Wednesday, September 21, 2022
In “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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The choreographer and performer Nora Chipaumire’s new six-hour work at the Alexander Kasser Theater invokes ancestral spirits.
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Friday, August 26, 2022
Audio descriptions are one path into this disability arts ensemble’s show. In some ways, these mirror the critic’s job: putting dance into words.
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During a renovation of its Chelsea space, the Kitchen will move to Westbeth, which houses artists, the Martha Graham company and much avant-garde history.
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The company, a keeper of the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton’s flame, has brought a pleasant and slight program to the Joyce Theater.
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With a score by the innovative electronic musician Jlin, Abraham’s dance has beautiful skeins of motion but lacks cohesive structure.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
At Ragamala Dance Company’s nature-themed performance at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the strongest connection was between music and dance, our critic writes.
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Michelle N. Gibson brings her one-woman show exploring the origins of New Orleans second line, “Takin’ It to the Roots,” to Jacob’s Pillow.
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Her new dance at Bard, a collaboration with the composer David Lang, is a refined, restrained and sometimes breathtaking response to the biblical poem.
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At Jacob’s Pillow, the Ted Shawn Theater has reopened with the inclusive “America(na) to Me” and a premiere by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.
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Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s show “Fronteras” at the Joyce Theater has a group of very good and remarkably equal dancers sharing a bounded space.
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In Martha Clarke’s piece about St. Francis of Assisi, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater, the song carries the dance.
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Programs at the Joyce Theater feature early works that show how Taylor integrated the radical and the popular.
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The student dancers looked good in Kids Dance, the performance troupe of Ballet Tech, which has passed from Eliot Feld to Dionne Figgins.
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Abrera, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, has been named acting director of the school.
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Musicals 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…
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The 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.
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PS21 presents work that challenges and invites, like performances by QDance, a Nigerian troupe whose leader says, “I am not your entertainment.”
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The 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.
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The group returns to the Joyce with a program that includes a new work, a Trisha Brown revival and a 2006 Petronio dance.
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Bijayini Satpathy, a MetLiveArts artist in residence, pushed the borders of her Odissi classicism to meet the art around her.
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Yaa Samar! Dance Theater’s production at Gibney is an uncommonly deft combination of dance and verbal theater.
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This year’s dance festival pays homage to a Butoh founder, tango’s encounters, the pop group TLC and more.
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Waltz’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.
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The choreographer and dancer Shamel Pitts’s “Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon” at New York Live Arts is stylish and sincere.
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The 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.”
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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is using the holiday to share the culture of the Puebla region with New York audiences this weekend.
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