An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMWriting for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:15AMHope Boykin’s “Finding Free” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels” aspire to find higher ground at New York City Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07PMOnce-in-a-generation ballerinas, topical works that transcended politics and a voguing “Cats” were highlights of the year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMA solo by the choreographer Bintou Dembélé, the first showing of her work in the United States, explored the crossover between hip-hop and diasporic African ritual.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39PMMack, director of the dance division at Juilliard, will be the popular company’s fourth artistic director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMThis Ralph Lemon work, part of a MoMA PS1 exhibition, is an experience of sound as much as dance. His collaborators can lead an audience to ecstasy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PMAt the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the highlight of Dana Gingras’s “Frontera” may well be the lighting design.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PMShe became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMAt the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bill T. Jones’s “Still/Here” returns, free of the AIDS-era context in which it premiered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PM“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:21AMThe Paul Taylor Dance Company joins a very short list of dance troupes with substantial real estate in one of the world’s most expensive markets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMThe choreographer Nadia Beugré, who brought her “Quartiers Libres Revisited” to New York Live Arts, likes to keep her audience close. And involved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMAt the Baryshnikov Arts Center, an adaptation of Smith’s poem-memoir “Woolgathering” features Smith reciting, others dancing and a surprise guest.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMThe Greek-born choreographer Lenio Kaklea made her American debut at Governors Island, a fitting spot for work about the boundaries between nature and culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMOsvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the choreographer Deborah Colker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMDayton Contemporary Dance Company brought a mixed bill to the Joyce Theater, including a Paul Taylor classic and a dance by the great Rennie Harris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:17PMBotis Seva, a rising British choreographer who mixes hip-hop and contemporary dance, brings his Olivier Award-winning “BLKDOG” to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05AMMarikiscrycrycry examines fresh territory in “Goner,” but his ideas remain theatrically inert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:20AM“People came from everywhere to see her shows,” an admirer said — including, on at least one occasion, the ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMThe choreographer Sharon Eyal turns the Drill Hall of the Armory into a club at which her dancers appear at intervals, behaving oddly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PMThe jeweler’s generously funded Dance Reflections program is having a major influence on the city’s scene. How much impact is too much?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMJodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMJakob Karr, from “So You Think You Can Dance?,” has conceived and choreographed a show set to songs by the country musician Orville Peck.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMMichelle Dorrance’s new work, “Shift.,” honors Gene Medler, the teacher who founded the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe best dance by far on Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s program at the Joyce is by Amy Seiwert, who is about to be the company’s director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:51AMTap festivals have been pivotal in passing on tradition. But New York’s has been canceled and the institution that supports it faces an uncertain future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMWayne McGregor’s 2015 work, making its New York debut with American Ballet Theater, fails to make dance poetry of Virginia Woolf’s novels.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PMJawole Willa Jo Zollar, who founded Urban Bush Women four decades ago, says goodbye to it with a final work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04AMIt was a sign of her generosity that her program this weekend was almost all work by her associates.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMThe choreographer’s “Navy Blue” is the rare work to express the emotions of life in pandemic lockdown.
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