CHRIS ELAM/MISNOMER DANCE THEATER: BEING TOGETHER By Chelsey Philpot Misnomer Dance Theater dancers bend in ways human bodies are not meant to bend. At times they even painful to watch. Dancers flip their arms behind their heads as if both…

ARMITAGE GONE! LIGETI ESSAYS, THE WATTEAU DUETS AND EXCERPT FROM MASHUP By Chelsey Philpot Even under the exposing bright lights of the Concord Academy Performing Arts Center Armitage Gone! Dance managed to conceal the efforts of their movements. On Thursday,…

ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE @ THE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE By Chelsey Philpot On Tuesday, April 28th the Celebrity Series of Boston once again brought the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe up from their New York City base. The seats at…

GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Chelsey Philpot The prologue to the Friday, April 24th performance of “GIMP” at the ICA began outside on the museum’s gymnasium-sized wooden deck overlooking Boston Harbor. There the audience waited sipping wine, enjoying…

CHUNKY MOVE @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot In the question and answer session that followed the Australian-based dance troupe Chunky Move’s performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), artistic director Gideon Obarzanek further charmed an admiring audience. He…

MARK MORRIS @ CUTLER MAJESTIC By Chelsey Philpot Mark Morris dancers make it look so easy. From the flick of a wrist to the simultaneous jumps and right down to the curling and uncurling of toes, the Mark Morris Dance…

NATURE THEATER @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Do not go see Nature Theater of Oklahoma expecting to see a performance about trees. In fact, do not go to one of their shows anticipating a night of pure dance, theater…

PHILADANCO @ THE ICA By Chelsey Philpot Financial down-turns throughout history have shown that even in a tough economy people do not stop going to movies. Why shell out twelve bucks for a blockbuster? Why pay too much for butter-soaked…

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE CO: ANOTHER EVENING: SERENADE/THE PROPOSITION By Chelsey Philpot February 2009 will mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Celebratory volumes singing the sixteenth president’s praises — new biographies, Civil War history hard covers, and children’s…

MODERN DAY SAINT-GAUDENS: LAWRENCE J. NOWLAN By Chelsey Philpot “A Sculptor’s work endures so long that it is next to a crime for him to neglect to do everything that lies in his power to execute a result that will not…