“No diving. No running. Absolutely no cannonballs,” the pre-show announcement at Joe’s Movement Emporium orders. But get ready to dive deep for the world premiere of #poolparty as it u…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMThe portraits hang solemnly, unmoving at the Smithsonian’s Portrait Gallery. Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess breathes life and movement into these two-dimensional works of art with a t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMMaking the extraordinary ordinary appears to be a notion we can’t shake. If it isn’t dumbing down, it’s taking down, mashing up or just plain copying. Thursday, April 26 at the Kennedy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMIn this era of #MeToo, a review of the New York City Ballet can’t begin without noting the allegations of abuse against now-retired Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins. Late last year, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:02PMA tapestry of poetry, chant, music, and dance drawn from a swath of the ancient Silk Road has provided vivid inspiration for influential choreographer Mark Morris. His re-envisioning of Layl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMGrowing old isn’t for sissies. In South-African-born, British playwright Ronald Harwood’s smart 1999 comedy Quartet, he gently wrestles with the indignities of aging in a British senior-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AMAs parts of the nation settled in to hear 45 read the script of the State of the Union address, and other parts assiduously ignored the same, balletomanes and ballet goers in the Washington …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PMIn ink, choreographer/dancer Camille A. Brown’s final installment in her trilogy examining African-American identity, an entire history of a people is written indelibly on the bodies of h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMGenerations of budding ballerinas have lusted after the shiny crimson satin pointe shoes in the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes. Who can resist those shoes, they make the wearer dance, and d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMTap dancers are family. As family they gather together, catch up, trade stories, reminisce, honor their forbears and simply, yet profoundly, enjoy each others’ company. Saturday evening’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMIn a week that began with the repeal of DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – what better way to end it than with a musical about dreamers. For those children – many now …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMThere’s virtually nothing a drag queen won’t say, or do, in public or private, say the Kinsey Sicks. The San Francisco-based beauty shop quartet that puts the show into show business, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMBaseball players take the winter off. Football players do the same in the summer. Ballet dancers are of a different breed. When their companies go on hiatus, typically in early June, they fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMWhat does 21st-century ballet look like? For The Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America program, principle dancer and celeb ballerina Misty Copeland, 34, and 29-year-old New York City Ball…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMMen in tights and pointe shoes ballet super seriously and have fun doing it. The all-male comic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo returned to the Kennedy Center March 21 w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PM“Archaic/Modern” is not only the title of the estimable exhibit of Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi mid-20th-century works at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. Archaic/mod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16AMThe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is looking as strong and beautiful as ever in its annual February visit to The Kennedy Center Opera House. Now in his sixth year as artistic director o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMBriar Rose. Brunhilde. Talia. Rosamond. Aurora. Over the centuries Sleeping Beauty has been known by many names, but the long abiding folk tale of good conquering evil and love conquering al…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25PMWalking into Dance Place for the world premiere of choreographer and dancer Vincent Thomas’s What’s Going On: Life, Love, and Social Justice, an homage to Marvin Gaye, the great Northeas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMEver since Debbie Allen parleyed a killer look in the 1980 movie Fame into a featured role on the popular television series, this triple threat has been busting open doors in Hollywood for w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMThe choreographic universe Tim Rushton created for his evening-length contemporary ballet Black Diamond is made up of an engaging accretion of enticing, quirky, and oddball moments in movem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25PMIf you want to know how America dances, don’t tune in to those kitschy television competition shows So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing With the Stars. Check out Dorrance Dance in The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMHeraclitus may have said it first, but 20th century modern dance pioneer Martha Graham followed his dictum: “Change is the only constant.” The company the iconic dancer and choreographe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08AMThe last living – and working – link to the founding generation of modern dance choreographers, Paul Taylor remains true to his values as a consummate dancemaker imbuing his works with i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PMGoing Out With a Bang: The Washington Ballet’s Carmina Burana and Bowie/Queen The standing ovation came before a single dancer took the stage. It lasted about two minutes to honor the fin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PMMonica Bill Barnes & Company Serving Up Food for Thought … and Cake In life some things that are easy look hard and others that are hard look easy. That’s also the case for choreogra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PMBallet Elevated Earlier this month, the dance world rumbled a bit upon learning of the resignation of The Washington Ballet’s high-energy, effervescent Artistic Director Septime Webre. Sin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMDance Place Reunion Celebrates 35 Years When Dance Place marks a milestone, invariably by the evening’s end its Founding Artistic Director Carla Perlo has more people on stage than in the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05AMAlexei Ratmansky’s newest staging of the great classical ballet The Sleeping Beauty feels like that moment in the classic MGM film The Wizard of Oz when the scene goes from black and white…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMThe Winter’s Tale: Warm Production for a Cold Winter’s Night Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has taken a challenging late Shakespearean play – The Winter’s Tale from 1623 – and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMFor reasons that continue to surprise me, 2015 was a relatively light dance-going year for me. That said, I managed to take in nearly a top ten of memorable, exceptional or challenging perfo…
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