The choreographer’s “Navy Blue” is the rare work to express the emotions of life in pandemic lockdown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:55PMThe La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2024 featured a high ratio of talking to dancing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:05PMThe choreographers nominated for Tony Awards this year have a broader vision than usual of the possibilities of dance in theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMThe Gibney Company’s program at the Joyce Theater includes two Twyla Tharp dances from the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:16PMCarol Mullins, who has been lighting boundary-pushing shows at Danspace Project since the 1970s, will be honored at its 50th anniversary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:16AMThe two premieres — one by Justin Peck, one by Amy Hall Garner — were gala-style pieces that felt more fresh than rote.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PMWith choreography by Kate Prince and 27 songs by Sting, this story of refugees has impressive dance moments, but handles narrative and emotion tritely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMIn “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PMThe Sydney Dance Company’s “ab [intra]” at the Joyce Theater is impressive but chilly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PMAs Harlem Stage’s E-Moves dance series turns 25, Bill T. Jones and other major choreographers discuss its impact on Black dance in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AM“We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMAyodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PMAs the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved, it has trained dancers and choreographers for tenacity as much as technique.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMThe choreographers Baye & Asa usher the Sphinx puzzler into a vaguely menacing landscape.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMA new work, “The White Feather” is inspired by the history of the Iranian National Ballet, which went dark during the Islamic Revolution and was never revived.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:17PMAt City Center, performers like Olga Pericet and Manuel Liñán knew the rules they were bending.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:17PMPontus Lidberg’s “On the Nature of Rabbits” at the Joyce Theater is a dance haunted by AIDS.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMThe Afro-Colombian company Sankofa Danzafro presents “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel” at the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMWith Judson Dance Theater and elsewhere, he expanded the possibilities of what dance could be, developing works around basic tasks like eating a pear or simply walking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PM“Deep River,” featuring the choreographer’s company, Lines Ballet, has a meditative flow without much grit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:27PMJean Butler’s “What We Hold,” at the Irish Arts Center, is an installation-like work that seeks restrained classicism in a post-“Riverdance” world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMPhiladanco! returns to New York with four premieres that highlight the dancers’ skills without revealing much deeper artistry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38PMTiler Peck, a New York City Ballet star, is making her first work for the company. “It’s my opportunity to pass on to the next generation anything that’s been given to me.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMHe worked with the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor troupes and then created his own group, Dan Wagoner and Dancers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:35PMIn Compagnie Hervé Koubi’s “Sol Invictus” at the Joyce Theater, the dancers’ extraordinary moves are integrated into a poetic vision.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:52PMThe highlight of the street dance festival “Motion/Matter” at the Perelman Performing Arts Center came at the end: an all-styles battle that honored roots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMLisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein’s picaresque “Deepe Darknesse” models itself on the randomness of an ancient Roman novel, “The Golden Ass.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57AMHe rose to stardom in an act with Gregory Hines and also performed on and off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMAn exhibition at New York Public Library tells a different, more inclusive story about the genealogy of an art form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM“The March” explores unison, while “Is It Thursday Yet?” concerns a dancer’s struggle to understand herself after receiving a diagnosis of autism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThe tap dancer Caleb Teicher and the beatboxer Chris Celiz have expanded an earlier collaboration into an evening-length work at the Joyce Theater.
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