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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 opportunity to preview a wide range of choreography.
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.
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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...
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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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.
Continue Reading
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.
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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.
Continue Reading
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.
Continue Reading
The 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.”
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This summer, hidden within the red brick warehouses and graffitied construction panels of industrial East Williamsburg, Brooklyn lay a secret garden.
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Ballet 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.
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Sprinkled 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...
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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 the company.
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The theme driving Misty Copeland’s curation of the Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival was “to center Black, Brown, and Queer artists.”
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My first two shows at this year’s Dance Base as part of the Edinburgh Fringe show the consummate taste of artistic director Tony Mills. Two brilliant young companies from the Basque Country perform very different, but no less thrilling, work.
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When dance happens in non-traditional spaces, it can change the way it is seen and experienced. As Leonard Cohen said about the cracks in everything, “that’s where the light gets in.”
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“Ballet: the New Classic,” brainchild of fashion photographer Yumiko Inoue and K-Ballet Tokyo associate artist, Shohei Horiuchi, combines haute couture with innovative dance. Like sculpture in motion, it’s their third...
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What should ballet look like? From the eight pieces that compose the first program of Misty Copeland’s curation for the Joyce Theater’s annual Ballet Festival, this much is clear: there’s no one single answer.
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Old and new generations intersect each other in the city of Venice. This is true for dance as well, which had the lagoon city as a picturesque backdrop this summer for the Biennale Danza, where poetry and intellectual excellence are still preserved in its artistic offerings, even under the siege of tourism.
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It starts with a tiny, barely noticed jerk of a hand or arm. Just one simple gesture, and then all hell breaks loose. TF Cia de Dança brings what has to be one of the most frenzied, sweaty pieces of dance to the Edinburgh Festival.
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Part of artistic director Tony Mills’ remit at Dance Base is to seek out wonderful dance artists from across the world. This year, two sets of performances from Detours Festival, Brussels have been specially selected by Mills to perform in Edinburgh.
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For the final event of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City outdoor Dance Encounters series, Butoh artist Vangeline performed the newly commissioned work “Naiad Metal” in the Paul Milstein Reflecting...
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