- Sarah Kaufman
- Critic
Sarah Kaufman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has been The Washington Post’s dance critic since 1996. But after logging serious sit-time in opera houses, church basements, fairground tents and lawn chairs, what moves her most is seeing grace happen where she least expects it
‘The Sun Also Rises’: Washington Ballet’s voyage to Hemingway’s world
REVIEW | Set in a fantasized Spain and Paris in the 1920s, it’s restrained, but full, enthusiastic and great fun.
Ballets Russes: The ascent of men
The innovative company redefined the feminized ballet world with its modernism and masculine dancers.
Monica Bill Barnes & Company puts on a funny, affecting evening of dance
Troupe brings its smart, kooky humor and compassion to the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
Isadora Duncan is captured in ‘Once Wild’
New theater production portrays famed dancer as seen through her adopted daughter’s eyes.
- Washington Ballet’s ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises’
- At CityDance, Asanga Domask assures future of traditional Sri Lankan dance
- ‘Once Wild’ explores Isadora Duncan’s varied facets beyond dancing
- Karen Sherman’s ‘One With Others’ gleefully mocks artistic hooey
- ‘Sometimes, Silence’ portrays a mom’s worry with sons at war
- Doug Elkins’s ‘Mo(or)town/Redux’ combines soul and Shakespeare, brilliantly
- Anna Sokolow’s poignancy and absurdity again revived by Singh Dance Company
- American Ballet Theatre works at Kennedy Center attest to a company in fine fettle
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