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Heartache, on Repeat

With a soundtrack of crashing ocean waves, the opening 30 seconds of the stunning dance short Heartache codirected by Iker Karrera and Alberto D. Centeno delivers a series of singular and seemingly random yet intriguing images that lure the viewer in: A shirtless man, unsteady on his feet, flailing as he attempts to make his way up the staircase of an old building. A pair of legs seated on a bench—their owner hidden by the camera angle. An upstairs POV looking down on a huge, mysteriously beautiful, and darkened room empty of any furnishings, with old and muted walls of peeling...

REVIEWS | Steve Sucato

Winning Works

BalletMet has joined the ranks of ballet companies who have added a choreographic competition to their season.

REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

R.A.I.N Dance

What form might radical compassion take? If you tease apart an acronym for cultivating mindfulness, and allow a herd of horses to gallop through the middle, what might arise?

REVIEWS | Sara Beale

Tomorrow’s Hopes

There’s not a whole lot that’s new in this programme of new works from Alvin Ailey, which I mean in the best way possible.

REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Channeling Sinéad

So often, dancers are treated as vessels for a choreographer’s vision. Movements are imprinted on their bodies and they must, to the best of their abilities, convince the audience that they believe.

REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Flamenco Deities

There’s hot, and then there’s blistering, as was evidenced when “Flamenco! María Bermúdez Convivencias,” was presented to the nearly sold-out crowd at the Ford on Saturday night.

REVIEWS | Sara Veale

High-def, Hyperreal

Like Eve with the apple, the story of Pandora’s box hinges on a clear divide—the ideal before and the sullied after.

REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Third Spaces

It hasn’t taken Ingrid Silva long to establish herself as an exciting emerging choreographic talent.

FEATURES | Karen Greenspan

Holding Ground with Malpaso Dance Company

Founded in 2012, the Malpaso Dance Company of Cuba has toured internationally to great acclaim, with its unique mission of showcasing the best of international contemporary dance repertory while nurturing new Cuban choreographic voices.

REVIEWS | Claire Sawers

Reemergence

In the first half of tonight’s double bill by Scottish Ballet, Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang whacks her drums with such force, she breaks her drumstick.

REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

LA Ballet at the Bowl

Who doesn’t love a little Gershwin on a hot, humid night in the Cahuenga Pass, i.e., the Hollywood Bowl?

INTERVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Cinderella Reimagined

This winter, the UK premiere of “Cinderella” is being brought to vivid life in a new production by Northern Ballet.

Featured Reads

REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Firebird Rising

Long before the dancers take the stage, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s season at New York City Center feels like one of the most energizing cultural events of the spring.

REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Rare Birds

It is rare for George Balanchine’s grand, bedazzled “Symphony in C” to open a program. Its champagne-popping finale for 52 dancers tends to be a nightcap.

REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Lord of the Dance

The Spring is Blooming festival, by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, now in its fifth year, has become a highlight of the spring dance circuit.

REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Jack of Hearts

As the audience come to their feet at the end of this ballet there is a noted difference to be seen on stage. Three women stand with joined hands, taking their call as the romantic leads of a loud and proud lesbian ballet.

REVIEWS | Rachel Howard

School Report

One of San Francisco Ballet’s greatest assets is its home venue, the Beaux-Arts style War Memorial Opera House, with four rings of seating that require performers to project their energies practically to the exosphere.