Feed: "CriticalDance" By: Editor CriticalDance on Sunday, July 12, 2026
Akram Khan at Jacob’s Pillow – “Thikra: Night of Remembering”
[Editor’s Note: Please join me in welcoming Justin Rustle to CriticalDance. His extensive experience is outlined in the summary that follows this review.] Akram Khan Company Jacob’s Pillow 2026 Dance Festival Becket, MA July 8, 2026 Thikra: Night of Remembering Justin Rustle I thought she was a skeleton. Until she moved. Raising her hands at […]
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Scaffolding is up. Name will come down. Here's to building more scaffolds real and metaphoric.
WATCH LIVE: Scaffolding goes up at Kennedy Center ahead of deadline to remove Trump's name
A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Donald Trump’s name removed from building.
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Kennedy Center news. Please check it out. #kennedycenter #arts @kennedycenter.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies
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A great piece of dance writing here. Would love to see this work in this theatre. #AlexeiRatmansky #royaldanishballet #nikolajhubbe #artofthefugue #bach #ballet www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
Review: Ratmansky’s Astonishing ‘Fugue’ Finds a Home in Denmark
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MacKenzie Scott Backs Disaster Recovery in Marginalized Communities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c... #mackenziescott #philanthropy #humanitarian #rolemodell for #billionaires
MacKenzie Scott Backs Disaster Recovery in Marginalized Communities
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This woman turned ‘death sentence’ animal shelter into a place of hope #goodnews #animalshelter #adoptdontshop #pets #westvirginia
Keep resisting, keep making news. #texas #democrat #nicolecollier @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
Yes, Texas Representative Nicole Collier Was Under “House Arrest” in the Texas Capitol
Collier speaks about her surreal ordeal, wherein she refused to sign a permission slip and accept a police escort to leave the Austin statehouse and had to sleep there for two nights.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, character witness. Almost amusing. Release the Epstein files. #epsteinfiles #GhislaineMaxwell
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
Just watched this movie. Can recommend. Now reading the review. #janeaustenwreckedmylife #janeausten
‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: It’s Not Me, It’s Jane
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Smart article on the #BenShahn exhibition at the @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social by @isabellasegalovich.bsky.social #art #community #radical I haven't seen the show, but want to even more, informed by this critical engagement with it. Thanks, @hyperallergic.com
Ben Shahn Retrospective Misses Key Element of the Artist’s Legacy
Like the subjects of his artwork, Shahn gets removed from his communal and organizational context in the Jewish Museum’s exhibition.
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Exciting news for Jacob's Pillow and beyond. The former Duke was my favorite theatre for dance in the world. Feeling hopeful for this new version. @jacobspillow.bsky.social #dance #theatre #liveperformance #dorisduke #arts
At Jacob’s Pillow, a High-Tech Theater Rises From the Ashes
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Donald Trump and the Republican Party officially sold out working people. Every single Republican now owns the fact that 17 MILLION people will lose health care. Every Republican now owns the fact that grocery costs will go up. We cannot let them forget this.
Two years old and just reading. Maybe you'll like it too. #erniebarnes #painter #art #Blackfigurativeart #sugarshack
Millions Saw His Paintings on TV. In the Art World, His Work Still Went Unnoticed. (Published 2023)
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A weirdly familiar and depressing state of customer "service."
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”
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DOGE No Longer in Control of Federal Grant Website #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/40kfYdx
DOGE No Longer in Control of Federal Grant Website
The Department of Government Efficiency is no longer in command of Grants.gov, the federal website that posts grant opportunities from numerous government agencies, The Washington Post reported.
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Road trip. ("'Urban Stomp' at the Museum of the City of New York chronicles the metropolis’s social dance. It also invites you to join the party.) Through February.
New York City’s Creative Churn: The View From the Dance Floor
“Urban Stomp” at the Museum of the City of New York chronicles the metropolis’s social dance. It also invites you to join the party.
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Black history month. Black dance history. Choreographer and dancer Talley Beatty worked on the concert dance stage, on Broadway, and on film. His work "Southern Landscape" includes the extraordinary solo "Mourner's Bench" #talleybeatty #taylorstanley #blackdancehistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Taylor Stanley: "Mourner's Bench" from Southern Landscape - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive
As a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet since 2016, Taylor Stanley has worked with a variety of choreographers, achieving a breakout success (and winning a Bessie Award for Outstanding Perform...
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