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Dance review

Exploring, in movement, the performer’s role

By Valerie Gladstone

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 15, 2012

The sound of laughter echoes in the large uptown studio where choreographer Monica Bill Barnes is rehearsing “Everything is Getting Better All the Time.’’ The piece is part of a program Barnes’s company is bringing to the Institute of Contemporary Art Friday and Saturday, so she and her dancers have placed their boots and shoes around the perimeter to mark off the size of the ICA stage. Unintentionally, they’ve made it look like the setting for a garage sale, which cracks them up.

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