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Journey into Worlds
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Journey into Worlds

According to her program notes, Sharon Chohi Kim was inspired by murmurations—“both spontaneous flocks of starlings and a collection of low, continuous sounds”—in her premiere (one-night only) of the same name.

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House of Trajal Harrell
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

House of Trajal Harrell

We enter the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory to an oblong stage area flanked by seating on the long sides, emulating the sightline of Anna Wintour and her corps of high couture fashionistas at Fashion Week.

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London City Ballet
REVIEWS | Phoebe Roberts

London City Ballet

London City Ballet returned to Sadler’s Wells last weekend with a programme of rarely seen works by Balanchine, Ratmansky, Scarlett, and Melac. Still in the early stages of its revival—the company originally folded in 1996 and relaunched just last year—it was a daring offering, and one that more than delivered.

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Beauty and Bravura under the Stars
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Beauty and Bravura under the Stars

It was a picture-perfect evening at the Hollywood Bowl for music and dance under the stars. The last concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s classical series, it was to have featured conductor and former Dudamel Fellow, Jonathan Heyward, but the Franco-British maestra, Stephanie Childress, led the ensemble instead.

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Beyond the Music
REVIEWS | Robert Steven Mack

Beyond the Music

The life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky does not lack melodramatic potential. The composer of ballet classics such as “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” was celebrated by Imperial Russia for his compositions yet simultaneously forced to hide his homosexuality.

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Squaring the Circle
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

Squaring the Circle

I’m not weathering well. Are you? Individually and globally, it seems to me the last five years left many of us in a vague sort of freefall, in a theatrum mundi that becomes more and more desperate.

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Under the Milky Way
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Under the Milky Way

Look up at the night sky, and the stars can tell you when to seed, harvest, and fish. The overhead knowledge system heralds seasonal change, and allows you to read the weather forecast.

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Opportunity Cost
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Opportunity Cost

After a decade spent in Los Angeles, Danielle Agami, who founded Ate9 in Seattle in 2012, abruptly decamped for Europe in 2023, leaving somewhat of a gap in the local dance community.

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No Time for a Tango
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

No Time for a Tango

Two men enter the stage and hang suit jackets on the backs of chairs. They begin with a short movement phrase in staccato unison—an elbow juts over the shoulder as if an arrow sticking out of a quiver, then an arm slices cross-body like a sword.

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