Too Good to be True
When we think of countries that have shaped the world of dance our mind will often drift to the United States, Russia, or Germany. But what of Luxembourg?
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Happy Days
The programme of the Paris Opera Ballet School’s annual show for 2026 is shaped by a return to origins. Compared with recent editions, what stands out is its pronounced tendency to look backwards, less through canonical classics than through the recreation of an idealised past.
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Here's to You, Morricone
Aterballetto, the main contemporary company in Italy (now a national choreographic centre), made a hit two years commissioning a new creation by Marcos Morau: “Notte Morricone” (Morricone Night). The Spanish director and choreographer has become one of the most in demand dance
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Growing up in British Columbia’s Okanagan region with two mothers, the Canadian choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe learned about the European side of his heritage, participating in Ukrainian folk dance from age six.
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A Dream Life
March in Hong Kong concluded with an extraordinary week of flowers. In Victoria Park, the annual Hong Kong Flower Show was pitched.
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Hearts and Arrows
The work of the late Frederick Ashton is less often revived in the United States than it is in Great Britain.
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Looking Forward
In times of rapid change, predicting the road ahead can seem to be a fool’s errand. But on a spring afternoon at Lincoln Center, I feel confident in this assertion: the future of dance is very bright.
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Happy Days
The programme of the Paris Opera Ballet School’s annual show for 2026 is shaped by a return to origins. Compared with recent editions, what stands out is its pronounced tendency to look backwards, less through canonical classics than through the recreation of an idealised past.
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Here's to You, Morricone
Aterballetto, the main contemporary company in Italy (now a national choreographic centre), made a hit two years commissioning a new creation by Marcos Morau: “Notte Morricone” (Morricone Night). The Spanish director and choreographer has become one of the most in demand dance
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Growing up in British Columbia’s Okanagan region with two mothers, the Canadian choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe learned about the European side of his heritage, participating in Ukrainian folk dance from age...
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A Dream Life
March in Hong Kong concluded with an extraordinary week of flowers. In Victoria Park, the annual Hong Kong Flower Show was pitched.
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Hearts and Arrows
The work of the late Frederick Ashton is less often revived in the United States than it is in Great Britain.
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Dance on their own Terms
For its upcoming New York City Center season (April 23-26, 2026), Ballet Hispánico will present “Mujeres: Women in Motion,” programming that centers on Latina women who are shaping the language of dance.
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Bright Stars
Misty Copeland makes an observation. “I see,” she says, looking into the audience packed with attendees in formalwear, “a lot of people who care about ballet.”
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Chamber music can be fun, too! That, at least, is the apparent message that violinist Johnny Gandelsman is trying to spread in his two-hour program, “Johnny Loves Johann.” He’s certainly...
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For Old Times’ Sake
What makes a story stick across not just decades, but millennia? The longevity of ancient Greek drama points to an innate essentiality, but the variations of these works, too, have played a critical role in its durability.
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Stepping on the Right Path
“We are in a shambles.” This is the headline statement for Catherine Young’s touring work “Ciseach | An Embodied Manifesto” which will make its way through Ireland at a time when it is perhaps needed most.
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Double Happiness
Five years ago Oakland Ballet launched its Dancing Moons Festival as a way to highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander choreographers in response to the surge of anti-AAPI hate during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Healing Together
Gibney Company’s season at the Joyce Theater was full of common threads, promising beginnings, and lingering energy.
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It seems fitting that as the world held its collective breath over violent threats from the US White House, the Martha Graham Dance Company would perform “Chronicle,” an anti-war statement...
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Ballet in the City with Joshua Beamish
Perhaps best known for touring with New York City Ballet associate artistic director Wendy Whelan in her show “Restless Creature,” Joshua Beamish grew up dancing in his Canadian hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, founding his own company when he was just 17.
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Emotionality Unbound
Ballet Unbound” was a diverse mixed repertory program that landed squarely in Ohio Contemporary Ballet’s sweet spot as a company presenting classical modern dance, and neo-classical and contemporary ballet works.
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Toward a More Perfect Union
It is a strange time to be celebrating our nation’s milestone birthday, our semiquincentennial.
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Everything Under Control
It’s hard to predict where Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will go next. Literally. Through the repertoire selections presented in the company’s two-week run at the Joyce Theater, the dancers demonstrate a particular aptitude for moving in a way that’s endlessly surprising.
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“The Juniper Tree” is a macabre fairy tale involving three feminine archetypes: mother, stepmother, daughter.
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