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 they believe.
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Like Eve with the apple, the story of Pandora’s box hinges on a clear divide—the ideal before and the sullied after.
Continue ReadingIt hasn’t taken Ingrid Silva long to establish herself as an exciting emerging choreographic talent.
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Founded in 2012, the Malpaso Dance Company of Cuba has toured internationally to great acclaim, with its unique mission of showcasing the best of international contemporary dance repertory while nurturing new Cuban choreographic voices.
Continue ReadingIn 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.
Continue ReadingWho doesn’t love a little Gershwin on a hot, humid night in the Cahuenga Pass, i.e., the Hollywood Bowl?
Continue ReadingSo 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 they believe.
Continue ReadingThere’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.
Continue ReadingLike Eve with the apple, the story of Pandora’s box hinges on a clear divide—the ideal before and the sullied after.
Continue ReadingIt hasn’t taken Ingrid Silva long to establish herself as an exciting emerging choreographic talent.
Continue Reading
Founded in 2012, the Malpaso Dance Company of Cuba has toured internationally to great acclaim, with its unique mission of showcasing the best of international contemporary dance repertory while nurturing...
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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.
Continue ReadingWho doesn’t love a little Gershwin on a hot, humid night in the Cahuenga Pass, i.e., the Hollywood Bowl?
Continue ReadingThis winter, the UK premiere of “Cinderella” is being brought to vivid life in a new production by Northern Ballet.
Continue ReadingHonoring 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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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...
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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 to the side of the stage during a rehearsal to get a better perspective on a passage of choreography, she is taking steps on behalf of others.
Continue ReadingCitizen 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.
Continue ReadingGravity, 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.
Continue ReadingThe traditional striped kabuki curtain of black, persimmon and green hangs tattered and faded. It’s our first hint of destruction.
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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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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.”
Continue ReadingThis summer, hidden within the red brick warehouses and graffitied construction panels of industrial East Williamsburg, Brooklyn lay a secret garden.
Continue ReadingBallet X gave a performance of “The Four Seasons Reimagined” on June 11, 2026, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in a premiere week that began at its home base in Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann.
Continue ReadingSprinkled throughout Liz Lerman’s most recent book, Shape and Momentum, are references to witches. They are our companions and guides, and they come bearing spells and poetry culled from Lerman’s 10-year choreographic project, “Wicked Bodies.”
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Scottish Ballet’s artistic director Christopher Hampson CBE has long been a champion of storytelling from a completely unique perspective. So too, with These Violent Delights: the first feature-length film from...
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