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Bringing Timelines to Light

British choreographer Jaivant Patel has intersectionality at his core. He trained at the Northern School for Contemporary Dance and then went on to learn from Nahid Siddiqui, a global exponent of Kathak.

INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Hervé Koubi: Dance and Defiance

With their inimitable blend of contemporary movement and the no-holds barred athleticism of hip-hop and the meticulousness of martial arts, Compagnie Hervé Koubi creates a visual language unlike any other.

INTERVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Forty Years and No Slowing Down

From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.

INTERVIEWS | Sophie Bress

A Living Archive

Dance artists and scholars have long asked the same question: how do we document an art form that, by nature, exists in one moment and is gone the next?

INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Dance Odyssey

Ushering in the ninth season of Dance at the Odyssey, which takes place January 8–February 16 at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and features a number of cutting-edge choreographers and world premieres, curator, producer and festival co-founder Barbara Müller-Wittmann adores her job.

INTERVIEWS | Cecilia Whalen

Reach for the Stars

When dancer and choreographer Marla Phelan was a kid, she wanted to be an astronaut. “I always loved science and astronomy,” Phelan said.

INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Mastering Misuse with d. Sabela grimes

He’s a choreographer, movement composer and trans-media storyteller: He’s d. Sabela grimes, who grew up in Lompoc, California, and didn’t know that his true calling would be as a dancer, choreographer and teller of tales until he moved to Philadelphia in the late 1990s and met Rennie Harris of Rennie Harris Puremovement.

INTERVIEWS | Marina Harss

Ryan Tomash Steps into a New Role

Back in October, New York City Ballet got a new cowboy. His arrival occurred in the final section of George Balanchine’s “Western Symphony.”

INTERVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Cathy Marston's Sense of Narrative

I joined choreographer and artistic director Cathy Marston over a video call at the end of another day of rehearsals.

INTERVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

London City Ballet Spreads its Wings

Times are hard for ballet. With national funding that favours the new and the bold, ticket prices rising, and accusations of elitism, only a fool would start a company focused on works of the past.

INTERVIEWS | Garth Grimball

Lee Jong-Ho, for the Love of Art

Before founding the Seoul International Dance Festival, Lee Jong-Ho began his career as a journalist.

INTERVIEWS | Marina Harss

Amy Watson, A Steady Hand

When Amy Watson took the reins at the Royal Danish Ballet one year ago, she entered stormy waters.

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REVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Teenage Angst and Institutions

Watching Matthew Bourne's reworked version of the “star-cross'd lovers,” I was briefly reminded of Veronica, played by Winona Ryder, in the dark 1988 comedy by Daniel Waters and Michael Lehmann, Heathers, and her line, “my teen angst bullshit has a body count.” Yes, this is the darker side of Bourne's repertoire,...

INTERVIEWS | Marina Harss

The Me of Today

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

REVIEWS | Rachel Howard

Starry Nights

Beneath blue California skies, manicured trees, and the occasional hum of an overhead airplane, Tamara Rojo took the Frost Amphitheater stage at Stanford University to introduce herself as the new artistic director of San Francisco Ballet.

REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

America, F**K Yeah

After a week of the well-balanced meal that is “Jewels”—the nutritive, potentially tedious, leafy greens of “Emeralds,” the gamy, carnivorous “Rubies,” and the decadent, shiny white mountains of meringue in “Diamonds”—the New York City Ballet continued its 75th Anniversary All-Balanchine Fall Season with rather more dyspeptic fare.

REVIEWS | Emily May

Acosta Danza’s Choreographic Soup

An “Ajiaco” is a type of soup common to Colombia, Cuba, and Peru that combines a variety of different vegetables, spices, and meats.