Best Dance Company
Jane Franklin Dance
Jane Franklin doesn’t sweat the technique: Her choreography is always lovely and expansive, but it’s never flashy enough to be distracting. Maybe that’s a function of Franklin’s wry and perverse sense of humor bubbling beneath the surface of each of her pieces. Or maybe it’s because she never seems content to let her audiences simply savor the beauty of the dancers in motion: Bodies become cogs in the machinery (as in Temporal Interference) or alternate instruments (as in this year’s impressive Sound Walk) or, really, anything but bodies. Sometimes Franklin seems more like a composer than a choreographer, frequently breaking her pieces into separate “movements,” each with its own funky rhythm. Of course, modern dance has very few rules, and Franklin breaks all of ’em. —NG, Washington City Paper, Best of DC 2008
3.1.2010 Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue – Jane Franklin profile
2.21.10 Washington Post Magazine Going Out Guide Best Bet
12.18.09 Writing Without Paper
12.11.09 Washington Post Weekend – Going Out Guide Pick
12.06.09 Going Out Guide Best Bet, Washington Post Magazine
4.24.09 Washington Post Weekend Highlights
4.19.09 Washington Post Style on the Go
1.8.09 Washington Post Express Night Out
12.4.08 Washington Post Express
11.25.08 Washington City Paper
10.08 Northern Virginia Magazine
10.3.08 Washington Post Weekend
10.3.08 Washington Post Preview City Guide
Express Night Out – Sept 25, 2008
Express Night Out – Fall Arts Preview 2008
5.30-6.5.08 Washington City Paper – What’s Your Problem?
4.18-24.08 Washington City Paper Best of DC 2008
2.29.08 – Style of the Go, The Washington Post
2.28.08 – Connection Newspapers
2.28.08 – The Washington Post Express
2.13.08 – Express Night Out – Spring Arts Preview
10.2.07 – Washington Post, DC XIII Improvisation Festival
9.12.07 – Dance Charlotte! Sept 6 performance at the Charlotte Dance Festival in NC
May 13 Our Picks – Sunday Source, Washington Post
March 1, 2007 Washington City Paper
January 2007 Washington City Paper
Apr 2005 Washington Post Preview
Jan 2005 Washington Post Preview
Click here to read a review by Karren Allenier.
January 8, 2004, Washington Post article
June 26, 2003, Washington Post article