Talking Pointes Season 3

Show and Tell

The Guggenheim Museum’s beloved behind-the-scenes New York dance series, Works & Process, was founded in 1984 by philanthropist Mary Sharp...

Turbulent and Extraordinary

The late Alvin Ailey famously set his sights on creating “the kind of dance that could be done for the...

Contrasting Paths

Few dance companies would dare to put such disparate pieces together. But such is the audacious, experimental spirit of Scottish...

The Way it Was

Seven dancers reflect on the early days of the School of American Ballet.

Moving Mountains

Batsheva Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin, who led the troupe from 1990 until 2019 (he’s currently...

The Me of Today

The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky reflects on the war in Ukraine, the connection between geopolitics and ballet, and joining the house...

Border Crossings

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ current exhibition is a dance epic. Full of tragedy and triumph...

Soul Train

Ah, to be a mere dance writer reviewing a world premiere musical with Broadway aspirations! The sheer luxury of letting...

Bringing dance history to life

For novelists Eliza Knight, Barbara Quick, and Cathy Marie Buchanan, historical fiction became a window into these subtleties, allowing them...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe recorded its fifth highest attendance in its history, a different reality from the ghostly years of...

Real Time

In the Upstairs Studio at Dancehouse, Rosalind Crisp hands me a small card which invites me to “Please sit where...