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Killing the Choreography

Camille LeFevre reviews the latest incarnation in Morgan Thorson's "Still Life" series, this time made fo >

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An Exquisite Preeminence of the Body

In the Walker's expansive exhibition, "Merce Cunningham: Common Time," artistic disciplines effortlessly >

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Susannah Schouweiler

How to Watch the Sky

Though all of Christopher Baker's latest installations rely on clever use of new technologies, there’s something ol >

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Bluebeard Meets Ibsen in a Gilded Age Mansion

Camille LeFevre reviews Combustible Company's campy, absorbing production, "Bluebeard's Dollhouse," >

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Botanical Facts and Fictions

Artists blend, twist, and re-envision elements of "nature that transfixes" in a sprawling indoor/outdoor exhib >

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Wrath and Ruin (With Singing)

The Mill City Museum's historic Ruin Courtyard makes a surprisingly fitting setting for this rendition of the gleef >

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Hmong-Lao/Lao-Hmong Friendship: It's Complicated

Perchance to Dream

For all its media-rich elements, there's an air of the ancient, an uncanny, old-as-time tension between dreaming an >

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Nekessa Julia Opoti

Playwrights May Lee-Yang and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay defy deeply entrenched inter-community divides and glib cult >

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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Camille LeFevre on the ways ballet is going mainstream, from Starz network's new show, "Flesh and Bone," >

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Putting the Buzzwords of Engagement Into Motion

Game On

Camille LeFevre reviews Sarah Michelson's recent world premiere at the Walker, "tournamento," a game-in-d >

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Emily Gastineau

Emily Gastineau unpacks the ways BodyCartography Project is using real dance skills of sensing, paying attention, and ex >

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Susannah Schouweiler

Private Dance in Public Space

Susannah Schouweiler reports back from her discombobulating, one-on-one performance of "closer" by BodyCartogr >

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Sheila Dickinson

Object Lessons

Sheila Dickinson reviews the latest by lesser mortals, "Art (Like It Matters)," at the Weisman Art Museum for >

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Mary Coyne

Dancing the Brave New World

Curator and writer Mary Coyne reviews the new works featured in this year's Momentum showcase, by Luke Olson-Elm, H >

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Emily Gastineau

Digging Up the Ghosts of Modern Dance

Emily Gastineau reviews "Appalachian Spring Break," the latest from choreographer Scott Heron, which revives ( >

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"Still Life" Moving

Camille LeFevre reviews Morgan Thorson's new "endurance-based dance work," happening in the Weisman Art M >

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Veronica Kavass

Tell It Slant

The elegant decay of both the setting and characters in Flannery O'Connor's novel, Wise Blood, provide an idea >

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Wunderkammer Redux (Or, An Unnatural History)

Martha Graham Revisited

Camille LeFevre on the raw violence and emotional candor of Martha Graham's dance, on view in the repertory and new >

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Christina Schmid

In the most elegant possible way, Kate Casanova's work across media sets out to make our habits of perceiving the b >

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Aaron Marx

Art That Moves

Artist Aaron Marx offers a dispatch from the first in a series of juried exhibitions planned by Make It Move, a new Minn >

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More Than Skin Deep

Shá Cage's now nationally touring, one-woman show, "U/G/L/Y," fearlessly takes on the thorny issues of bo >

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Not the SAMO

Off-Leash Area's recent piece for their tiny garage stage, an homage to the life and art of Jean Michel Basquiat, i >

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"Beaverdance" Returns to Bedlam

The irreverent "Marxist Fur Trade Holiday Musical" has been revived with a new cast, sharp direction, a snappi >

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A Future Past

"Relics" is a play taking stock of the present day through the lens of a post-apocalyptic future, a natural hi >

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Call Me Little Boy

A new one-man show by Hiroshima-native Masanari Kawahara unpacks the relationship between Little Boy, the atom bomb drop >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Labyrinth" by Vox Medusa

Reviewed: a stylized, often puzzling dance interpretation of the Ariadne/Minotaur myths directed by Kristen Freya of Vox >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Fifth Planet" by Joking Apart Theater

In this show, directed by Jean Wolff, performers offer an effective iteration of playwright David Auburn's ("P >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "#RelationshipStatus" by Someday, Wine Productions

Reviewed: A show featuring lightly comedic vignettes featuring Minnesota couples in the aftermath of the Marriage Equali >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Captain Do-Good Saves the Future from Wal-mart"

Our reviewer says, despite the title, this isn't really hard-hitting satire. >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Tough Love" by Cathy Wright

Our reviewers are on the scene at the 2014 Fringe Festival, covering a sampling of the shows on offer this year. >

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American Dance Festival: What's Love Got to Do With It?

Lightsey Darst continues her dispatches from the 2014 American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, this time on Ishmael Housto >

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On a Distant "Shore"

Emily Johnson/Catalyst wrapped up her ambitious trilogy of dance works with "Shore," premiered recently Northr >

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A Most Eloquent Dance

Ragamala Dance's collaboration with saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa is the company's most sensual >

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FRINGE SHORTS: Buckets and Tap Shows (excerpts from "DREAMS")

Buckets and Tap Shoes is a Fringe favorite for good reason. >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Professor Hotrail and the Travelling Meth Lab" by MTBL

Brought to you by the same people who staged ROBOT LINCOLN at the 2011 Fringe, this show is tighter, more polished and f >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Non Edwards' Bob Fosse Makeover"

There's nothing new here. >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Sacajawea and the Average Joes" by T.F.L. Theatre Company

Our critic says, unlike the carefully crafted shock humor of Monty Python or SNL from which this sketch comedy work take >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "The Unknown Matters" by Broken Boot Theatre

Isn't the promise of space exploration exciting enough, and the implications of the existence of dark matter thrill >

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FRINGE SHORTS: "Analog" by Katharine Hawthorne

Hawthornes created an intriguing (and too long, by half) complex dance work that eschews 21st-century obsessionswith t >

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Kim Surkan

Whose Story Is This?: "Born in Iraq"

Kim Surkan reviews "Born in Iraq," by Earth Speak Theater (at the Mixed Blood Theater through July 15, shows a >

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'Here & After' and 'Slippery Fish': the week in local dance

Lightsey Darst saw Time Track Productions' recent "Here and After," with choreography by Paula Mann, medi >

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From Skin to Desire: the week in dance

Lightsey Darst offers dispatches from two shows, the seductive and provocative "Dim All the Lights" at the BLB >

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