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Dance

Particularly Physical | Sydney Dance Co.

As I traveled by car on the way to the Schnitz, merging from HW-30 to I-405 in post-rush hour traffic, in the drivers seat, making my decision to merge right, cooperating with those merging left, we navigated at high speed yet slowing down in that moment. I brought up to my passenger this highway traffic […]

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Dance

Evolution of Influence: Lucy Guerin’s Weather

I remember when I first began to truly notice the clouds. My life found more meaning. It was a door into an awareness of the world around me. Suddenly my perception of what surrounded shifted into a realization that I am not a separate being, but that I am a part of all of this, […]

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Dance

Shattered Not Battered

Last night’s performance from Compagnie Maguy Marin at the Newmark Theatre was very welcomed. SALVES, the performance running for two more nights offers the viewer some mystifying stuff. All in all, it is impressive and I have no doubt that moments of it will burn on to my memory for a long while. Technically, it […]

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Dance

There is Power in the Ending | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Last night I went to see the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. There were three works. The first was Beautiful Mistake. It premiered in Aspen on July 6th, 2013. The second, Return To A Strange Land premiered on May 17, 1975.  The third, Square Non premiered on April 13th 2012. […]

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Arts Review Festival

T:BA 2013 Epilogue

I want to hearken back to Allison Hallet’s T:BA guide in The Portland Mercury where she says, “I like what it does to my brain.” And then I want to take that a step further. If you attend almost thirty different performances, talks, and exhibits as do I every year, you are schooling and evolving […]