In her Stride, Alicia Graf Mack
Once referred to as the “Rolls-Royce of American dance,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founded in 1958 by Alvin Ailey, continues to live up to that plaudit.
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Dancing the Body Politic
Ranjini Nair wears a few hats. Trained as a classical dancer in her native New Delhi by gurus Seetha Nagajothy, Jayarama Rao, and Vanashree Rao, she later found herself deep within the world of academia.
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Returning to Troy
Only three years after its premiere at Cork’s Midsummer Festival, Philip Connaughton finds his work of epic proportions, “Trojans,” in the hands of Luail.
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Josie Walsh, Seeing Red
Possibly one of Los Angeles’ best kept terpsichorean secrets, artistic director, choreographer, and teacher Josie Walsh has decidedly forged a path unlike any other.
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Bringing Timelines to Light
British choreographer Jaivant Patel has intersectionality at his core. He trained at the Northern School for Contemporary Dance and then went on to learn from Nahid Siddiqui, a global exponent of Kathak.
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Hervé Koubi: Dance and Defiance
With their inimitable blend of contemporary movement and the no-holds barred athleticism of hip-hop and the meticulousness of martial arts, Compagnie Hervé Koubi creates a visual language unlike any other.
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Forty Years and No Slowing Down
From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.
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A Living Archive
Dance artists and scholars have long asked the same question: how do we document an art form that, by nature, exists in one moment and is gone the next?
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Dance Odyssey
Ushering in the ninth season of Dance at the Odyssey, which takes place January 8–February 16 at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and features a number of cutting-edge choreographers and world premieres, curator, producer and festival co-founder Barbara Müller-Wittmann adores her job.
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Reach for the Stars
When dancer and choreographer Marla Phelan was a kid, she wanted to be an astronaut. “I always loved science and astronomy,” Phelan said.
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Mastering Misuse with d. Sabela grimes
He’s a choreographer, movement composer and trans-media storyteller: He’s d. Sabela grimes, who grew up in Lompoc, California, and didn’t know that his true calling would be as a dancer, choreographer and teller of tales until he moved to Philadelphia in the late 1990s and met Rennie Harris of Rennie Harris Puremovement.
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Ryan Tomash Steps into a New Role
Back in October, New York City Ballet got a new cowboy. His arrival occurred in the final section of George Balanchine’s “Western Symphony.”
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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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