By Kaija Pepper Dance criticism can be many things: a celebration, a documentation, an examination, an evaluation, boring, fun to read, biased, generous, too much like PR, with too much description, with too little description … the possibilities and pitfalls are endless. In Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity, recently published by the University
By Ashley Killar When Australian Ballet revived John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet at the end of last year, it looked fresh as paint, though it was 20 years since they had last danced the ballet. I saw the December 1 performance in Sydney — and the next morning realized that December 2 was the 60th
By Kristen Lawson Josephine Baker: singer, dancer, actor… spy? The American star is best known for headlining the Folies Bergère in the Roaring Twenties and walking her pet cheetah through the streets of Paris on a diamond collar. It seems impossible for someone so recognizable to carry out covert operations, yet that is exactly what