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Since its debut in the summer of 2009, gloATL and choreographer Lauri Stallings have created a stir like no other artists in Atlanta. The itinerant troupe has danced outside on the Woodruff Arts Center plaza, danced in the streets of Castleberry Hill, danced during a holiday weekend in a busy shopping mall, and danced around [...]

Words that describe this year’s Modern Atlanta Dance Festival: steel-willed and intensely committed, open-hearted, gracious and playful. Blake Dalton’s solo that ends CORE Performance Company’s “The Moment Between” summed it up. With resonant voice and resilient motion, he narrated a poem, an artist’s statement on giving his life over to his art. As if throwing [...]

GloATL has no more safety nets. As dance-maker Lauri Stallings prepares “Chapter III: This Is a World,” her collaborative performance group is taking greater risks, but not by ambushing a crowded mall or infiltrating a city park. These are more personal, creative risks, taken within the confines of a refuge, den or nest. They’ll reveal [...]

WonderRoot will widen its embrace when six independent choreographers show new works in “Magnetic Drift, a Contemporary Dance Concert.” The community arts organization’s first dance production will open at the Magnetic Theater in Reynoldstown on Friday, May 6, and run through the weekend. WonderRoot’s move to include dance among the arts it serves expands its [...]

People walked out of Merce Cunningham’s concerts for decades. His choreography defied conventions and required audiences to experience dance as abstract art, without narrative or emotional motivation. Jonah Bokaer’s “FILTER” brought out some of the same response as his mentor’s work Saturday at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center of the Arts, though Bokaer’s approach to integrated media is completely different. [...]

Shaping a contemporary, kinetic, edgy new profile means stepping out on limb, taking risks, stretching, discovering new patterns of thought and motion, pushing the body and mind to its limits. Such was Atlanta Ballet’s spring mixed repertory performance, “Fusion,” which felt like a breakthrough for the company. Works by Helen Pickett, Christopher Hampson and Val [...]