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Camille LeFevre

Camille LeFevre is a freelance arts journalist and editor, dance critic and dance scholar, whose criticism and essays on the performing arts, music, architecture, design, business and the environment have appeared in such publications as Metropolis, Architectural Record, Audubon, Utne Reader, Minnesota Magazine, The Rake and Architecture Minnesota. Read more about Camille at CamilleLeFevre.com.

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Arts & Culture

Three shows, three evenings, a full dance card

By Camille LeFevre | 02/05/08
For dance aficionados like me, this coming weekend promises heaven: three professional dance performances — wildly diverse in style, intent, content and production values — on three different stages.
Arts & Culture

The 'female gaze' makes men dance a bit

By Camille LeFevre | 01/15/08
In 1975, British avant-garde filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey published an essay titled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," in which she introduced the concept of the "male gaze." Academia, art and popular culture have not been the same si
Politics & Policy

Diving and dancing into the 'Wreck'

By Camille LeFevre | 01/08/08
A new work by choreographer Carl Flink and his Black Label Movement dance company deals with what happens emotionally and physically when people are trapped inside a watertight compartment of an ore boat resting at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Arts & Culture

Walker's 20th 'Out There' moves toward future

By Camille LeFevre | 01/03/08
Two performances will get me to the Walker Art Center's Out There series running Jan. 9 through Feb. 2.
Politics & Policy

Holiday shows: 'Tis the season to break even

By Camille LeFevre | 12/14/07
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Arts & Culture

Pared down to perfection: 'Flying Feet-Percussion Project'

By Camille LeFevre | 12/06/07
The way Joe Chvala tells the story behind "Flying Feet — The Percussion Project," he and his dance company wanted to "create a bare-bones show we could tour." Bare-bones, in this case, is three people in a show that opens the Hit It!
Arts & Culture

Zenon at 25: dancing the decades away

By Camille LeFevre | 11/29/07
As a fledgling dance writer, I cut my teeth on Zenon Dance Company. The metaphor is apt because for 25 years, the jazz- and modern-dance repertory troupe—under the laser-beam direction of Linda Z.
Politics & Policy

From eye candy to heavier fare at TU Dance

By Camille LeFevre | 11/15/07
By Camille LeFevre | Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 Artistic director and choreographer Uri Sands balances crowd-pleasers and masterworks in his fast-growing body of work for the 2-year-old company.
Arts & Culture

Toe to toe, Twin Cities dance community measures up

By Camille LeFevre | 11/13/07
Several years ago, Minnesota Public Radio was broadcasting a show on the state of the arts in Minnesota when a guy called in and, quite incredulously, barked, "We've got a dance community? I've never heard of a dance community here.