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The Flamenco Festival has been bringing Spain's greatest flamenco artists to New York City Center for twenty years. This year's two-week run saw the National Ballet of Spain, Premio Nacional de Danza winner Olga Pericet in her intimate solo piece, “La Leona,” and Gala Flamenca, highlighting dance talents Manuel Liñán, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo, and Paula Comitre, accompanied by vocalist Sandra Carrasco. Steven Pisano photographed the festival for Fjord Review.
Five years ago Oakland Ballet launched its Dancing Moons Festival as a way to highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander choreographers in response to the surge of anti-AAPI hate during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Gibney Company’s season at the Joyce Theater was full of common threads, promising beginnings, and lingering energy.
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It seems fitting that as the world held its collective breath over violent threats from the US White House, the Martha Graham Dance Company would perform “Chronicle,” an anti-war statement from 1936, as the centerpiece for the opening of its New York City Center season.
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Perhaps best known for touring with New York City Ballet associate artistic director Wendy Whelan in her show “Restless Creature,” Joshua Beamish grew up dancing in his Canadian hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, founding his own company when he was just 17.
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