World-class review of ballet and dance.
Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world,” and whether it is something to “resist, surrender to, suspend or redefine,” it is a necessary condition of us.
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The traditional striped kabuki curtain of black, persimmon and green hangs tattered and faded. It’s our first hint of destruction.
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On the final weekend of August, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presented Anna Sperber’s Bessie award-winning dance “Bow Echo” during the opening day of its 2026 Annual Festival.
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This summer, hidden within the red brick warehouses and graffitied construction panels of industrial East Williamsburg, Brooklyn lay a secret garden.
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Ballet X gave a performance of “The Four Seasons Reimagined” on June 11, 2026, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in a premiere week that began at its home base in Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann.
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Scottish Ballet’s artistic director Christopher Hampson CBE has long been a champion of storytelling from a completely unique perspective. So too, with These Violent Delights: the first feature-length film from the company.
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The theme driving Misty Copeland’s curation of the Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival was “to center Black, Brown, and Queer artists.”
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My first two shows at this year’s Dance Base as part of the Edinburgh Fringe show the consummate taste of artistic director Tony Mills. Two brilliant young companies from the Basque Country perform very different, but no less thrilling, work.
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“Ballet: the New Classic,” brainchild of fashion photographer Yumiko Inoue and K-Ballet Tokyo associate artist, Shohei Horiuchi, combines haute couture with innovative dance. Like sculpture in motion, it’s their third collaboration since creative director Inoue and producer and choreographer Horiuchi first realized their stylish vision in 2022.
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What should ballet look like? From the eight pieces that compose the first program of Misty Copeland’s curation for the Joyce Theater’s annual Ballet Festival, this much is clear: there’s no one single answer.
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Old and new generations intersect each other in the city of Venice. This is true for dance as well, which had the lagoon city as a picturesque backdrop this summer for the Biennale Danza, where poetry and intellectual excellence are still preserved in its artistic offerings, even under the siege of tourism.
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It starts with a tiny, barely noticed jerk of a hand or arm. Just one simple gesture, and then all hell breaks loose. TF Cia de Dança brings what has to be one of the most frenzied, sweaty pieces of dance to the Edinburgh Festival.
Continua a leggereLong 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.
Continua a leggereIt 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.
Continua a leggereAs 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.
Continua a leggereOne 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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