Dimitris Papaioannou’s “Transverse Orientation” starts with a joke: Entering from a single door in a blank white wall, several tall,...
For the 71st edition of the prestigious Holland Festival, which took place at various venues around Amsterdam for three weeks...
There is a global and personal story behind “Ink,” the new creation by Dimitris Papaioannou that premiered in September in...
Sturm und Drang—2017 saw the dance world roiling with it, both on and off the stage. Israel’s culture minister hit the headlines for refusing arts funding to performances involving nudity; Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmad Joudeh made a prominent debut with the Dutch National Ballet after fleeing death threats from Islamic State; discord boiled over in Moscow as the director of the Bolshoi’s long-awaited “Nureyev” was placed under house arrest on what many suspect are trumped-up charges intended to punish him for celebrating the life of a gay man on stage—a conspicuous challenge to Putin’s ban on so-called ‘homosexual propaganda.’
