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Archives for January 2011

Wednesday, January 26:

January 26, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr

the battle between steps and ideas in "downtown dance" … [Read more...]

Thursday January 20:

January 20, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr

Tuning in to tone … [Read more...]

Tuning in to tone with five dances and one movie

January 17, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr 2 Comments

By the time I was nine, home was my mother, my sister, and I. We bickered in twos, with the third as chorus and tie breaker. Sometimes my sister would cut me off or my mother her with a complaint about "tone"--how she didn't "like it." It's a dread phrase, "I don't like your tone," because it implies that there isn't anything behind the tone to have excited it--or that there shouldn't … [Read more...]

Wednesday January 5

January 5, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr

Now that your jaws are tired, I tell you about the Nuts I cracked.  … [Read more...]

Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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