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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

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...

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Ate 9 and Jacob Jonas the Company: “Fog” with choreography by Danielle Agami and Jacob Jonas

Place

Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, California, August 29-30, 2025

Words

Victoria Looseleaf

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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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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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Catching the Moment with Paul Kolnik

Catching the Moment with Paul Kolnik

For nearly 50 years the legendary dance photographer, Paul Kolnik, helped create the visual identity of the New York City Ballet.

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Wonderstruck
REVIEWS | Steve Sucato

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 company.

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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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The Enduring Appeal of Giselle

The Enduring Appeal of Giselle

Why does “Giselle,” a ballet that premiered in 1841, still captivate audiences today? At first glance, the story feels outdated: a peasant girl, Giselle, is deceived by the nobleman Albrecht...

Performance

National Ballet of Japan: “Giselle”

Place

Royal Opera House, London, UK, July 2025

Words

Phoebe Roberts

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Stepping Up
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

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.

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Tiler Peck's Suite Steps
INTERVIEWS | Anna Eastman

Tiler Peck's Suite Steps

Tiler Peck is wending her way through the airport with a smile on her face. She’s on her way from the Vail Dance Festival to New York to rehearse for the Jerome Robbins festival she’s curating and performing in this August at the Joyce Theater, a beloved, bijou downtown dance venue.

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Stars in Tokyo

Stars in Tokyo

Ballet Asteras, the National Ballet of Japan’s annual summer gala launched in 2009 as an opportunity for Japanese dancers working overseas to perform for their home audience.

Performance

National Ballet of Japan's annual gala, Ballet Asteras

Place

New National Theater Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2025

Words

Kris Kosaka

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