The film helped bring breaking into the mainstream. Over the years, it also became famous for the subs and doubles of its star, Jennifer Beals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PM“Rome & Jewels,” revived at the Joyce Theater, established Rennie Harris as a gifted and canny choreographer of street styles for the concert stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:23PM“Memphis Jookin’: The Show,” which presents jookin “in the world it comes from,” is sincere entertainment, packed with talent and heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PMThe choreographer Troy Schumacher, the composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and the novelist Karen Russell teamed up, pushing one another to new places in their mediums.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“Fortuitous Ash,” Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s first work for a ballet company, was spectral in two senses: ghostly and insubstantial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:27PMThe Russian dancer brought her star-and-her-friends touring program to New York City Center on Saturday for a sold-out, one-night-only show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:53PMThe American Dance Platform, this year curated by Ronald K. Brown, gives three companies a stage in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThe Gibney Company presents Naharin’s “Yag,” but the dancers lack the stage presence to fully inhabit it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:53PMAt Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s current season at New York City Center, Twyla Tharp’s insouciance shines through, while anger rings true in “Survivors.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PM“Rivulets,” with a score composed by the choreographer, brings a mesmerizing stream of consciousness to Baryshnikov Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:28PMAfter years of friendship and collaboration, Aaron Marcellus is writing the music for a new dance by Michelle Dorrance, his former tap teacher.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:25PMAfter a few slow, sad years, the dance calendar returned to something like abundance, with standout shows that leaned into joy and community.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe contemporary ballet company, whose chief choreographer is Dwight Rhoden, presented dances at the Joyce Theater that felt like more of the same.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMJudith Sánchez Ruíz, a former dancer in the company, has been commissioned to make its first work not by Brown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMJennifer Weber has two shows opening on Broadway, “&Juliet” and “KPOP,” and her “Hip-Hop Nutcracker” is coming to Disney+.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMVanessa Anspaugh’s dance “Mourning After Mornings” discovers and creates its own logic, mixing humor with grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMJennifer Tipton, whose job usually entails serving the vision of choreographers and directors, has made her own show, the installation “Our Days and Night.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe Brazilian troupe Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças makes its New York-area debut with “Fúria” as part of Montclair State University’s Peak Performances series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMOriginally a virtual production earlier in the pandemic, this live version features an improvised duet between Casel and the pianist Arturo O’Farrill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:21PMIn “Unavailable Memory” at Baryshnikov Arts Center, dance artists fill in gaps in the choreographic record, but they don’t all speak fluent Cunningham.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMThere were egos and clashes, but the choreographer and painter made 16 dances together over more than 50 years, work spotlighted in the Taylor company’s season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMNiall Jones’s “Compression” at Performance Space New York asks that you adjust to the absence of the expected and tune into a different wavelength.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMThe choreographer Gisèle Vienne aims to open the doors of perception and bend our experience of time in “Crowd,” at the Brooklyn Academy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:51PMMark Morris’s “The Look of Love” is set to Bacharach songs. “People are always saying, ‘Oh my God, he wrote that?’ That’s why I’m doing it,” Morris said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMFor her piece at Madison Square Park, Beau Bree Rhee has come up with a term, “climate change bodies,” but not a dance vocabulary that expresses that idea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:28PMIn Kimberly Bartosik’s “The Encounter,” young performers and professional dancers navigate a world in turmoil, looking for a way out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMAfter a complicated journey to New York, Malpaso made it to the Joyce Theater with a program that showed it trying on various styles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMDorkyPark’s “Open for Everything,” coming to the Brooklyn Academy, is mostly light and playful, energized by Roma musicians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMSeán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance present “Céilí,” a pleasant show that doesn’t break much new ground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMThis 2011 work by the American-born, Europe-based choreographer Meg Stuart feels overextended.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:02PMIn “Burn,” a one-man dance-theater work, Alan Cumming tries to reveal the inner life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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