Dance

Dance

A Clown, a Ballerina, and a Moore: Basil Twist’s “Petrushka”

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Puppets playing puppets much better than Diaghilev’s dancers ever could.

Dance

Clara Gets Laid: Vanessa White’s “The Slutcracker”

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Last week, I caught the final dress rehearsal of The Slutcracker (@ the Somerville Theatre through the 20th, but basically sold out). Vanessa White (of the burlesque troupe Babes in Boinkland) turns the classic ballet for people who don’t really like ballet into a sprawling campy burlesque striptease show, where Clara is female yuppie whose [...]