The Art of Exploration
Melbourne-based dance artist Jo Lloyd uses choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts.
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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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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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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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A Balletic Ode to Queer Love
Two years ago Jonathan Watkins, choreographer and former dancer with the Royal Ballet, founded a new venture: Ballet Queer.
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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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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
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
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.
PlusA Balletic Ode to Queer Love
Two years ago Jonathan Watkins, choreographer and former dancer with the Royal Ballet, founded a new venture: Ballet Queer.
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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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Emergent Summer, Part 2
The lobby of the Ace Hotel Boerum Hill is an excellent place to work, particularly in the room with the long table and library lamps.
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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
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.
PlusIn the Style of Camille A. Brown
She’s one of the hottest and most prolific Black female directors and choreographers working today. Tapping into both ancestral and contemporary stories that capture a range of not only deeply...
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The Women who Dance with their Demons
Martha Graham’s short ballet from 1947 “Errand into the Maze” takes inspiration from the epic Greek legend of the Minotaur’s Labyrinth.
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Anniversaries in the Open Air
The New York City Ballet's summer residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center captured a year of company anniversaries.
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Nora Chipaumire Moves to Break Boundaries
It may seem like a stretch to go from being a lawyer to making one’s mark in the world as an acclaimed dancer, director, and choreographer, but that’s precisely what Nora Chipaumire has done.
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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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Ambitious. That was the mot du jour at the Southbank Centre press night reception for (La)Horde's “We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon.”
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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
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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Going Solo with Lar Lubovitch
“I never set out particularly to be a creator of solos,” says Lar Lubovitch. “But after 60 years in the dance world and 120 dances, I will have made a number of solos.”
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Freedom to Fly
In the canon of classical ballet, star-crossed love is an integral theme. With its US debut of “The Butterfly Lovers”—a new full-length work inspired by a Chinese folktale that dates back to the Tang Dynasty—Hong Kong Ballet brings an artfully rendered addition to this tradition
PlusBy the Sea
They begin to move without warning, slowly, as if awakened from some eons-long slumber. A mass of 18 dancers, all dressed in varying bright tones, moves just at the edge...
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