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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMDuring a renovation of its Chelsea space, the Kitchen will move to Westbeth, which houses artists, the Martha Graham company and much avant-garde history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMThe company, a keeper of the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton’s flame, has brought a pleasant and slight program to the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:27PMWith a score by the innovative electronic musician Jlin, Abraham’s dance has beautiful skeins of motion but lacks cohesive structure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:14PMA jazz trio and three other dancers join Dormeshia for a classy, classic program filled with swing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMAt Ragamala Dance Company’s nature-themed performance at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the strongest connection was between music and dance, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMMichelle N. Gibson brings her one-woman show exploring the origins of New Orleans second line, “Takin’ It to the Roots,” to Jacob’s Pillow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMHer new dance at Bard, a collaboration with the composer David Lang, is a refined, restrained and sometimes breathtaking response to the biblical poem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:57PMAt Jacob’s Pillow, the Ted Shawn Theater has reopened with the inclusive “America(na) to Me” and a premiere by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:11PMFlamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s show “Fronteras” at the Joyce Theater has a group of very good and remarkably equal dancers sharing a bounded space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PMFlamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s show “Fronteras” at the Joyce Theater has a group of very good and remarkably equal dancers sharing a bounded space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIn Martha Clarke’s piece about St. Francis of Assisi, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater, the song carries the dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMPrograms at the Joyce Theater feature early works that show how Taylor integrated the radical and the popular.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMThe student dancers looked good in Kids Dance, the performance troupe of Ballet Tech, which has passed from Eliot Feld to Dionne Figgins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMAbrera, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, has been named acting director of the school.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMMusicals like “MJ” and “Paradise Square” take on dance of the past — with some missed opportunities. But the dance in For Colored Girls” helps us to “remember what cannot be sa…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMThe fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is a terrific host, but this production at the Guggenheim Museum is awfully shaggy for an avian story, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:41PMPS21 presents work that challenges and invites, like performances by QDance, a Nigerian troupe whose leader says, “I am not your entertainment.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:50PMThe year’s festival features local troupes. “The stories and music and dance that evolved here were just as important” as those from Africa, its director says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00AMThe group returns to the Joyce with a program that includes a new work, a Trisha Brown revival and a 2006 Petronio dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMBijayini Satpathy, a MetLiveArts artist in residence, pushed the borders of her Odissi classicism to meet the art around her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMYaa Samar! Dance Theater’s production at Gibney is an uncommonly deft combination of dance and verbal theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMThis year’s dance festival pays homage to a Butoh founder, tango’s encounters, the pop group TLC and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMWaltz’s dance to Terry Riley’s seminal score, at the Brooklyn Academy, is loose and cheerful, giving a spatial sense of the suspension of time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThe choreographer and dancer Shamel Pitts’s “Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon” at New York Live Arts is stylish and sincere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMThe company, belatedly celebrating its 75th anniversary, presented a program with works by Limón and Doris Humphrey and a premiere by Olivier Tarpaga.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:22PMThe Lagos-born, Ireland-raised dancer Mufutau Yusuf comes to the Irish Arts Center with “Owe,” a solo, he says, “about my ancestry, my Yoruba heritage.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AMCalpulli Mexican Dance Company is using the holiday to share the culture of the Puebla region with New York audiences this weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMRobert Garland’s “Higher Ground” combines classical ballet and vernacular Black dance to sharpen the social commentary in Wonder songs from the ’70s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:25PMThe gap between his category-defying artistry and his career options seems to expose a missing lane in American culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn “Once Upon a Time Called Now,” the tap dancer and musician Michela Marino Lerman tries something new: a theatrical narrative.
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