This is a seasoned company that dances with maturity and intent.
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CONVERGENCE (DanceSpora): 2016 Fringe review 91
The Trenton-based dance company DanceSpora premiered two works at the Fringe Festival.
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PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER (nora chipaumire): 2016 Fringe review 90
How do you become a man? A black man? A black African man?
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LE CARGO (Faustin Linyekula) 2016 Fringe review 89
“I am simply here to dance,” says Faustin Linyekula.
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MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION (Lantern): Thought-provoking amusement
In a Philadelphia theater season with an auspicious beginning, this production of MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION might be the most auspicious of all.
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Shakespeare Fringe Roundup: Misadventures among the classics
Toby Zinman gives bullet reviews of nine Shakespeare-ish shows in this year’s Fringe.
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KING JOHN (Revolution Shakespeare): 2016 Fringe review 88
You won’t get many opportunities to see KING JOHN; you’re unlikely to see one as well-rendered as Revolution Shakespeare’s.
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THE GAS HEART (Once More Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 87
Tristan Tzara called his play THE GAS HEART “the greatest three-act hoax of the century.”
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RHIZOMAS (Ryuzo Fukuhara): 2016 Fringe review 86
Improvisation is an enticing, yet dangerous, approach to performing.
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WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85
WITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.
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FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84
Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…
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JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83
We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.
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STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of Chekhov
Aaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.
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WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82
An autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.
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SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81
Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show
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THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80
THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships
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PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79
the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to
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HABITUS (Ann Hamilton): 2016 Fringe review 78
Colossal curtains beautifully billowing with the breeze, are hanging around, literally, throughout the vast Municipal Pier 9 facility
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OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77
It’s “like Hamlet”, with all the key plot points, “only scrambled” in a light-hearted Commedia dell’arte of masks, jokes, music, and puppets.
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BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76
The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.
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