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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Review: Delayed by the Pandemic, Pilobolus Celebrates Its 50th by Gia Kourlas

The company wraps up its delayed anniversary tour with a selection of vintage dances and premieres in a three-week season at the Joyce Theater.

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Cassandra Trenary’s Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible’ by Gia Kourlas

Cassandra Trenary, an American Ballet Theater principal dancer, pulls classical dance into the present through the drama of being real.

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Friday, June 23, 2023

Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet by Gia Kourlas

American Ballet Theater opened its summer season with Christopher Wheeldon’s new three-act ballet, inspired by a novel and film.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow by Gia Kourlas

In Madeline Hollander’s fascinating “Hydro Parade,” 15 dancers stream through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Your task? To keep up.

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Ballet Tech Kids Dance Lights Up the Joyce by Gia Kourlas

Kids Dance, the performance group of Ballet Tech, returned to the Joyce with a mix of premieres and classics.

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Friday, June 9, 2023

Private Dances: Lotto Royale Offers a ‘Door to an Experience’ by Gia Kourlas

River to River Festival presents an art experiment in which audience members and dance artists, paired randomly, meet for one-on-one performances.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

A Surprising Stage for Dance: The Subway Platform by Gia Kourlas

The tap dancer Ja’Bowen brings his art underground, where kids learn steps, commuters dance along and his energizing performances are bursts of joy.

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Monday, May 29, 2023

Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet by Gia Kourlas

A flurry of debuts. The return of Sara Mearns. Performances that lingered after the curtain fell. Here are the highlights from a packed spring season.

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn by Gia Kourlas and Nate Palmer

The festival hosts the National Dance Company of Ghana at the Brooklyn Academy. “You’re getting the best of all the dances.”

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Review: Gibney Mines a Too-Familiar Contemporary Dance Mode by Gia Kourlas

With a premiere by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond at the Joyce, Gibney Company builds on its repertoire but doesn’t enhance it.

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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season by Gia Kourlas

After 15 years, New York City Ballet revives “Brandenburg,” the choreographer’s final ballet, with a sparkling new cast.

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Friday, May 5, 2023

Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World by Gia Kourlas

The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of “I as another,” a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

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Friday, April 28, 2023

The Wild Life and Times of a Soon-to-Be Former City Ballet Dancer by Gia Kourlas

Harrison Ball is retiring. After battling addiction, he is engaged to Zac Posen, serious about acting and grateful for his career.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Review: Dancing With the Flowers and Douglas Dunn by Gia Kourlas

The choreographer collaborates with the designer Mimi Gross in “Garden Party,” a whimsical celebration of spring that hints at loss.

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At Trisha Brown, a New Voice Creates a ‘Symphony of Layers’ by Gia Kourlas

The Trisha Brown Dance Company branches out beyond its founder’s work with its first commission: Judith Sánchez Ruíz’s “Let’s Talk About Bleeding.”

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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine by Gia Kourlas

The company presented two large-scale works, one inspired by the French protests of 1968, and the other a response to a lost Merce Cunningham work, at NYU Skirball.

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Friday, April 21, 2023

An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ by Gia Kourlas and Ok McCausland

A new generation of choreographers, obsessed with composition and costumes, experiments at Pageant in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. by Gia Kourlas

As artistic director, Johnson, a pathbreaking ballerina, helped get the company back on its feet after a hiatus. Now, she’s ready to be an artist again.

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Friday, April 14, 2023

‘I Raised Them!’ Nina Ananiashvili’s Georgian Dancers Come to Town by Gia Kourlas

Ananiashvili’s company, the State Ballet of Georgia, presents a program of works by George Balanchine and Yuri Possokhov at the Lehman Center in the Bronx.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) by Gia Kourlas

With new books and a podcast taking another look at the legacy of George Balanchine and the culture of ballet, where does a modern ballerina stand?

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Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love by Gia Kourlas

Abraham and his company, A.I.M, returned to the Joyce Theater with a program of mixed repertory, including new dances and a Bebe Miller solo.

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Friday, March 31, 2023

Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada by Gia Kourlas

The company returned to New York City Center with recent works by Crystal Pite and David Dawson, along with a vintage offering by Kenneth MacMillan.

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

A Dancer and Chaplain Illuminates the Invisible With Patience by Gia Kourlas

In “The Invisible Project,” a premiere at NYU Skirball, the choreographer Keely Garfield’s work as an end-of-life and trauma chaplain informs the dance.

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome by Gia Kourlas

Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the first time in six years with “Água,” a long, whimsical work from 2001.

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Monday, February 27, 2023

The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening by Gia Kourlas

The company wrapped up its season with two weeks of Peter Martins’s “The Sleeping Beauty,” a flurry of debuts and four promotions.

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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Four Dancers Promoted to Principal at New York City Ballet by Gia Kourlas

Signaling the arrival of ballet’s next generation, the soloists Emilie Gerrity, Isabella LaFreniere, Roman Mejia and Mira Nadon move up.

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ by Gia Kourlas and Yael Malka

“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” revived by the director Wayne Cilento, is back on Broadway. Its stars? An eclectic cast of dancers who are anything but machines.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet by Gia Kourlas

Women’s empowerment is the undercurrent of the winter season at New York City Ballet. Does it have a place in Americana?

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

Review: Dancing for Themselves in an Underworld of Shadows by Gia Kourlas

Cullberg, a contemporary Swedish company, makes its Joyce Theater debut with Deborah Hay’s delicate, hypnotic “Horse, the Solos.”

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet by Gia Kourlas

Kyra Nichols, a former principal, returns to the company for the first time since her 2007 retirement to coach ballets by Balanchine and Robbins.

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ by Gia Kourlas

New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer expands on “Rodeo” to make an evening-length work set to some of Aaron Copland’s most popular music.

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime