World-class review of ballet and dance.
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 Pool at Hearst Plaza.
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The Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion and authenticity, duende, roughly translates to a single word, “soul.”
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Midway through the new book Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City, author Rennie McDougall pivots away from a chapter on the modernism of George Balanchine and the slum-clearing process of creating his “temple at Lincoln Center” to flesh out another diasporic music and dance culture emanating out of Harlem during a similar time in history: mambo.
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The Biennale offered an intimate view of artistic creation, with pioneering choreographer Molissa Fenley among the artists featured in this year’s programme.
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I have seen Megan Fairchild dance three times. The first was semi-unintentional—soon after moving to New York in the fall of 2024, I got one of those $30 for 30+ Under tickets and sat in the orchestra level on stage right.
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For the sixth year now, the BAAND has gotten back together at Lincoln Center. That is, the BAAND Dance Festival, the annual Chanel-sponsored program that unites five New York City dance companies: Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem.
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There’s just something about the outdoor dance performances that summer brings. Movements take on additional urgency when rain threatens.
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With the exception of the central pas de deux from “Le Corsaire,” this bill, held to celebrate Marianela Nuñez’s remarkable 28-year run at the Royal Ballet, pulls solely from the twentieth century.
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The 2026 edition of the festival SpringForward unfolded in Guimarães, Portugal, the European Green Capital of the year, a city whose commitment to sustainability offered a fitting backdrop for a festival dedicated to emerging choreographic futures.
Continue ReadingLong 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.
Continue ReadingIt 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.
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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.
Continue ReadingAs 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.
Continue ReadingOne 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.
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