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Byline: THEODORE BALE ESTAMPAS PORTENAS presents "TANGO FIRE" At the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Friday night. Also last night and today. Estampas Portenas has been promoted as Buenos Aires' "most acclaimed […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "URBAN NUTCRACKER" At John Hancock Hall, Friday night. Continues through Dec. 16. The opening scene of this year's "Urban Nutcracker" at John Hancock Hall is one of […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Getting together with your loved ones - or loved one - during the holidays to see a show? If so, make it a ritual of revelation rather […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE MAUREEN FLEMING At the Institute of Contemporary Art, last night. Repeats tonight and tomorrow afternoon. Maureen Fleming conveys more meaning in one evening than most choreographers put […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE SEAN CURRAN COMPANY At the Tsai Performance Center, Friday night. Repeats today at 3 p.m. "I hate homosexuals, they are the scum of the earth. I even […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Sean Curran is a choreographer who, in his own words, "likes to say old things in new ways." Known for working often with classical music, his latest […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET in "La Sylphide," with "Serenade" At the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday night. Continues through Oct. 28. George Balanchine's classic "Serenade" is a ballet about letting […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE If you've been to the new Institute of Contemporary Art on the waterfront, you might not have noticed the elegant Harborwalk that surrounds the back of this […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Tuesday night. Continues through Sunday. In recent years it seemed as if Mark Morris had turned into […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET in "GISELLE" At the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday night. Continues through May 20. You've heard of "The Three Tenors," a music spectacle combining talent, glamour […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER At the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday night. Continues through tomorrow. Just how versatile a choreographer was Alvin Ailey? Thursday night at the […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE For contemporary-dance choreographer Karl Cronin, the theater is a laboratory. Each dance he creates requires a different technique because each dance is based on a new hypothesis. […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BEBE MILLER COMPANY in "LANDING/PLACE" At the ICA, Friday night. Continues through April 15. With its digital motion-capture projections, video and computer-generated music, Bebe Miller's sumptuous "Landing/Place" […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BEBE MILLER COMPANY in "LANDING/PLACE" At the ICA, last night. Continues through April 15. With its digital motion-capture projections, video and computer-generated music, Bebe Miller's sumptuous "Landing/Place" […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S "NEW VISIONS" At the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday; through Sunday. You might think you know somebody well, and in a fewmoments an entirely new sense […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Learning that spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph lives in Oakland, I thought immediately of Zion I, one of the hottest hip-hop groups in the Bay Area. […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE When Betty Blaze tells people she's a burlesque dancer, they look at her as if she has two heads. Which she does - at least on stage. […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM." At the Citi Wang Theatre, Thursday; runs through Feb. 18. Maybe Boston Ballet decided to stage a new production of "A […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "The Barber of Seville" was a hot new opera nearly 200 years ago. In the 21st century, what's hot is contemporary flamenco from Seville. When Compania Rafaela […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY At the Institute of Contemporary Art, last night. Repeats tonight. A few years ago, choreographer Stephen Petronio told The Herald that he had "some […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Though Kwanzaa doesn't begin until Dec. 26, Art of Black Dance and Music is giving celebrants a head start with its annual performance and ritual tonight at […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "PILOBOLUS" At the Citi Shubert Theatre, last night; runs through tomorrow. Pilobolus celebrated its 35th anniversary last night at the Shubert Theatre with two tolerable dances by […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S "THE NUTCRACKER" At the Opera House, Thursday; runs through Dec. 30. There's something new going on at the Opera House. Boston Ballet's "The Nutcracker" may […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "CRITICAL MOVES" At Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Friday night. The standard group repertory show, the most common format in the local dance scene, becomes something quite different […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE When Michael Jahoda performed recently at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, he roped off the seats, forcing the audience to stroll around him while he danced among […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Yuriko doesn't recall the details of the premiere of Martha Graham's "Night Journey" at Cambridge High School in 1947. But even though she's 87, the legendary Graham […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Are the only versions of the great Russian classical ballets worth seeing danced by Russian companies? "Yes - and no," said Diana Vishneva, the 30-year-old prima ballerina. […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE If there's a message in John Lennon's drawings 26 years after his death, it's a simple yet profound one: "The message is love," said Yoko Ono, speaking […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE He calls it "a comic, subversive neo-vaudeville." New York choreographer David Parker's abstraction of the ever-popular Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker" should be familiar enough through its use […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S GALA PERFORMANCE At the Wang Theatre, Wednesday night. It was the night of 15 ballets and 1,000 stars. Not quite 1,000, but it felt that […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE JOSE MATEO'S BALLET THEATRE At the Sanctuary Theatre, Cambridge, last night; runs through Nov. 5. Just in time for Halloween comes the premiere of Jose Mateo's "Covens," […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Ask almost any choreographer in the local modern-dance scene where he or she started showing dances, and the most likely reply will be: the Shared Choreographers' Concert […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S "DON QUIXOTE" At the Wang Theatre, Thursday night; runs through Oct. 29. What is the point of restaging a classical ballet? For many choreographers and […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET'S "DON QUIXOTE" At the Wang Theatre, last nightOct. 19; runs through Oct. 29. What is the point of re-staging a classical ballet? For many choreographers […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE What gives Boston Ballet's production of "Don Quixote" its particularly Spanish flavor? Perhaps it's the fact that many dancers of Hispanic origin have found their way into […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE There were back injuries, decisions to stop performing - and, most recently, the news she is 10 weeks pregnant. But it's likely nothing will ever stop Julie […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Chinese choreographer Shen Wei went to the mountains of Tibet in search of purity. He returned with the inspiration for an unusual dance for his New York-based […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Karole Armitage hasn't brought her dances to Boston in nearly two decades. But during those years she has remained at the cutting edge of contemporary dance. So […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Choreographer Tero Saarinen admits bringing together a Finnish contemporary dance company and an American early music ensemble for a work celebrating Shaker life might sound odd. But […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat's striking new version of "The Rite of Spring" was born in an unlikely place - on the sidewalk near a beach. Gat was […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "MANON"Presented by the Royal Ballet at the Wang Theatre, Thursday night; also tonight. The late Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet "Manon" is characterized by polarities. There is the […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE "MANON" Presented by the Royal Ballet at the Wang Theatre, last night; runs through tomorrow. The late Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet "Manon" is characterized by polarities. There […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE It took some doing to speak with former Boston Ballet principal dancer Sarah Lamb about her U.S. tour with London's Royal Ballet. She was occupied last week […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE Boston Ballet's season ended last weekend, but the dancers aren't all taking a much-deserved rest. Four women from the company have been putting the finishing touches on […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE MARGOT PARSONS DANCE COMPANY, "SWEEPING POOLS OF TIME" At the Boston University Dance Theater, last night; repeats tonight. Contemporary choreographer Margot Parsons doesn't make isolated or vaguely […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT At the Cutler Majestic Theatre, last night; runs through tomorrow. It's hard to imagine that when Rennie Harris was a child, he wished he […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET, "AN EVENING OF RUSSIAN BALLET" At the Wang Theatre, Thursday night; runs through tomorrow. Over at the Wang Theatre, there's a whole lotta liftin' goin' […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE BOSTON BALLET, "AN EVENING OF RUSSIAN BALLET" At the Wang Theatre, last night; runs through Sunday. Over at the Wang Theatre, there's a whole lotta liftin' goin' […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE When Rebecca Rice moved to Boston in 1985, she said it felt like she and many other struggling choreographers were "at the tail end of a wave." […]

Byline: THEODORE BALE It's not often that a ballerina gets a second chance to perform in Bronislava Nijinska's 1923 ballet "Les Noces" ("The Wedding"). And this time around, Boston Ballet […]