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Heartache, on Repeat
SCREEN DANCE | Sarah Elgart

Heartache, on Repeat

With a soundtrack of crashing ocean waves, the opening 30 seconds of the stunning dance short Heartache codirected by Iker Karrera and Alberto D. Centeno delivers a series of singular and seemingly random yet intriguing images that lure the viewer in: A shirtless man, unsteady on his feet, flailing as he attempts to make his way up the staircase of an old building. A pair of legs seated on a bench—their owner hidden by the camera angle. An upstairs POV looking down on a huge, mysteriously beautiful, and darkened room empty of any furnishings, with old and muted walls of peeling...

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R.A.I.N Dance
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

R.A.I.N Dance

What form might radical compassion take? If you tease apart an acronym for cultivating mindfulness, and allow a herd of horses to gallop through the middle, what might arise?

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Channeling Sinéad

Channeling Sinéad

So often, dancers are treated as vessels for a choreographer’s vision. Movements are imprinted on their bodies and they must, to the best of their abilities, convince the audience that...

Performance

“The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor” by Sonya Tayeh

Place

The Joyce Theater, New York, NY, September 17, 2026

Words

Sophie Bress

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Flamenco Deities
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Flamenco Deities

There’s hot, and then there’s blistering, as was evidenced when “Flamenco! María Bermúdez Convivencias,” was presented to the nearly sold-out crowd at the Ford on Saturday night.

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Reemergence

Reemergence

In the first half of tonight’s double bill by Scottish Ballet, Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang whacks her drums with such force, she breaks her drumstick.

Performance

Scottish Ballet: “Entress” by Julia Cheng / “Emergence” by Crystal Pite

Place

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, September 10, 2026

Words

Claire Sawers

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High Notes
REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

High Notes

Honoring three choreographic greats of the twentieth century, the triple bill for K-Ballet Tokyo’s 2026 Selections hit only the high notes.

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A Tokyo Gala
REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

A Tokyo Gala

The National Ballet of Japan hosted their annual Ballet Asteras recently, inviting Japanese dancers from around the globe for a special gala of dance. As usual, it also provided an opportunity to preview a wide range of choreography. 

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Suki Schorer, Milonguera

Suki Schorer, Milonguera

When Suki Schorer—since 1998, the occupant of the School of American Ballet (SAB)’s Brown Foundation Senior Faculty Chair—approaches the barre to show a movement detail to a student, or strides...

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Look up, New York!
FEATURES | Sophie Bress

Look up, New York!

Citizen Arts International co-founder Natalie Rine hopes that the organization’s inaugural event, the Citizen Arts International Festival, will make New Yorkers to look up.

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Centre of Gravity
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Centre of Gravity

Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world,” and whether it is something to “resist, surrender to, suspend or redefine,” it is a necessary condition of us.

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Spacial Awareness
REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Spacial Awareness

On the final weekend of August, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presented Anna Sperber’s Bessie award-winning dance “Bow Echo” during the opening day of its 2026 Annual Festival.

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Harvest Time

Harvest Time

There is site-specific dance—think Trisha Brown’s 1970 groundbreaking work, “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building”—and then there’s Sarah Gordon Butler’s “Hay Rake Ballet.”

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