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Julie Cunningham & Company: Crow/Pigeons review – a beady dance delight

Jules Cunningham explores themes of marginalisation in a masterful collaboration with Le Tigre’s JD Samson and a piece that echoes Merce Cunningham

The Guardian - UK

The week in dance: Lyon Opera Ballet: Cunningham Forever (Biped & Beach Birds); Giselle… – review

Lyon Opera Ballet perform alongside digital forms to the music of Gavin Bryars in a Merce Cunningham double bill. Plus, a new twist on Giselle

The Guardian - UK

Lyon Opera Ballet: Cunningham Forever review – a modern master’s wild ambition

Merce Cunningham’s demands on dancers are the stuff of legend, but as in the celebration of two of his classic works here, utterly essential

The Guardian - UK

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Steve Paxton obituary

A pivotal figure in contemporary dance, known for stripping the artform of its classical and modern techniques

The Guardian - UK

Les Noces – The Departure review: absorbingly renewed marriage bonds

On a catwalk-like stage, the ambitious New Movement Collective celebrate Stravinsky’s peasant wedding with a twist, adding fresh musical compositions to ramp up the atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in Chicago Oct. 19-25: The Mix

Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade, a relocated ‘Twelfth Night’ and a museum exhibit on Jewish delis are among the entertainment highlights this week.

Chicago Sun-Times

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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How did we get here? at Sadler’s Wells review – Mel C brings gravity to her contemporary dance debut

It’s a contemplative hour of dance – so don’t expect any zigazig-ah

Evening Standard

The best dance of 2022

Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring

The Guardian - UK

Julie Cunningham & Company review – holding the moment

In this double bill, a queer response to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, the dancing is direct, controlled and compelling

The Guardian - UK

Appreciation: What did Peter Brook and Richard Taruskin have in common? Next to nothing and everything

Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

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