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Intimacy and Infinity
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Intimacy and Infinity

The Wade Thompson Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory is a yawning, cavernous space. In its depths, even the fiercest applause can be rendered a mere din, sounding hollow and unappreciative.

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Low Tide
REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Low Tide

Noé Soulier’s “The Waves” ran for two nights at the Joyce Theater in early March as part of the Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels.

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Tragic Beauty
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Tragic Beauty

Where language falls silent, dance speaks. That is the case for balletic interpretations of Shakespeare’s great works—particularly Lar Lubovitch’s three-act “Othello,” choreographed for American Ballet Theatre in 1997.

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A Grand Swan Lake
REVIEWS | Steve Sucato

A Grand Swan Lake

Like most new adaptations of existing story ballet classics, the world premiere of artistic director James Sofranko’s “Swan Lake” for Grand Rapids Ballet retained the bones of the original it was based on.

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Family Feud
REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

Family Feud

Shakespearean purists, leave your expectations at the door. With his rendition of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet,” first staged in 2009 to mark the 10th anniversary of K-Ballet Tokyo, Tetsuya Kumakawa plays freely with details from Shakespeare’s tragedy to create a psychological, theatrical study of doomed love.

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Facing the Music
REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

Facing the Music

From charming stagings for children to edgy dance theater, Un Yamada Company, a creative collective based in Tokyo, has built a reputation for consistently innovative productions.

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Video Games
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Video Games

For much of “Romeo & Juliet Suite,” Benjamin Millepied’s stripped-down take on the Sergei Prokofiev ballet—billed as a gender-bent, “contemporary, site-specific” version of Shakespeare’s classic—I find myself thinking of a different play by the bard. Specifically, the direction in The Winter’s Tale: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Most of the drama here, after all, happens offstage.

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Coded Messages
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

Coded Messages

Montreal based choreographer and artistic director, Virginie Brunelle’s eponymously named company performed its 2022 “Fables” at Penn Live Arts Zellerbach Theatre series on the brink of Women’s History month.

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New Wave
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

New Wave

What distinguishes a dancer from a choreographer? This is, in the end, an empirical question, one that can only be answered in the theatre.

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Americans in Paris
REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Americans in Paris

There is something charmingly didactic and intellectually generous about American dance companies touring Europe. At the start of a performance, it is not unusual for a director to step forward and offer a brief introduction, explaining the reasons for the tour and sketching the wider context of the programme. Paris audiences experienced this with the Martha Graham Dance Company last autumn, and now again with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Robert Garland, at the helm of the ensemble, took a moment to anchor the performance in lineage, recalling the company’s origins and its illustrious founder, Arthur Mitchell. As Garland recounted, Mitchell...

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