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    THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Dwight Rhoden about "Black Is Beautiful"in SNATCHED BACK from the EDGES
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 23
    • 1 min

    THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Dwight Rhoden about "Black Is Beautiful"in SNATCHED BACK from the EDGES

    Erin Bomboy for The Dance Enthusiast: Former founding Complexions member Christina Johnson memorably describes dancing for the company in...
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    SOCIAL DISTANCE DANCE VIDEO: David Fernandez's "Winston Churchill's Boy" with Christopher Grant
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 23
    • 1 min

    SOCIAL DISTANCE DANCE VIDEO: David Fernandez's "Winston Churchill's Boy" with Christopher Grant

    Erin Bomboy for The Dance Enthusiast: Benjamin Clementine’s song of the same name that accompanies the film opens with the lyrics, “Never...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Ishmael Houston-Jones on His Favorite Post-show Meal + How He Starts His Curation
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 11
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Ishmael Houston-Jones on His Favorite Post-show Meal + How He Starts His Curation

    After all these years, one thing I still love about New York is this: ___________. Ishmael Houston-Jones: I’ve never had a driver’s licen...
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    EMBODIED LIFE: Carissa Landes on Transitioning from a Dancer to a Moscow-based Consular Fellow
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 11
    • 1 min

    EMBODIED LIFE: Carissa Landes on Transitioning from a Dancer to a Moscow-based Consular Fellow

    Carissa Landes has a strong command of the future tense. She knows where she is in present space and time but can also visualize where sh...
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    IMPRESSIONS: La MaMa Moves! Online, Featuring Kevin Augustine and Tamar Rogoff with Mei Yamanaka
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 8
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: La MaMa Moves! Online, Featuring Kevin Augustine and Tamar Rogoff with Mei Yamanaka

    For all our griping about the pandemic, and there’s been plenty, when you step back, we’re lucky it happened in 2020, rather than, say, 2...
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    IMPRESSIONS: A.I.M, Kyle Abraham, JLin, and Giles Deacon in an Untitled Commission
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jan 19
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: A.I.M, Kyle Abraham, JLin, and Giles Deacon in an Untitled Commission

    The opening is startling, almost overwhelming. As strident snippets of symphonic music echo, Keerati Jinakunwiphat arches backward. The c...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Molissa Fenley on Contributing to World Peace and Picking Haruki Murakami's Brain
    Erin Bomboy
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Molissa Fenley on Contributing to World Peace and Picking Haruki Murakami's Brain

    After choreographing 85-plus pieces, I still find inspiration in ___________. Molissa Fenley: walking in to the studio, or actually reall...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Daniel Gwirtzman on Maintaining a Company for 20+ Years, Optimism as a Choice & More
    Erin Bomboy
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Daniel Gwirtzman on Maintaining a Company for 20+ Years, Optimism as a Choice & More

    My motto is ___________. "if you can’t see the glass is half-full, try new lenses.” I make an assumption that optimism is a choice, that ...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Jacqulyn Buglisi on William Blake, "Table of Silence Project 9/11," & Martha Graham
    Erin Bomboy
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Jacqulyn Buglisi on William Blake, "Table of Silence Project 9/11," & Martha Graham

    A piece of music I’ve always wanted to choreograph to ___________. is “Strawberries Fields Forever” because it would be wonderful to danc...
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    EMBODIED LIFE: Lenora Shea Hsu on Transitioning from Ballroom Dancer to Real Estate Agent
    Erin Bomboy
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    EMBODIED LIFE: Lenora Shea Hsu on Transitioning from Ballroom Dancer to Real Estate Agent

    Dancers know their bodies better than anyone. For former ballroom dancer Lenora "Shea" Hsu, that relationship extends beyond the mastery ...
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    EMBODIED LIFE: Stanton Jacinto on Transitioning from Dancer to Social Worker and the Role Improvisat
    Erin Bomboy
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    EMBODIED LIFE: Stanton Jacinto on Transitioning from Dancer to Social Worker and the Role Improvisat

    Communication and building relationships are ongoing leitmotifs in Stanton Jacinto’s life. They’ve held fast from when he was a budding d...
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    MOVING PEOPLE: Chelsea Ainsworth on Producing Shows, Finding Connection, and "Singin' in the Rain"
    Erin Bomboy
    • Sep 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    MOVING PEOPLE: Chelsea Ainsworth on Producing Shows, Finding Connection, and "Singin' in the Rain"

    If you were trapped on a deserted island and could choose one performance to watch for the rest of your life, what would it be? Why? Hard...
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    IMPRESSIONS: Martha Graham Dance Company & Wild Up in the Premiere of "Immediate Tragedy"
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jul 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Martha Graham Dance Company & Wild Up in the Premiere of "Immediate Tragedy"

    It was not the best of times. Fascism was on the rise, unemployment was rampant, racism was widespread, and an iconoclastic American figu...
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    IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela’s “through the mirror of their eyes” at New York Live Arts
    Erin Bomboy
    • Mar 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela’s “through the mirror of their eyes” at New York Live Arts

    For fifty minutes, the future intertwines with the present, and we’re all the better for it.
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    IMPRESSIONS: Catherine Gaudet’s “The Fading of the Marvelous (L’affadissement du merveilleux)”
    Erin Bomboy
    • Mar 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Catherine Gaudet’s “The Fading of the Marvelous (L’affadissement du merveilleux)”

    The walking sequence is simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
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    IMPRESSIONS: Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance’s “Plexus: a work in knots” at John Jay College
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance’s “Plexus: a work in knots” at John Jay College

    Although plexus derives from the Latin word for braid, what it really looks like is a lacy web. These branching networks of nerves and ve...
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    IMPRESSIONS: PROTOTYPE's “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro” by Vuyani Dance Theatre
    Erin Bomboy
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: PROTOTYPE's “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro” by Vuyani Dance Theatre

    It may be one of the most hummable pieces in the Western canon. Set in C major, ¾ time, and thumping with a relentless ostinato rhythm, M...
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    IMPRESSIONS: Thomas L. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE’s “Soundz in the Back of My Head” at Gibney
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Thomas L. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE’s “Soundz in the Back of My Head” at Gibney

    Approximately three-quarters of the way through his Soundz at the Back of My Head, Thomas L. DeFrantz makes a distinction between listening
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    IMPRESSIONS: E/D’s “amplifying the nothing” at Triskelion Arts
    Erin Bomboy
    • Jan 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: E/D’s “amplifying the nothing” at Triskelion Arts

    amplifying the nothing is a work of remarkable efficiency
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    IMPRESSIONS: Dimitris Papaioannou’s “The Great Tamer” at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
    Erin Bomboy
    • Nov 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    IMPRESSIONS: Dimitris Papaioannou’s “The Great Tamer” at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

    Dimitris Papaioannou has death on his mind. The last image in The Great Tamer, which made its New York premiere at BAM, buries itself int...
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