Dancing over Ashes
Rosalind Crisp on DIRt (Dance In Regional disasTer zones) and how dance and collaborative arts practice might respond to the unfolding...
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Show and Tell
The Guggenheim Museum’s beloved behind-the-scenes New York dance series, Works & Process, was founded in 1984 by philanthropist Mary Sharp...
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Moving Mountains
Batsheva Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin, who led the troupe from 1990 until 2019 (he’s currently...
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The Me of Today
The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky reflects on the war in Ukraine, the connection between geopolitics and ballet, and joining the house...
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Bringing dance history to life
For novelists Eliza Knight, Barbara Quick, and Cathy Marie Buchanan, historical fiction became a window into these subtleties, allowing them...
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Stepping Up
Ilter Ibrahimof is the cofounder and artistic director of Toronto’s Fall for Dance North festival. Held annually since 2014, FFDN...
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The Day After
For thirteen years, from 2011 until this summer of 2023, Virginia Johnson was Dance Theatre of Harlem’s artistic director.
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Mark Morris Makes History
When Mark Morris Dance Group comes to the Joyce Theater August 1-12, the two-week engagement will be one for the...
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Sketches of Scotland
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of catching a perfectly shaped, humorous dance vignette of two dancers with...
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Finding Frida Khalo
From the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and Ballet Hispánico, to the Royal Ballet of Flanders and Danza Contemporanea de Cuba,...
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Narratives for the Current Moment
“That was beautiful, but I didn’t get it,” was a refrain Brett Ishida got used to hearing in the audience...
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New Romance
Talk about a radical retelling of a classic story! In Benjamin Millepied’s “Romeo & Juliet Suite,” performed by members of...
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