Cross country
Welcomed back to Los Angeles for the first time in 22 years (but who’s counting!), New York City Ballet made a triumphant return to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in two separate programs.
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Summer Swans
Like picnicking in Central Park, catching the ferry to the Rockaways, or heading to Citifield for a Mets game, American Ballet Theatre’s “Swan Lake” is a well-established summer tradition for countless New Yorkers.
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On Point
Pointeworks is the new kid on the block in San Diego’s thriving dance scene. Founded by Sophie Williams, a dancer with Texas Ballet Theatre and a San Diego native who grew up training in Solana Beach, the company says it seeks to provide off-season work for dancers and highlight female choreographers.
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Idol Dreams
Conceived by a Frenchman in imperial Russia and restaged by a Russian in post-Cold War France, “La Bayadère” periodically returns to the Paris Opera stage with its fakirs, idols and opium dreams.
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A carousel spins in the middle of the grassy area outside Colonels Row on Governors Island. For the next three hours, mirrored vertical bars that form a cage on the...
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An Artless Caravaggio
The life of artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is ripe for dramatic interpretation.
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Puzzles, Work, and Resolve
It’s absolutely wonderful seeing a company at the top of their game. Scottish Dance Theatre at forty is a force to be reckoned with.
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Self-Portrait in the Making
Now in its second year, the Tate Modern’s Infinities Commission is awarded to a contemporary practitioner whose work proposes radical ways of thinking about performance, installation and time-based art.
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A Class Act
A ballet career necessitates lifelong scholarship. Professionals take a daily technique class that begins with the same pliés at the barre as absolute beginners. Most days at the School of American Ballet, New York City Ballet members are tucked into in a corner of the studio, honing their tendus alongside the top divisions.
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Jessica Lang is smack in the middle of a three-year stint as resident choreographer at Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet. It’s an excellent artistic match that deserves to be followed closely,...
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Golden Hour
The close-knit ballet scene in San Diego was dealt a blow when California Ballet, the company Maxine Mahon founded in 1968, folded in 2020. Insiders tell me the pandemic wasn’t entirely to blame, but since then, Golden State Ballet, still wet behind the ears, has risen in its place.
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Divine Summer
Now in its fifth year, Lincoln Center's “Summer for the City” festival is going all out for dance. This year, the festival will inaugurate the much-anticipated Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival in Alice Tully Hall, featuring five international companies, as well as a new outdoor contemporary dance series called Dance Encounters, presented outside on Hearst Plaza.
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Die Another Day
In defiance of the stars overhead, and destiny foretold, Joseph Caley’s Romeo falls, and utterly so, for Grace Carroll’s Juliet, on the opening night of the Australian Ballet’s Melbourne season of John Cranko’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Young at Heart
It’s hard to think of a company as fresh as Rambert at one hundred years old. The company, founded by icon of British dance Marie Rambert, has prided itself on being the leading contemporary voice within the UK.
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There’s few artists you can truly label as iconoclastic within any discipline, let alone dance, but when discussing Rocio Molina few other labels seem to fit the bill.
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Mind Palace
The void will appear soon, we are told, to invite us into an hour-long escape. The pre-show announcement is more poetic than prescriptive: “We are not islands scattered in a melancholy dark sea,” the voice of god adds, and shortly thereafter, the curtain rises on BalletCollective’s latest work, “Translation,” choreographed by founder Troy Schumacher.
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A Rose is a Rose
A dancer’s lineage can tell you a lot. The places they’ve trained, the mentors they’ve had, the repertoire they’ve inscribed into their long-term memory all have an impact on the ways that they move, attack a set of steps, strategize a quick petit allegro or a dreamy adagio. So, too, is this true for choreographers.
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A High-contrast Zigzag
“So Are We,” from Sol León and Paul Lightfoot—former spouses who share a long-running creative career—is something of a full-circle event.
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Hymn to an Uncommon Man
OG Anunoby’s fingertip putback of Jalen Brunson’s Hail Mary three-pointer. Jordan Staal’s diving sniper goal. It’s playoff season, a time of year dominated by unbelievable, high-stakes athleticism across several sports (see also the French Open, the FIFA World Cup).
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Carly Topazio, the founding director of the Rosin Box Project, knows what a challenge it is to stand out amidst San Diego’s many dance companies.
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