Washington City Paper Best of DC – 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.” — Nick Green (PDF)
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2021
- 1.21.2021 Metro Weekly or online
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- 3.18.2021 Metro Weekly
2020
- 10.29.2020 Metro Weekly or online
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- 5.15.2020 Washington Post
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2019
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- 7.2.2019 WAMU 88.5
- 6.19.2019 DC Theatre Scene
- 4.23.2019 Embracing Arlington Arts
- 2.21.2019 Metro Weekly
- 2.6.2019 DCMetroTheaterArts
- 1.23.2019 Dance Informa
2018
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- 10.19.2018 Dance MetroDC
- 7.21.2018 DC Theatre Scene
- 10.19.2018 Dance MetroDC
- 4.14.2018 DCMetroTheaterArts
- 4.11.2018 TASSC International
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- 2.08.2018 Shakespeare Theatre Company
2017
- 10.24.2017 Embracing Arlington Arts
- 7.13.2017 DCMetroTheaterArts BEST OF THE 2017 CAPITAL FRINGE!
- 3.30.2017 MetroWeekly
- 2.24.2017 WERA 96.7 Karin’s Calendar
2016
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- 7.9.2016 DCMetroTheaterArts BEST OF THE 2016 CAPITAL FRINGE!
- 6.21.2016 DC Theatre Scene Preview
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2015
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- 7.27.2015 DCMetroTheaterArts Capital Fringe Honors “Favorite Dance & Physical Theater” and “Favorite Shows of the Fringe”
- 7.17.2015 DC MetroTheaterArts BEST OF THE 2015 CAPITAL FRINGE!
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- Mar/Apr 2015 Ngoma Reader, pg 7 – 13
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2014
Capital Fringe Festival 2014: Blue Moon/Red River
- 7.14.2014 DC Theatre Scene.com
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- 7.11.2014 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
- 7.10.2014 Going Out Guide Washington Post
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- 5.27.2014 Fringe Artist Interview
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10.28.2014 Northern Virginia Magazine
3.27.2014 Washington Post Local Living2013
5.2.2013 The Washington Post Going Out Guide
3.1.2013 DC Metro Theatre & Arts
1.22.2013 Arlington Connection2012
8.3.2012 FM99.1 // Cute Animals Audio 1 // Audio 2
2011
11.4.2011 Washington Post Weekend
10.19.2011 The Washington Post Going Out Guide
10.7.2011 The Washington Post
9.28.2011 The Washington Post Nightlife Agenda
9.23.2011 Arts Post
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5.7.2011 AAUW Elizabeth Campbell Award
5.5.2011 The Washington Post Alexandria/Arlington Extra
3.31.2011 The Washington Post
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11.19.10 Washington City Paper
10.28.10 Traveling Among the Arts – Reston Patch
9.30.10 Arlington Connection
9.20.10 Del Ray Patch
6.16.10 Inside the “Artistic Blind Date” with Jane Franklin
4.11.10 AllArtsReview4U
3.7.10 Widening the I
3.1.10 Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue – Jane Franklin profile
2.27.10 allartsreview4u
2.2010 Dance Spirit Magazine2009
12.26.09 Turning Pointe Press
12.18.09 Writing Without Paper
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3.21.09 AllArtsReview4U
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10.08 Northern Virginia Magazine
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6.23.08 All Arts Review 4U
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10.2.07 – Washington Post, DC XIII Improvisation Festival
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1.3.03 The Washington Post
2003 American Composers Forum
