Hannah Land is a poet, playwright, and performing arts critic. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Pangyrus Literary Magazine, Sick Magazine, Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine, and The Hunger Journal, and her debut chapbook The Body Myth will be published in 2022.
Ragamala Dance Company’s Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim is a beautiful, meditative piece that makes the most of the Kennedy Center’s new outdoor space on the REACH campus.
The Keegan Theatre's The Baltimore Waltz is a confrontation of mortality, a hilarious farce, an expose of the limits of the medical system, a noir thriller, and crucially, a flawlessly staged and acted production.
The American Ballet Theatre's current program at the Kennedy Center, featuring works by Ratmansky, Robbins, Millepied, and Wheeldon (as well as the full-length Whipped Cream, not covered in this review), is extremely well done but a little uninspiring.