Dance Review: In and Out of Focus, Molly Shanahan/ Mad Shak, My Name is a Blackbird

My Name is a Blackbird is a piece questioning identity, form and mutation. At the start, the full title is projected on the wall. Later it returns as just My Name is…, suggesting that the blank is a variable, reminding us that the idea of self is constantly changing. In this 50-minute improvisation, or “spontaneous […]

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Dance Review: 1, 2, 3, 4, — Go Beowulf!

Beowulf: “This is how tough I am: 1, 2, 3, 4” – break into campy rock and roll. Take tights, song, severed limbs, mix together and you have Banana Bag and Bodice’s Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage presented by Shotgun Players at the Abrons Arts Center.   Lights up:  three academics descend into the […]

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