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Every human dreams of flying at some point. We watch the birds and imagine ourselves soaring above the landscape.
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Ethan Stiefel, Center Stage
Today we speak with Ethan Stiefel, who is far more interesting than the notorious Cooper Nielson.
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Ghosts in the Machines
“What is dance?” is a question posited by postmodern choreography, and postmodern choreographers generally seek to answer it through means as far away from conventional notions of dance as possible.
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C'est Chic
To consider (La)Horde is to contemplate cool. The French collective is made up of artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel.
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Moving Pictures
What’s that you see out of the corner of your eye? Is the painting . . . moving? In Florence Peake’s “Factual Actual,” the artist and her collaborators break down the boundaries between inanimate objects and living people with calm assurance and a dash of whimsy.
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Determination and Grace
Think Sankai Juku on steroids, or a sort of fractured Sufism where spinning does rule, but in the über-darkness of night.
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Embodying Untold Histories
Tucson, Arizona-based choreographer Yvonne Montoya’s latest work, “Stories from Home,” is part history, part geographical homage, and part family scrapbook.
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States of Hope
“States of Hope,” is a clever way to describe the conflicting internal voices that Hope Boykin brings to life in her new dance memoir that premiered at the Joyce in New York.
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ABT Looks Back
For the first season fully programmed by its new artistic director Susan Jaffe, American Ballet Theatre has chosen to look back and, in a sense, shop its own closet.
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Brooke Cassen: Different Dreams
Brooke Lockett, as she was known throughout her career, grew up in Ballarat and had a dream run to the stage.
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Bijayini Satpathy’s Odissi
This fall, Bjayini Satpathy has returned to New York to present what she has been developing in her home studio just outside of Bangalore in India.
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With Raised Voices
Stories are embedded in the dances of Gregory Maqoma, the South African choreographer and dancer whose work, “Broken Chord,” is currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater.
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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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