Velma Kelly in Chicago, and Aurora in Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

By: DEBRA CASH | May 01, 2012

Alvin Ailey leaves us in a daze

Dance Dance Revelations
Anyone who has seen them — dance enthusiast or not — can tell you that Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a feverish love poem to the human body.

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | April 30, 2012

The Trey McIntyre Project ignites the ICA

Polished hi-jinks
When Trey McIntyre found a base for his infant company in Boise, Idaho, four years ago, eyebrows lifted in the dance world.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 21, 2012

Ballet Hispanico falls short

Dress-up
All three dances presented by Ballet Hispanico at the Cutler Majestic last weekend depended heavily on costume effects to convey their messages.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 13, 2012

Photos: Vamos al tiroteo at the Cutler Majestic Theatre

Rafaela Carrasco’s flamenco dance show Vamos al tiroteo at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, March 2-3, 2012
Rafaela Carrasco’s flamenco dance show Vamos al tiroteo at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, March 2-3, 2012.

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | March 07, 2012

Boston Ballet reignites Elo, Kylián, and Bruce

From ‘Sharp’ To ‘Sharper’; Boston Ballet's "Play With Fire"
Choreographers in America rarely get to rethink and revise their work.

By: DEBRA CASH | March 07, 2012

Flamenco at the Majestic, and a dash of Merce

Light spells
At the beginning of Vamos al tiroteo, the new flamenco show by Rafaela Carrasco, the darkened, silent theater is pierced by a strobe light, clacking castanets, and the scratchings of an old phonograph record.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 07, 2012

Photos: Boston Ballet's 'Play With Fire'

Boston Ballet's 'Play With Fire' at the Boston Opera House
Boston Ballet's 'Play With Fire' at the Boston Opera House

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | March 07, 2012

Cool moves

Home teams and visitors
The spring opens with strong programs from local dancemakers.

By: DEBRA CASH | February 28, 2012

Boston Conservatory's ''Triple Play'' flies

New spirits
Doug Varone's 2006 The Constant Shift of Pulse is a modern dance classic of recent vintage: fast, death-defying, and passionate about nothing but the movement.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | February 22, 2012

Photos: Boston Ballet's Les Sylphides

Boston Ballet performs at the Opera House
A Boston take on Michel Fokine's 1909 "ballet blanc"

By: ERIC ANTONIOU | February 15, 2012

Boston Ballet's 'Simply Sublime'

Road to the city
Boston Ballet's "Simply Sublime" (at the Opera House through February 19) traverses 20th-century ballet's arc from Russian romance to a robust and confident neoclassicism.

By: DEBRA CASH | February 15, 2012

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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