Healing Together
Gibney Company’s season at the Joyce Theater was full of common threads, promising beginnings, and lingering energy.
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Steps in the Street
It seems fitting that as the world held its collective breath over violent threats from the US White House, the Martha Graham Dance Company would perform “Chronicle,” an anti-war statement from 1936, as the centerpiece for the opening of its New York City Center season.
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Ballet in the City with Joshua Beamish
Perhaps best known for touring with New York City Ballet associate artistic director Wendy Whelan in her show “Restless Creature,” Joshua Beamish grew up dancing in his Canadian hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, founding his own company when he was just 17.
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Emotionality Unbound
Ballet Unbound” was a diverse mixed repertory program that landed squarely in Ohio Contemporary Ballet’s sweet spot as a company presenting classical modern dance, and neo-classical and contemporary ballet works.
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Toward a More Perfect Union
It is a strange time to be celebrating our nation’s milestone birthday, our semiquincentennial.
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Everything Under Control
It’s hard to predict where Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will go next. Literally. Through the repertoire selections presented in the company’s two-week run at the Joyce Theater, the dancers demonstrate a particular aptitude for moving in a way that’s endlessly surprising.
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A Grimm Tale
“The Juniper Tree” is a macabre fairy tale involving three feminine archetypes: mother, stepmother, daughter.
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Rewind
La Scala Theatre’s ballet season featured a programme offering a snapshot of European choreography from 25 years ago.
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Meryl Tankard, Staying Connected
Meryl Tankard is somewhat of an Aussie dance legend. A choreographer of international renown, her works have been mounted and premiered on prestigious companies ranging from Royal Ballet of Flanders and NDT III in Europe, to the Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company in her homeland.
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Moondance
The Mark Morris Dance Group, now celebrating its 45th anniversary, visited the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a quick late-March run with two topical dances that were new to New York: one heavy and one light.
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Simply Red
Do ballet trends bubble up cyclically, or did artistic directors collude to engineer this year’s “Firebird” mania? Suddenly this spring, the flaring-eyed creature immortalized in Stravinsky’s 1910 score is headlining programs at American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem, almost all at once.
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Theatre-going
“Empreintes” featuring two new creations by Jess & Morgs and Marcos Morau, reads as a choreographic response to Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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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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