Directing Dance Umbrella
When London’s Dance Umbrella festival launched in 1978, its future was uncertain. Would festival-goers and funders love or loathe the radical contemporary dance it presented?
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Liminal Dance
Dance has always captivated me, but it very rarely grips me in the same way as the other things I like to watch—horror movies and cult documentaries—do.
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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...
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Winning Works
BalletMet has joined the ranks of ballet companies who have added a choreographic competition to their season.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Third Spaces
It hasn’t taken Ingrid Silva long to establish herself as an exciting emerging choreographic talent.
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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.
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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.
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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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