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Squaring the Circle
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

Squaring the Circle

I’m not weathering well. Are you? Individually and globally, it seems to me the last five years left many of us in a vague sort of freefall, in a theatrum mundi that becomes more and more desperate.

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In the Style of Camille A. Brown
INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

In the Style of Camille A. Brown

She’s one of the hottest and most prolific Black female directors and choreographers working today. Tapping into both ancestral and contemporary stories that capture a range of not only deeply personal experiences but also embody cultural narratives of African American identity, she is Camille A. Brown.

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Nora Chipaumire Moves to Break Boundaries

Nora Chipaumire Moves to Break Boundaries

It may seem like a stretch to go from being a lawyer to making one’s mark in the world as an acclaimed  dancer, director, and choreographer, but that’s precisely what...

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Under the Milky Way
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Under the Milky Way

Look up at the night sky, and the stars can tell you when to seed, harvest, and fish. The overhead knowledge system heralds seasonal change, and allows you to read the weather forecast.

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Opportunity Cost
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Opportunity Cost

After a decade spent in Los Angeles, Danielle Agami, who founded Ate9 in Seattle in 2012, abruptly decamped for Europe in 2023, leaving somewhat of a gap in the local dance community.

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No Time for a Tango
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

No Time for a Tango

Two men enter the stage and hang suit jackets on the backs of chairs. They begin with a short movement phrase in staccato unison—an elbow juts over the shoulder as if an arrow sticking out of a quiver, then an arm slices cross-body like a sword.

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Going Solo with Lar Lubovitch

Going Solo with Lar Lubovitch

“I never set out particularly to be a creator of solos,” says Lar Lubovitch. “But after 60 years in the dance world and 120 dances, I will have made a...

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Freedom to Fly
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Freedom to Fly

In the canon of classical ballet, star-crossed love is an integral theme. With its US debut of “The Butterfly Lovers”—a new full-length work inspired by a Chinese folktale that dates back to the Tang Dynasty—Hong Kong Ballet brings an artfully rendered addition to this tradition

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By the Sea
REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

By the Sea

They begin to move without warning, slowly, as if awakened from some eons-long slumber. A mass of 18 dancers, all dressed in varying bright tones, moves just at the edge of the rising tide in front of a U-shaped crowd sitting against the dunes of Rockaway Beach.

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Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

Houston Ballet is the fourth largest ballet company in the United States, but when it comes to the talent of its top dancers, they are the equal of any American...

Performance

Houston Ballet with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra: Choreography by Ben Stevenson, Vasily Vainonen, Stanton Welch

Place

Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater, Chautauqua, NY, August 9, 2025

Words

Steve Sucato

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Paul Taylor, Past to Present
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

Paul Taylor, Past to Present

The height of summer has arrived to New York’s lush and idyllic Hudson Valley. Tonight, in addition to music credited on the official program, we are treated to a chorus of crickets and tree frogs in the open-air pavilion of PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance.

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Fever Dream Logic
REVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Fever Dream Logic

Eschewing a conventional film narrative, Labyrinth of the Unseen World created in collaboration by French filmmaker Amelie Ravalec and Scots/Irish dance artist Paul Michael Henry, instead fuses visual poetry with dance performance, creating a hallucinatory, disturbing, yet beautiful dreamscape.

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Stepping Up

Stepping Up

Time to step on the moving staircase once more—“Escalator,” an evening showcasing new choreographic work curated by the Stephanie Lake Company, in association with the Abbotsford Convent, is back.

Performance

“Escalator,” curated by Stephanie Lake Company with performances by Alice Dixon, Marni Green, Robert Alejandro Tinning, Thomas Woodman, and Carmen Yih

Place

Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Melbourne, August 6, 2025

Words

Gracia Haby

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