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Dance Review

Barnes’s debut is challenging and playful

By Karen Campbell

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 21, 2012

Monica Bill Barnes revels in the inherent theatricality of everyday life. But the dramas in her quirky, enigmatic choreography tend to be contextually vague. You might you laugh out loud one moment then quickly wonder, “Wait, was that supposed to be funny?’’ These quick, sometimes subtle shifts of tone can give viewers emotional whiplash and sap cohesion, but they also imbue dances with a richness and ambiguity that entertains as well as challenges.

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