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Blue Lapis Light’s Belonging, Part One
The work’s dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy
Jonelle Seitz
Jonelle Seitz writes about dance and performance.
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Aztlan Dance Company’s The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep Fried
In the troupe’s latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied
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Hunting the Golden State Killer in I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
How Michelle McNamara tracked a killer before her untimely death
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Gold n’ George’s For a Limited Time Only
In this lighthearted show, Natalie George, Heloise Gold, and their collaborators reacted to current events by exploring, inventing, playing
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Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Company
In this short works program, the troupe explored the solace and thrills in the company you keep
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Performa / Dance’s Artist and Muse
This program of four pensive and sensitive works explored physical and emotional distress and pain in great depth
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Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest
This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism
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Fusebox Festival Review: Water and Tears
A butoh-inspired dance for two bodies existing as one
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Fusebox Festival Review: Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here
Are we all just doing a dance in a box?
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Ballet Austin’s Masters of Dance
This triple bill of abstract works was a tribute to the piano and its range, excellently performed
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A’lante Flamenco’s Juana: First (I) Dream
The dramas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz were perfectly expressed through the language of flamenco
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Jonelle Seitz’s Top 10 Thrills (No Frills) in Dance of 2017
A thread of starkness and clarity ran through the year’s most memorable movement