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Mother of Creation
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Mother of Creation

What drives the creative force in the universe? What impels motherhood? These are some of the questions that provoked the bold and colorful work that unfolded onstage as Gallim premiered “Mother” at the Joyce the first week of November.

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Birds of a Feather
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Birds of a Feather

Bird-themed dances are nothing new. In addition to the likes of “Swan Lake” (in its numerous iterations, Hello, Matthew Bourne!), “The Firebird” and “The Dying Swan,” there was also Merce Cunningham’s 1991 “Beach Birds.”

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Wild Child
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Wild Child

Juliana F. May’s “Optimistic Voices,” which premiered last week at BAM Fisher, was pitched as an exploration of the “tangled contradictions of family, eroticism, and motherhood.”

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Pulling Back the Curtain

Pulling Back the Curtain

In the summer of 2007, writer Stephen Manes, known for his best-selling Bill Gates biography, over thirty books for young adults and children, and for his work as a technology...

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The Game is On
REVIEWS | Steve Sucato

The Game is On

Move over, Matthew Bourne, there is a new voice in theatrical dance plays. Choreographer Penny Saunders' bespoke production of “Sherlock,” performed by Grand Rapids Ballet, was not only a triumph in bringing literature’s favorite super sleuth to the stage in dance form, but is an early contender as one of the 2025-26 dance season’s very best.

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Matters of the Heart
REVIEWS | Róisín O'Brien

Matters of the Heart

On the night of Halloween in South Bend, Indiana, I weave through costumed partygoers as I make my way to a special double bill at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

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To the Beat of the Drum
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

To the Beat of the Drum

This fall, Japan Society is celebrating the centenary of legendary Japanese post-war author Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) with a series of works in theater, film, and dance inspired by his oeuvre.

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Home Lands
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Home Lands

Powerhouse: International, the newly launched arts festival in Gowanus, Brooklyn, continued its fall offerings with the multidisciplinary work “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna,” co-presented with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing the Line Festival.

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Past Lives, Future Selves

Past Lives, Future Selves

In an animation that is woven through the performances of traditional dances in Indigenous Enterprise’s “Still Here,” a young boy watches a video of powwow musicians and dancers with his...

Performance

Indigenous Enterprise’s “Still Here” / Raushan Mitchell and Silas Riener’s “Open Machine” / Eiko Otake and Wen Hui's “What is War”

Place

The Joyce Theater, September 16-21 / BAM Fisher as part of Next Wave festival October 21-25 / NYU Skirball September 19-20, New York, 2025

Words

Candice Thompson

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ABT, Past, Present, and Future
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

ABT, Past, Present, and Future

The final program of American Ballet Theatre’s fall season, titled “Innovations Past and Present,” featured the world premiere of Juliano Nunes “Have We Met!?” as well as two company gems: Alexei Ratmansky’s “Serenade after Plato’s Symposium” and George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations.” 

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Defining Connection

Defining Connection

In a series called “Just Dance” on Nowness—a site I sometimes visit to see what’s up in the world of “genre busting” dance films that make it onto this stylized...

Performance

What We Were directed by Kate Collins and choreographed by Evan Sagadencky

Place

Nowness

Words

Sarah Elgart

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Complex Female Characters
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Complex Female Characters

When Richard Move enters from stage left, their presence is already monumental. In a long-sleeved gown, a wig swept in a dramatic topnot, and their eyes lined in striking swoops, the artist presents themself in the likeness of Martha Graham—though standing at 6’4, they have more than a foot on the late modern dance pioneer.  

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Ultimate Release
REVIEWS | Steven Sucato

Ultimate Release

Perhaps not since Mikhail Fokine’s 1905 iconic “The Dying Swan” has there been as haunting a solo dance depiction of avian death as Aakash Odedra Company’s “Songs of the Bulbul” (2024).

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Weighty Issues
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Weighty Issues

Dance, at its best, captures nuance particularly well, allowing us to feel deeply and purely. In its wordlessness, it places a primal reliance on movement and embodied knowledge as communication all its own. It can speak directly from the body to the heart, bypassing the brain’s drive to “make sense of.”

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Modern Figures

Modern Figures

“Racines”—meaning roots—stands as the counterbalance to “Giselle,” the two ballets opening the Paris Opera Ballet’s season this year.

Performance

Paris Opera Ballet: George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations,” Mthuthuzeli November’s “Rhapsodies,” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “Corybantic Games”

Place

Opera Bastille, Paris, France, October 23,2025

Words

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

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