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• Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society - New York Times

  20-09-2015 23:46 via
  New York Times
  Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society
  New York Times
  For a dancegoer in New York, fall can feel like an onrush of the new, of premieres and untested experiments, by turns exciting and overwhelming. In the midst of all that, it was refreshing to spend time with something ancient on Friday, when the Japan ...
  

• Review: 'Whistleblower,' a Dance-Theater Take On Chelsea Manning - New York Times

  20-09-2015 23:37 via
  New York Times
  Review: 'Whistleblower,' a Dance-Theater Take On Chelsea Manning
  New York Times
  When the Army private Chelsea Manning, known at the time as Bradley Manning, leaked more than 700,000 sensitive documents, the possibility of a trial and sentence in a military prison may have been foreseeable. Less easy to predict was that the private ...
  

• Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch review – a new era begins with energy and laughter

  20-09-2015 18:12
  
  Wuppertal Opera House
  Six years after its founder’s death, the Bausch company finally opens up to outside choreographers, and makes some brave departures of styleThere’s a palpable sense of curiosity at Wuppertal as the lights dim for the premiere of the Bausch company’s latest show. The nine dancers who enter the stage are instantly recognisable, some of them veteran company members. But in contrast to the elaborate sets and elegant evening wear in which they’re usually
  
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• 35 Amici Drive review – ambitious spectacle from an unsung hero

  20-09-2015 09:00
  
  Lyric Hammersmith, LondonResidents of a towerblock fight developers in Wolfgang Stange’s latest, as he continues to explore the lives of people marginalised by differenceIn 1980, a young choreographer named Wolfgang Stange founded Amici, a pioneering London-based company for able-bodied and disabled performers. No one, said Stange, is too young, too old, or too physically impaired to dance. Thirty-five years later Stange’s productions, which have something of the surreal wit and dark
  
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