It was old hands on deck Tuesday night when Elisa Monte Dance opened its 30th anniversary season with retired guest dancers performing some of Monte's greatest hits. But even these distingu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMDowntown and Broadway aren�t the most comfortable mix, but Larry Keigwin is a club kid who�s a chorus boy at heart. His new �EXIT,� which opened Tuesday, takes downtown�s clubs upt…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNew York City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” has been a cherished part of the holidays since 1954. But even a tradition can feel brand-new when a group of promising young dancers...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:29AMOnce upon a time, before there was Black Friday, the holiday season began with “The Nutcracker.” Like an old friend, it still visits every year. And though there are versions...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:41AMThe dance world’s never been short on husband-and-wife partnerships — think New York City Ballet’s Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, or Linda Celeste Sims and Glenn Allen Sim…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:59PMTiler Peck wants you to know there’s more to being a ballerina than standing on your toes. Which is why you’ll find her — discussing dance, romance and more —...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:36PMThe belles of the ball in San Francisco Ballet’s “Cinderella” are the brilliant designs dreamed up by Julian Crouch (who gave us Broadway’s “Big Fish” and “Addams Family”) an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:34PMThe real fun in New York City Ballet’s “Just for Fun” Friday night was a Battle of the Ballerinas. The opening two works on the triple bill were shaky, but the final piece on the prog…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:26PMKicking off the 10th anniversary of Fall for Dance, two singular stars shone the brightest. Gabriel Misse and Sara Mearns come from different worlds — tango and ballet — but on Wednesday…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:52PMNew York City Ballet’s fall gala Thursday night had a passion for fashion, both on the stage and the red carpet. Three international designers clothed new ballets, while glittery guests �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:28PMHaving Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy star in “Forever Tango” is like having Lady Gaga headline a polka party: One doesn’t have much to do with the other, but it’s guarantee…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:26PMStravinsky meets Cirque du Soleil in “A Dancer’s Dream,” an intriguing but confusing grab bag of a show, in which the New York Philharmonic, puppeteers, opera singers, dancers and even…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMWas it a spiritual quest or just a fabulous workout? The Ailey company celebrated its first Lincoln Center season in more than a decade Wednesday with “Four Corners,” a new work by Ronal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:14PMBallet’s search for the Next Big Thing can get as frantic as a speed-dating princess. Happily, New York City Ballet’s Justin Peck is no frog. The 25-year-old choreographer has done three…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PMSong and dance aren’t always perfect partners. Queen Latifah was the guest of honor at New York City Ballet’s spring gala Wednesday, where her singing overshadowed the dancing. The gala …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMIt takes a lot of living to make great art about dying. Stephen Petronio is no longer the hot, young post-modern dancer he was in the late ’70s. Now 57, he’s something more — a mature …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM‘Ballet is woman,” Balanchine famously said, but this spring and summer, the dance world is raining men. One of them is 22-year-old Gentry George, who joined Ailey II last summer. Since …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PMIt’s been a long voyage home for Dance Theatre of Harlem. The trailblazing company Arthur Mitchell founded in 1969 shut down due to lack of funds nine years ago. Opening Wednesday at Jazz …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMTalk about having all the right ingredients: Mark Morris opened his season Wednesday night in his intimate, 150seat theater with live music and a legend— Mikhail Baryshnikov, who joined th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMAt American Ballet Theatre, spring means stars. One of the brightest is Muscovite Natalia Osipova, a brash technician overflowing with emotion. Her performance with David Hallberg in “Rome…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:17AMAILEY II — the farm team for the main troupe — is all about the new this year: Artistic director Troy Powell is new, as are seven dancers, and there’s enough budding talent here to dra…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:16PMWhen you put flamenco in a big theater, you risk turning an intimate art into an Iberian “Riverdance.” But maybe that’s not always such a bad thing. As part of New York’s 12th annua…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMModern dance legend Martha Graham was upstaged by her imitator Wednesday, when her company’s opening program paired two riffs on Greek mythology. There was one by Graham and one by Richard…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:15PMIs importing an evening of Balanchine’s ballets to his home base like bringing beans to Boston? Not when it brings us a dancer who’s matured into a full-fledged ballerina. Pacific Northw…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:42PMThe spills on Tuesday’s opening night at New York City Ballet didn’t chill the festivities. There was one fall in each of the three pieces that introduced the company’s two-week Tschai…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:15AMAs the title suggests, there’s more talking than turning in “From the Horse’s Mouth.” But if you’ve ever wondered about the lives of male dancers and choreographers, here’s your …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:25PMVariety is the spice of Ailey. As artistic director Robert Battle winds up his second season, he continues to broaden the repertory — making for programming where the choreography is (almo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:03AMSince opening at the Joyce last week, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has had a surfeit of swans: white, black and even dying ones. Those birds of a feather were the best of a funny fl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AMHow do you keep your act fresh after 40 years? Mummenschanz knows but, as always, nobody’s talking. The singular hybrid of mime and puppetry the Swiss-based group created seems awfully low…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:43PMThere’s more to Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center season than “Revelations.” Yet there’s a reason why it’s on so many of the bills: like “The Nutcracker,” it’s something you…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMIt’s a variation on the classic nightmare: finding yourself onstage in a dance recital — but you don’t know how to dance. And that’s exactly what happens in “Untrained,” the chee…
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