Dance

“Diving and Dancing into the ‘Wreck’”
Minnpost.com, January 8, 2008, feature.
To read, visit: minnpost.com/stories/2008/01/08/512/diving_and_dancing_into_the_wreck

“Zenon Dance Company: A Night to Remember”
Star Tribune, December 1, review.

“Zenon Carries On: A veteran and a rookie bookend 25 years of fresh choreography and energetic movement at Zenon Dance Company.”
Star Tribune, November 29, 2007, cover story.

“Toe to toe, Twin Cities dance community measures up.”
Minnpost.com, November 2007, post.
To read, visit: minnpost.com/camillelefevre

“Small works add up to a big effect: Two pieces in particular anchor TU Dance’s latest collection of contemporary dances.”
Star Tribune, November 17, 2007, review.
To read, visit: startribune.com/1526/story/1557957.html

“Illumination via imagination: The search for painful truths in Congolese history guides this evocative mix of dance, music and stories.”
Star Tribune, November 23, 2007, review.
To read, visit: startribune.com/121/story/1524860.html

“Risk and spontaneity in work of Bill Young/Colleen Thomas: New York troupe's non-narrative dances invoke street games, impending danger, battles of the sexes.”
Star Tribune, September 16, 2007, review.
To read, visit: startribune.com/121/story/1424997.html

“Political Movement. Through his new dance company, associate professor Carl Flink wants to connect minds with bodies and the University with the wider community.”
Minnesota Magazine, July/August 2006, feature.
To read visit: alumni.umn.edu/6Jul20063.html

“Outside the Lines: A new dance company redraws the boundaries of movement and audience in the Twin Cities.”
The Rake, June 2005, feature.
To read, visit: rakemag.com/reporting/features/outside-lines

“Dancing through Wartime. David Gordon’s ‘Dancing Henry V’ condenses the bard’s history play into a seamlessly choreographed narrative that resonates with contemporary politics.”
Star Tribune, February 13, 2005, feature.

“Morris: Everybody Dance Now. Mark Morris’s choreography starts with music to create his brilliantly musical work of engaging clarity and accessible generosity.”
Star Tribune, January 21, 2005, cover story.

“Hot Stuff. They’re young! They’re hot! Meet Ten Foot Five, the troupe that’s delivering a brash new dose of tap to the Twin Cities’ dance scene.
The Rake, November 2004, feature.
To read, visit: rakemag.com/reporting/features/fancy-foot-work

“A Perfect Collaboration. Dan Shapiro and Joanie Smith (Shapiro and Smith Dance) join forces with rock-and-roll friends Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa in creating the new dance piece, ‘Anytown.’”
Star Tribune, August 15, 2004, cover story.

“True Partners. In a year of intense highs and lows leading up to a St. Paul show this weekend, husband-and-wife dance makers James Sewell and Sally Rousse had to collaborate more closely than ever.”
Star Tribune, April 23, 2004, cover story.

“Doing the N.Y.-Twin Cities Tango. Producer David White of New York’s Dance Theater Workshop sees a vital but somewhat invisible dance scene in his new hometown.”
Star Tribune, March 7, 2004, feature.

“Bust a Move. Rennie Harris and other big names in hip-hop dance headline a festival devoted to the history and continual reinvention of a movement that has turned pop culture on its head.”
Star Tribune, October 19, 2003, cover story.

“Dancing From the Inside Out. Garth Fagan, of the ‘Lion King,’ returns to Northrop.”
Star Tribune, January 19, 2003, feature.

“Mind, Muscle, Movement. Mikhail Baryshnikov goes back to the future with a concert of works by those ‘60s rebels, the Judson Dance Theater.”
Star Tribune, September 23, 2001, feature.

“Fish Tale. Ruth MacKenzie's ‘Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden’ is an evocative melding of music, movement and theater based on Finland's pre-Christian national folk myth, ‘The Kalevala.’”
Star Tribune, February 18, 2001, feature.

“Borrowed Bones Dance Theatre Continues Dance Mastery. Wynn Fricke’s influences—Eastern thought and Jungian psychology—are clear in works that explore the intricacies of the subconscious.”
Star Tribune, September 23, 2000, feature.

“Cowboys Are My Weakness: Line dancing the gap between Western myth and reality.”
City Pages, August 11, 1993, essay.