Coup Versus Calamity
Of the many stylish touches in Scottish Ballet’s “Mary, Queen of Scots,” the titular Tudor’s black pointe shoes are my favourite.
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Coup Versus Calamity
Of the many stylish touches in Scottish Ballet’s “Mary, Queen of Scots,” the titular Tudor’s black pointe shoes are my favourite.
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Heartfelt Moments
The Australian Ballet’s “Signature Works,” as a whole, is a compact and varied celebration of dance in the moment.
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The Joffrey Ballet’s lithe and strong dancers take on four historic works in this mixed-bill “American Icons” programme.
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Changing Times
In Trisha Brown's 1983 “Set and Reset,” dancers float in and out of the wings like bubbles.
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Glitter Revolution
Talk about perfection! While the countdown is on, as Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the world-class Los Angeles Philharmonic, prepares to exit the stage for the New York Philharmonic (a big boohoo), his presence last weekend at Walt Disney Concert Hall further cemented his status as musical genius, tastemaker and...
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Heartfelt Moments
The Australian Ballet’s “Signature Works,” as a whole, is a compact and varied celebration of dance in the moment.
Continue Reading
American Icons
The Joffrey Ballet’s lithe and strong dancers take on four historic works in this mixed-bill “American Icons” programme.
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Changing Times
In Trisha Brown's 1983 “Set and Reset,” dancers float in and out of the wings like bubbles.
Continue ReadingGlitter Revolution
Talk about perfection! While the countdown is on, as Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the world-class Los Angeles Philharmonic, prepares to exit the stage for the New York Philharmonic (a...
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Channeling Electricity
Whether it resembles the slow, building roll of distant thunder or the immediacy of an overhead lightning storm, flamenco is electric. This energy, however, is an intimate one, and one that benefits greatly from proximity.
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Winter Games
This winter has been one of the wintriest in recent New York City memory. Between the unnavigable mounds of dirty snow at every intersection, dangerous patches of black ice, multiple days of subzero temperatures, power outages, and frozen pipes, there has also been the bone-chilling rise of authoritarianism in America.
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Condors in Flight
Based in Tokyo, Condors is an all-male contemporary dance troupe founded by director and choreographer Ryohei Kondo in 1996. In their 30th year, the company retains all their original members with a few new additions.
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All is Vanity
Liv Lorent MBE is a gal I relate to, a choreographer with a penchant for the gothic, drawing upon the duality of traditions within narrative dance: the grand guignol and the sentimental.
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One thing that I love about the Firebird is that she is the hero,” said Catherine Hurlin, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, in a Zoom interview on a...
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Bringing Timelines to Light
British choreographer Jaivant Patel has intersectionality at his core. He trained at the Northern School for Contemporary Dance and then went on to learn from Nahid Siddiqui, a global exponent of Kathak.
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Location, Location, Location
It was perhaps on Instagram some five or six years ago when I first came across the dance films of Benjamin Seroussi.
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Notes from the Underground
Beneath my feet, thousands upon thousands of tiny threads in the soil transmit messages and nutrients, actions and behaviours.
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Winners and Some Questions
The Prix de Lausanne 2026 crowned fourteen young dancers in its finale held at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, selected from 78 candidates who took part in the competition’s selection rounds. The jury this year was presided over by Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of the Royal Ballet.
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Lights go up on three dancers who sit side by side on the floor in a far corner of the stage, legs outstretched, soles of their bare feet delightfully exposed....
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Together Apart
Mesmerizing to watch? Or commentary on life versus machine? The program performed by Lyon Opera Ballet at New York’s City Center is both. Merce Cunningham’s “Biped” (1999) features a double cast—one of human dancers, and another of computer generated figures.
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A Dance for All
Company Grande, a new dance theater project from the Saitama Arts Foundation triumphed in their recent production, “The Rite of Spring.”
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New Kids on the Block
In the second week of February, an ensemble of young and remarkably accomplished dancers presented a lovely and generously conceived programme just beyond the Paris city limits, at the Théâtre des Sablons in Neuilly-sur-Seine, as part of a tour spanning not only several French cities but also Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia. The evening unfolded as a carefully balanced succession of styles, allowing the dancers to reveal both technical assurance and interpretative maturity. Overall, the cohesion of the ensemble and the clarity of their stage presence matched those of an established professional company. Yet this was not, strictly speaking, the...
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Hervé Koubi: Dance and Defiance
With their inimitable blend of contemporary movement and the no-holds barred athleticism of hip-hop and the meticulousness of martial arts, Compagnie Hervé Koubi creates a visual language unlike any other.
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Oh to love and be loved, what a beautiful mess it is. Nobody captures the contradictions of passion quite like Pina Bausch, whose “Sweet Mambo” is cast in her signature...
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