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Dance Reviews 2025, Fjord Review

Invisible Wounds [REVIEW]

Performance Wanjiru Kamuyu/WKcollective: “Fragmented Shadows” by Wanjiru Kamuyu in collaboration with Sherwood Chen and Elodie Paul Place Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, October 22, 2025 Words Steve Sucato for Fjord Review It was apropos that I attended choreographer Wanjiru Kamuyu’s latest work, “Fragmented Shadows,” just before Halloween. In many ways, the work felt like watching a horror movie—the dancers’ often contorted bodies and facial features looked as … Continue reading Invisible Wounds [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews 2025, Fjord Review

Ultimate Release [REVIEW]

Performance“Songs of the Bulbul” by Rani Khanam PlaceByham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11, 2025 WordsSteven Sucato for Fjord Review Perhaps not since Mikhail Fokine’s 1905 iconic “The Dying Swan” has there been as haunting a solo dance depiction of avian death as Aakash Odedra Company’s “Songs of the Bulbul” (2024). The 50-minute piece, inspired by the ancient Sufi myth of a bulbul (nightingale) held in captivity … Continue reading Ultimate Release [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews 2025

MOMIX’s Trippy ‘ALICE’ Feeds Audiences’ Heads With Wonder [REVIEW]

MOMIX – ALICEMimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OHOctober 11, 2025 (2 & 7:30 pm)By Steve Sucato Using Lewis Carroll’s famous 1865 novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as a jumping-off point, MOMIX founder Moses Pendleton’s dance version of the iconic tale appeared to follow more of the hallucinogenic inferences in Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 song “White Rabbit” along with the surrealism of Salvador Dali’s 1969 Illustrations … Continue reading MOMIX’s Trippy ‘ALICE’ Feeds Audiences’ Heads With Wonder [REVIEW]

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