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BAAND in Pictures
For the third year in a row, five of New York City's most iconic dance companies—Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem—joined forces for for the BAAND Together Dance Festival, hosted by Lincoln Center.
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50 years of Embodied Knowledge
The headline performance of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s Hip Hop Across the Pillow mini-festival—which took place from August 2-6, 2023 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop—was an abundance of embodied knowledge.
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Collective Growth
What would the story of Alice in Wonderland look like if it was reimagined by a group of women?
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Tangled up in Blue
The show starts outside the theater. A car, with its right rear window busted out, pulls up, music blaring, bass turned up.
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Lucky Thirteen
Four distinct works, their creation initiated by a shared prompt. Four choreographers, plus time, space, and the ten dedicated contemporary ballet artists of Amy Seiwert’s company, Imagery.
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Momentum
“This is historical,” Ballet22 co-founder Theresa Knudson told the audience between works on the company’s latest program, “Momentum.”
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Vignettes of 50 years
Pilobolus has become synonymous with pushing boundaries, both in the physical and the thematic. The company’s run at New York City’s Joyce Theater, which culminated their Big Five-OH! Tour—a belated-by-Covid celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary—was a reaffirmation of this mission.
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Mark Morris Makes History
When Mark Morris Dance Group comes to the Joyce Theater August 1-12, the two-week engagement will be one for the dance history books.
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Relative Calm
Lucinda Childs/Robert Wilson's “Relative Calm” (1981/2022) opened the six-week long ImpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival in its the 40th anniversary on July 7 at Vienna's Volkstheater.
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High Concepts and Power Moves
There is packaging, topicality, grand themes, elaborate stage designs, high concepts. And then there are moments when the flesh and blood power of dance itself—the presence of a lone body channeling transcendent purpose—leaves you reeling.
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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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