More than a Vampire Story
It’s important for young dance artists to have the space, time, and resources to create. With its mission of giving autonomy to dancers, Pangea Dance Collective, founded in 2022, is working to offer just that.
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Inner Landscapes
Early in its 2026–27 season, the Paris Opera Ballet presents “Paysages intérieurs (Inner Landscapes),” and once again we are faced with the much-debated question of just how many contemporary mixed bills the company should programme.
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Lucy Guerin, Inc
At the end of the year, Lucy Guerin will step down as founding artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, with Melanie Lane to take the helm in 2027, and a new company name to be revealed.
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Salve for the Soul
Whether Rosalía really stood on pointe for four minutes while singing “Reliquia,” on “Saturday Night Live” recently, or it was some sort of television trickery, the sight of her steadfastness on toe came to mind when watching the brilliant dancers of Houston Ballet make their debut at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on opening night of their five-performance run of the West Coast premiere of “Sons de L’âme (Sounds of the Soul).”
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Healing Hike
A hike where art moments happen along the way is how dancer-choreographer Dominic Moore-Dunson described his site-specific, outdoor dance-theater work, “Black by Nature.”
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Balanchine, Evergreen
As a true balletomane, this writer can never get enough Balanchine. And true to form, American Contemporary Ballet kicked off its fifteenth season with “Pas de Deux,” three works by the master himself, George Balanchine, and another by Lincoln Jones, ACB’s savvy artistic director with a penchant for the man who helped change the art form in this country.
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Page Notes
I’ve never thought about program notes and how much they help or hinder connecting to a new dance as much as I have since watching Jessica Lang’s creative association unfold with Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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Boston Ballet in Paris
For Boston Ballet’s third visit to Paris, the company brought what promised to be two surefire crowd-pleasers: Alexander Ekman’s “Cacti” and Akram Khan’s “Vertical Road (Reimagined).”
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Dancing Your Way Home
As a Nor’easter wreaked havoc along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard, the wet winds calmed down enough by late afternoon to venture out to Alonzo King Lines Ballet that evening.
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On Criticism
On rare occasions, a dance seems to speak directly to me—often to my experiences as a dancer, sometimes to my humanity.
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Limón, Past and Present
I can’t take my eyes off the men. Stephen Haley, Joey Columbus, and Ian Debono each have solos in “Mazurkas” that emphasize the Limón posture full of elegance and pride.
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Weird and Whimsical
While the dancers traveled up from Florida, the Sarasota Ballet presented a taste of British sensibilities in its week-long engagement at the Joyce Theater.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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