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March 2013
Flash Review, 3-21: 'Cigarettes' in the dark
Only Pina Bausch can give oppressiveness light
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Festival Review, 3-21: Redemption Songs
'Expressive Esoterica' from Sarris and Anthology
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash View, 3-13: Revisiting 'Rite'... and Rights
100 years after 'Le Sacre' exploded conventions, conventional women's roles persist
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By Christine Chen
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Flash Flashback, 3-13: No Sacrifice
Paris Opera Ballet gets Down to Earth for Bausch's "Sacre du Printemps"
(When Will New York Ballet Companies Stop Pretending Mats Ek, Maguy Marin, and Pina Bausch Never Happened?)
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Arts Voyager Gallery, 3-7: Surreal Surprises
Morgan exhibition excludes a master
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 3-5: What is America to Me?
Van Cliburn and the Fort Worth Symphony rise to the occasion
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February 2013
Art Investment News, 2-28: Lord of the rings
Calder at the Circus at Christie's New York's First Open
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Festival Review, 2-21: Turning Japanese
Radical Japanese film of the 1960s & '70s @ Anthology
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The Buzz, 2-20: Can-can attitude, can-do arabesque
La Goulue lifted her dress, La Taglioni her pointes, and both lifted women's rights
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Arts Voyager Gallery, 2-17: Patrimoine
A revitalized Musee de Montmartre revives le Chat Noir
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Call for Artists, 2-17: Revivifying a Monument
The Bateau-Lavoir is looking for a new visage
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Tumultuous Times: 12 years of dance in Europe
Charming Babilee Can't Save New Nadj
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Arts Voyager Gallery, 2-7: Back to the Future
Cezanne in Budapest: Even the 'father of us all' had parents
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January 2013
Flash Film & Livestock show Review, 1-25: Let there be blood
Cinema verité in French "Nana"; Grand illusions at the Fort Worth Rodeo & Livestock Show
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Arts Voyager Gallery, 1-18: Balancing acts
Degas in 'La-La'-land at the Morgan
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In Memorium, 1-16: Rebecca Jung
Sweet Paradise: a Personal Recollection
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 1-16: Les Fleurs du Mal
Fallen Angels, Resurrected "Hors Satan"
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Guide, 1-14: Inside Presenting
From the cradle to the grave, 10 new ways to build your audience (from the experts)
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Arts Voyager Gallery, 1-8: The Big Bang Axiom
Back to the Future with "Inventing Abstraction" at MoMA
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 1-8: Where's Ida Rubinstein?
Nijinsky at the Orsay: Mis-steps at an Exhibition
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December 2012
Flash Flashback, 12-21: The woman in the poster
Jane Avril by Francois Caradec: There's a reason she inspired Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Arts Voyager, 12-18: Moving in the Light
Matisse at the Met: A body of work, also at work on the body
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Tumultuous Times: 12 years of dance in Europe
Tanz-Miniatures from Wolfl and Neuer Tanz
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 12-13: Lovable Losers
Woody who?; Anthology fetes Ben Gazzara, the real NY Everyman
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Art Investment News Gallery, 12-5: From collector to collection
An American Panorama at the Amon Carter
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Cross Country / A Memoir of France
19: Oui, je parle baguette
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November 2012
Letter from Marseille, 11-15:
Slaves to the FDAmM
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By Laurie Uprichard
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The Arts Voyager, 11-15: The case of Albert Camus, the Stranger who looks like us
A plea to the French government to step in and sponsor his centennial exhibition
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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September 2012
Dance Insider / Arts Voyager Gallery, 9-19: 'You live as long as you dance'
20 years deja: Nureyev remembered in new Franco-American exhibition
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Flash First Person, 9-19: 'That was Rudy for you!'
Working with -- and dancing for -- Nureyev
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By Marcello Angelini
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Flash Flashback, 9-19: You Oughta be in Pictures
Nureyev's "Cinderella" is More than Ready for its Screen Test
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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August 2012
The Arts Voyager, 8-14: Arts Voyager, Generations
Ruth Asawa: From darkness into light
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July 2012
Letter from London, 7-27: Acrobats of God
Pina Forever
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By Josephine Leask
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Dance Insider / Arts Voyager Gallery, 7-27:
A Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch Photo Gallery
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The Arts Voyager, 7-22: A course in miracles
Essays in direction at Anthology Film Archives
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June 2012
The Arts Voyager, 6-6: What is hip?
Of "hipsters," "coffee culture," and the resonant silence of Jean Epstein
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May 2012
The Arts Voyager, 5-17: Ridin' Away
Dawson, Harris, & the Texas Trailhands put the 'whole' back in wholesome
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Art Investor, 5-2: Blue-Chip Stocks
Heavy-weight sales for heavy-weight artists at Christie's New York
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April 2012
Flash Preview, 4-27: Decent Exposure
Amy Greenfield Sings the Body Electric
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Flash Review, 4-27: Living Room Theater
Peeping Tom: A lesson on how to do dance-theater right in "The Salon"
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 4-27: Do dead mimes cry?
Meg Stuart: An American indulged in Paris
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 4-23: Grave Matters
Taglioni not buried where City of Paris says she is
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-22: Let there be light
Snapshots' at the Phillips: How science helped Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Vallotton, Riviere, Breitner, and Evenepoel illuminate an art
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-18: Paris the Eternal
Atget documents a patrimony: A walking tour of yesterday and today in the City of Lutece
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-12: Art like me
Ways of seeing: Ruth Asawa, John Howard Griffin, Charles M. Russell, 'Frank Artsmarter,' and the Medium and its Messengers
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-5: Pas si miserable que ca....
DOW got you down? Art market soars... on the wings of Victor Hugo
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-4: Dispersion
A family disseminates a legacy: Collection Hugo at Christie's Paris
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March 2012
Letter from London, 3-31: Perilous Flamenco
High-stakes dance from Pericet, Amargo, & Gades
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By Josephine Leask
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The Arts Voyager, 3-29: The Case of the Pertinent Painter
Maximilien Luce: From the draft to the chef d'oeuvre
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The Arts Voyager, 3-26: "Metropolis: L'Exposition"
Moving stills from a restored movie masterpiece
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The Arts Voyager, 3-22: Art-full Politics
Diego Rivera returns to MOMA
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The Arts Voyager, 3-20: San Francisco, 1964
Tress revives a heritage that died for Dan White's sins
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The Arts Voyager, 3-16: I am not Impressed
When is so much Renoir too much? The Kimbell squanders a golden opportunity
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 3-14: All in the Family
'7 Sicknesses' of Atreus in 5 Hours
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
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The Arts Voyager, 3-13: An intimate universe
In Paris, rare treasures by Brueghel, Guardi, Berchem, Tissot, Isabey, Breitner, & more from the Fondation Custodia
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 3-8: Un-censored
From Jean Vigo to Jean Genet and Jean-Luc Godard, Eisenstein to the MItchell Brothers, Pasolini to Iran, the Cinematheque de Toulouse fetes banned films
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 3-7: Category Busters
From Durer to Warhol, Christie's Print Sale offers rare portal to 500 years of art history
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 3-5: Menagerie
From the Dordogne to Delacroix & Degas, Calder & Hockney: 15,000 years of Artists on Animals
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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February 2012
Flash Review, 2-28: Resurrection
A complex 'Peony' from Nanjing
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
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The Buzz, 2-14: Non-revelations
Ailey in Berkeley light on Alvin
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 2-10: Don't fence him in
Charles M. Russell gets a new look
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The Arts Voyager, 2-10: Revelations
From Christie's February 8 sales, an education in the art of Berthe Morisot, Maria Blanchard, Maurice Utrillo, and Paul Signac (and Maximilien Luce)
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Flash News, 2-8: Bullish on Art
More World Records Tumble at Christie's Sale
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The Arts Voyager, 2-3: Gender-bender
'Entre Nous': Claude Cahun @ the Art Institute of Chicago
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Flash Review, 2-3: Poseur
Poe's flat homage to Godard flatlines
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January 2012
Flash Review, 1-31: Post-mod wants to get funked up
The inevitable ungainliness of being David Dorfman
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By Nicholas Birns
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The Arts Voyager, 1-26: I'm a reel cow-hand
Chaneling Bob Wills at the Stock Show & Rodeo
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The Buzz, 1-24: The tears of a clown
For next Graham Company NY season, only half the works are by Martha Graham
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 1-20: Found footage
"Le fond de l'air est rouge": Seeing red at Anthology
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The Arts Voyager, 1-19: In search of our forgotten ancestors
American heritage with Washington's teeth, Texas's open-door immigration, and cowboys (and cowgirls) of color
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Flash Review, 1-19: "Ghost Light"
Taccone & Moscone probe a city's tragedy and a son's search
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By Jordan Winer
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The Arts Voyager, 1-8: John Marin at the Amon Carter
'Nature's laws of motion have to be obeyed'
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The Arts Voyager, 1-5: Waiting in Limbo
The vaporous, smoldering art of Catherine Olivier
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December 2011
Flash Review, 12-18: Out of the Middle, Firmly Elevated
Tulsa Scales the Stratosphere
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By Alicia Chesser
Copyright 2011 Alicia Chesser
Photos by Rosalie O'Connor
The Arts Voyager, 12-13: Impressionist as Humanist
"Pissarro's People" revived in San Franciscobr
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager 2, 12-13: Les Anarchistes
Watkins's "La Commune," Tanner's "Charles...," and Mekas's 'Sleepless' nights @ Anthology
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 12-13: Return of the non-native
Khan delves into 'Desh' of his ancestors
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Review, 12-7: Cheers & Jeers
3/4 of 'A Fifth of Christmas' from SceneShop
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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November 2011
Flash Communique, 11-9: Romeo Castellucci at the Theatre de la Ville - Paris
October 20 - 30: 10 days of resistance to fanaticism
The director, the staff of the Theatre de la Ville, and the audience did not give in
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By Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
Artistic director, Theatre de la Ville
Translated and with an introduction
by Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Review, 11-7: Can everything old be new again?
Jones/Zane, Redux
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
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October 2011
Flash Review, 11-24: Deja vu et bienvenue
Monnier & Duroure Redux
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By Laurie Uprichard
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The Arts Voyager, 10-19: Artist as Witness
Occupying the Media with Woody Guthrie and Oliver Laxe
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The Arts Voyager, 10-14: The Art Mavericks
Amon Carter and his children
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 10-7: Merce
A Dance Memoir
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By Elinor Rogosin
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September 2011
Flash Review, 9-30: 'Echoes from Home'
Iordanova preserves the mystery
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By Nicholas Birns
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The Arts Voyager, 9-29: Ariane's Sense of Snow
From Michel, an anti-travelogue of Greenland
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Cross Country / A Memoir of France
6: Paul au pays des morts-vivants
With Taglioni & Truffaut in the land of the living dead
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 9-23: Ready for their close-ups
From hilarity to calamity with Platel's transvestites
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By Josephine Leask
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The Johnston Letter, Volume 1, Number 3
Be Ready for Anything
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By Jill Johnston
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Letter from New York, 9-15: Hump-day with the Mariinsky
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By Harris Green
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Flash Flashback, 9-11: Bessie at the Barricades
An Open Letter from David White
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By David White
Photography by Julie Lemberger
The Arts Voyager, 9-7: Send in the Clowns
Running away with the circus with Covi & Frimmel
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
The Arts Voyager, 9-2: What is America to Me?
Van Cliburn and the Fort Worth Symphony rise to the occasion
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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August 2011
Letter from New York, 8-18: Ballet, Generations
American Ballet Theatre changes the guard
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By Harris Green
Copyright 2011 Harris Green
The Arts Voyager, 8-16: Tales of the Texas Rangers
SceneShop expands the monologue
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 8-2: 'Summertime' & the Curating is Stunning
Robin Rice broadens the vista and ups the Ante
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Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Letter from New York, 8-2: Caught 'Nap'ing
Danes update 'Napoli,' bid adieu to Cavallo
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By Harris Green
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July 2011
Flash Festival Preview, 7-15: '70s Film Groove
Back to 42nd Street with Lustig at Anthology
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France: Revisiting Roland Petit
Return of the Ballerina
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2002, 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
Space, the Final Frontier: Site-Limitless Work from Mantero and Fiadeiro
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 7-7: Getting Gat
Reflections on "Brilliant Corners"
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By Laurie Uprichard
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Cross Country / A Memoir of France
5: The Return of the Girl in the Green Dress
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Review, 7-6: Music First, Dance Always
Donna Scro frees the space at Danspace
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By Nicholas Birns
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Flash Preview, 7-1: The Greatest, brought down to Earth
With Muhammad, on his Mountain
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
An American Dance Fan in France: In Montpellier, it's Back to the Future
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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June 2011
Letter from New York, 6-24: Back to School & Back to Benefits
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By Harris Green
Copyright 2011 Harris Green
The Arts Voyager, 6-24: Auberge Espagnol
Mariscal @ Martel: Elevating the "Alpha-Art''
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The Arts Voyager, 6-18: Pieces of a Dream
Mariscal, Barnet, Hamad, Haring: A NY State of Mind Moves Out
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 6-15: Dancing in the Dunes
Back to the source with Pages & Larbi
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Flashback, 6-15: Dance in the Age of Cholera
Larbi on War & Other Follies
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By Rosa Mei
Copyright 2003, 2011 Rosa Mei
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
Flamenco Reactionary: From Maria Pages, Novel Approaches to the Form
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2005, 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
The Arts Voyager, 6-11: Charleston Diary, III
Three choreographers stumble into a new century
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By Chris Dohse
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The Arts Voyager, 6-3: Charleston Diary, II
All in the family
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By Chris Dohse
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Flash Review, 6-2: 'Everything' and the Boys
The 'Incredible' destiny of Javier De Frutos
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By Josephine Leask
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The Arts Voyager, 6-1: "Brassens ou le liberté"
Brassens, stripped by Sfar
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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May 2011
The Arts Voyager, 5-28: Charleston Diary
1: Writing about art as art
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By Chris Dohse
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In Memorium, 5-26: Stephen De Staebler
From soil to spirit
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
Let Them eat Chocolate Pistachio Mousse: Gallows Humor from Emmanuelle Huynh
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from New York, 5-24: Acrobats of time, mothers without mothers
Stenn & Donohue: Why are two '90s superstars performing in 50-seat houses?
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Review, 5-13: Seance
Schwartz conjures musical spirits at the NYC Opera
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By Christine Chen
Copyright 2011 Christine Chen
The Arts Voyager, 5-9: Love, Art, & Death in the Time of Cholera
Haring fleshed out at Gladstone; Vega's skin-deep McCullers
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback 1, 5-2: Rinse, Lather, Repeat
Bausch's New, Older Version of "Kontakthof"
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By Rosa Mei
Copyright 2002, 2011 Rosa Mei
Flash Film Review, 5-2: Dancing Elders
Ladies & Gentleman Over 65, Meet Pina Bausch
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By Lisa Kraus
Copyright 2004, 2011 Lisa Kraus
April 2011
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
Breathless: Pina Meets the (French) Press
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Arts Voyager, 4-27: Return to Innocence
Bonnie Lucas at Esopus
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Letter from London, 4-26: Merging lanes
Tavaziva doubles over; Protein laughs out loud
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Review, 4-25: The Big Blink
Jewett probes the pupil
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By Christine Chen
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Flash Flashback, 4-22: Grave Matters
TAGLIONI'S NOT IN MONTMARTRE
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By The Dance Insider
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Flash Flashback, 4-21: Going to the Chapel
Our Lady of Bausch
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By Chris Dohse
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The Arts Voyager, 4-19: Happy Journey
Artifacts and artisans in Maryland; poet-artists in New Jersey; poets and artists in Pennsylvania
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 4-13: Exits and Entrances
Merce is dead; long live Merce
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By Daniel Gwirtzman
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March 2011
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
From Paris, avec feeling: Technique + Emotion = Paris Opera Ballet
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from New York, 3-28: Farewell, Taylorina
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By Harris Green
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Letter from New York, 3-25: Blazing with both barrels
Auto-Remakes at Anthology & DC Moore
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 3-21: The Play's the Thing
Tulsa tells a story 'Shrew'dly
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By Alicia Chesser
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Flash Film Festival Review, 3-21: Take two
Auto-Remakes at Anthology: Twice as Nice
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Decisive Decade: 10 years of dance in France
Tanz-Miniatures from Wolfl and Neuer Tanz
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Film Festival Review, 3-9: Rearview Mirror
Alien-nation a la Francaise: Goupil's "Les mains dans l'air," Badis's "Le chemin noir," & Quillévéré's "Un poison violent"
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Film Festival Review, 3-9: Repartir a Zero
"Service Entrance" & "Serie Noire": Facing fear at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 3-8: Williams Gumbo
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By Daniel Gwirtzman
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The Arts Voyager, 3-4: The many worlds of Raghu Rai
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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February 2011
Flash Review, 2-26: Denby, Dancing
Rudy makes a movie about money, and Edwin shows up
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 2-25: With the angels
Duende 101 with Pena & Pals
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 2-22: Framed
Thomas & Young 'Litup' at 92Y
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By Daniel Gwirtzman
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Flash Review, 2-17: Flamenco Fizzes
Saura soft-peddles Sevillian dance
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The Art Voyager, 2-16: Rhapsody in cardboard, sheet metal, newspaper, paint....
"Picasso's Guitars 1912 - 1914" at MOMA
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Review, 2-14: 'Swan' dives
Swan seeks swain; contact New York City Ballet
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Letter from New York, 2-12: Luster Mustered
Birthday and other gifts from City Ballet
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By Harris Green
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The Art Voyager, 2-12: Gallery Hop-o-thermia
Fear & Loathing in Chelsea
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 2-10: Dance, Ballerina, Dance
Bouder too good, Mearns too short, Suozzi too long (haired): Another night at City Ballet
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Letter from New York, 2-8: Templates
Signature Siren, Stunning Stroman at City Ballet
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Letter from New York, 2-2: Battle of the Nuts
New colors from ABT & Ratmansky, but City Ballet's Mr. B still sets standard
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By Harris Green
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Letter from New York, 2-1: Gatherings
Feteing Jilly, framed in the LES, frameable City Ballet
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January 2011
Flash Review, 1-28: All in the family
Prodigal sons & SAB prodigies at City Ballet
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2011 Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Review, 1-27: Dance is a contact sport
NYC Ballet week 2: 'Symphony' in 2D; Ringer makes Robbins never lovelier
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 1-23: Not 'Phase' away
De Keersmaeker at MOMA: The universe of dance on grains of sand
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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'Flash Flashback, 1-23: Critics Cornered
Why we review dance
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 1-20: 'Gathering' moss; 'Export' mess
Dazzling Ringer, shining Shahn save the day at City Ballet
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Flash Review, 1-19: Riding the wind
Bouder rides the currents, Somogyi reverberates, Marcovici sculpts, and New York City Ballet opens new horizons
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Festival Review, 1-14: Witness
From Belarus, a tribute to Harold Pinter, a debt to the victims, and an adieu to Ellen Stewart
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 1-12: The Queen of Concept
Scheme sabotages style in Michelson's "Daylight"
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
Copyright 2005 Philip W. Sandstrom
Flash Flashback, 1-12: Asphalt Dance/Opera
Comfort & Co. Bring the Street into the Theater
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By Peggy H. Cheng
Copyright 2000 Peggy H. Cheng
Flash Festival Review, 1-11: Eyes without a face
Puppets & Philosophy from Betontanc & Umka LV
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 1-7: Triplets
Gender-hopping with Guillem & Co.; "Destino"'s Children
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By Josephine Leask
Copyright 2009 Josephine Leask
The Artful Voyager, 1-7: Slaves of New York
Vital dance in Gotham may be missing, but Chan isn't
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2010 Paul Ben-Itzak
Flash Interview, 1-5; Ballet's World Traveleri
A conversation with Ethan Stiefel
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By Francis Mason
Copyright 2001 Ethan Stiefel and Francis Mason
Flash Reprise, 1-4: Dancing in Place & beyond
Vincent goes on; Vardimon goes back; Xaba & Noel cross over
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Flashback, 1-4: Mr. Khan, Meet Mr. Larbi
On the Road to Calcutta with Akram and Sidi
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review 1-3: From sandbox to coffin
Galvan's Apocalypse
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Art Voyager, 1-3: "The Naked Martini"
Next to Leonard, 'Lights' dim
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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December 2010
Flash Film Reviews, 12-24: Hack Swans & Swains
'Black Swan' bleeds inauthenticity; 'Mao's Last' won't
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By Harris Green
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The Buzz, 12-19: Jill, Encore
The importance of being Jill Johnston
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Buzz, 12-14: Felasco
The DTW/Jones merger; the dance/dancing merger
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 12-8: Rats in the Kitchen
Asleep at the wheel at New York City Ballet
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Buzz, 12-6: Philistines at the temple
The unbearable lightness of Alastair Macaulay
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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The Buzz, 12-1: Critics Cornered
Macaulay & McCarter: Ballet's not dead, but intelligent criticism may be
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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November 2010
Flash Review, 11-22: Catch as Khan can't
Akram Khan's new 'Vertical Road' loses direction
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Diatribe, 11-17: The definition of Art
Or, What is Art?
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By Neil Zukerman
CFM Gallery
Flash Review, 11-8: Instances of climax
Merce, in rare film and video and in a new 'Event'
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from New York, 11-3: Dancing the talk at City Ballet
Early returns on NYCB's early fall season: Mixed
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By Harris Green
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October 2010
The Arts Voyager, 10-28: Department store art
You can find it at Leonards... Department Store Museum
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2010 Paul Ben-Itzak
The Arts Voyager, 10-23: From tango to teaching
Gracey Tune taps an art vein in Texas
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 10-21: Flight changes
Swan debuts, swan moments, and new flocks at Tulsa Ballet
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By Alicia Chesser
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Photography copyright Rosalie O'Connor
Flash Review, 10-12: Balancing acts
From stupid to sublime with Circus Oz
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 10-7: Going with the tide
Sasha Waltzes with the tsunumis
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Paris Journal, 10-1: Beneath the shell
Jeanne Mordoj, Kataline Patkai, Isabelle Esposito & Marie Chouinard -- Reflections on forms of beautybr>
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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September 2010
Flash Review, 9-27: Shoes don't fail me now
High-heeled talent for low-brow look at footwear
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Book Review, 9-20; Avril in Paris
Jane Avril by Francois Caradec: There's a reason she inspired Toulouse-Lautrec
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from New York, 9-14: Skyscraping
Last flights and flights of fancy at NYCB.
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By Harris Green
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Flash Flashback, 9-9: Comes the Rain
Pina Washes Out; the Most Centered Dancer in the Wor
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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August 2010
Letter from London, 8-31: Variations on a theme
From Birmingham to Bolshoi
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By Victoria Watts
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Letter from New York, 8-16: ABT, generations
Spring season: Classics, shorts, and a lot more....
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By Harris Green
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Flash Review, 8-10: Queer theories
Heron and Hijack on a tear
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By Gus Solomons jr
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Flash Review, 8-6: Why Paul Mejia beats Peter Martins hands down
How Metropolitan Classical Ballet lives up to Balanchine tradition
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 8-2: Frontal Action
English National 'Swan' goes round and round
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By Victoria Watts
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July 2010
Letter from London, 7-19: Voyages
Mixed results from Royal mixed bills
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By Victoria Watts
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June 2010
Letter from New York, 6-17: Landscapes
Arcs & Textures at City Ballet
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By Harris Green
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In memorium, 6-2: Kazuo Ohno
Last dance
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By Marisa C. Hayes
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May 2010
Paris Dispatch, 5-31: Bright lights, big city
Taking it to the streets
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 5-26: Underground
Beres burrows beneath the visage
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 5-20: Beautiful Mes
Maqoma mixes in Montmartre
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Paris Dispatch, 5-18: Reflecting
Sarah Bernhardt's mirror
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from London, 5-17: Playtime
Danza with Ek; Flatt not; Pina still in Kontakt
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By Josephine Leask
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Paris Dispatch, 5-14: Home
We still have Paris
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 5-11: Words matter
Sagna's bout with depression
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Review, 5-11: Mac attack
Assessing Sir Kenneth
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By Victoria Watts
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Letter from New York, 5-3: Debuts
Corella & Lubovitch: A company and a star are born
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By Harris Green
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April 2010
Flash Dispatch, 4-27: Jazz is Paris
Miles and Miles and Miles of Malcolm McLaren
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback, 4-23: Grave matters
TAGLIONI'S NOT IN MONTMARTRE
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Flash Flashback 2, 4-23: Birthday Pictures
April 23, 2004: Marie Taglioni's Bicentennial
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Photos by and copyright 2004 Dick Turner Letter from New York, 4-14: Lapses
Flowing in the light with Sperling; drowning in it with Sadia-Lavan
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
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The Dance Insider Interview, 4-7: Gelsey Kirkland
'Abstraction is coming to its logical end'
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Corella's new venture; Skybetter's control
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By Gus Solomons jr
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Flash Review, 4-2: Revolution
Bach to Basics with Ballet Black
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By Victoria Watts
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Flash Tragedy, 4-1: Alas, poor Martha
We knew her, Horatio; until Janet got through connecting her to today's audiences
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By I.M.. Joshin
(For Martha Graham, who died this day in 1991... and is dying more every day.)
March 2010
Letter from New York, 3-26: Narratives
A season of stories from City Ballet
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By Harris Green
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Flash Review, 3-26: Jackie O?
Finley does Kennedy Onassis
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By Philip W. Sandstrom
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Out of the Fog, 3-21: Climate change
SF Ballet 'Mermaid' a smash of a splash
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By Aimée Ts'ao
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Out of the Fog, 3-19: Story-time
Chapter & book from Farrell & SF Ballet
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By Aimée Ts'ao
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Flash Review, 3-17: Infra Rushes As One
Some things new and a lot of clichés at the Royal<
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By Victoria Watts
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Flash Review, 3-16: 'Winter' was hot
Tulsa's Cong finds his voice
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By Alicia Chesser
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Flash Review, 3-8: Blood on the dance floor
Tulsa 'Dracula' breaks all records
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By Alicia Chesser
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Flash Review 2, 3-8: Mixed blood
In the diaspora with Khan and Sawhney
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By Josephine Leask
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Flash Review, 3-4: The odd couple
Star-crossed & mismatched at the Royal
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By Victoria Watts
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February 2010
Letter from New York, 2-26: Channeling
Cardona's intimate humanity, Alston's musical inspiration, and Zollar's spirited women
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By Gus Solomons jr
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The Buzz, 2-22: Local Yokel
The unbearable lightness of Alastair Macaulay
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By Paul Ben-Itzak
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Letter from New York, 2-19: Christenings and baptisms
City Ballet holds a house-warming; Prodigal Boal comes home
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By Harris Green
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Flash Review, 2-16: Winter Tales
From 'Patineurs' to 'Potter' at the Royal
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By Victoria Watts
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January 2010
Letter from London, 1-4: Dancing in Place & beyond
Vincent goes on; Vardimon goes back; Xaba & Noel cross over
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By Josephine Leask
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