Saturday, March 23, 2024
A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones.
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Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention.
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In “What We Hold” at the Irish Arts Center, the “Riverdance” star turned contemporary choreographer returns to Irish dance with an inquiring lens.
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Alexei Ratmansky, arguably the most important ballet choreographer today, has made a deeply personal first work as artist in residence that reflects his Ukrainian roots.
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A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny.
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Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with his partner Rachel Poirier on “How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Saturday, June 17, 2023
Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” is a new kind of endeavor for the company: a full-length work based on a contemporary novel and popular film.
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Michelle Manzaneles’s new work for Ballet Hispánico is, she says, “a way of going personal through another person’s story.”
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With a new biography and a production of “Les Noces,” the time has come to reconsider the choreographer, whose work and reputation have languished since .
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The dancers in the United Ukrainian Ballet have found a home in the Netherlands. This week the company makes its U.S. debut in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Giselle.”
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After a season of saying farewell to cherished roles, the City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin prepares to take her final bow in “The Nutcracker.”
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Dance entered Steven Melendez’s life when Diana Byer met him at the shelter where he was living as a child. Now he runs the company she started.
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Bijayini Satpathy has been remaking herself as an artist with the help of a residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most important figures in ballet, is supporting Ukraine by staging “Giselle” with a company made up of Ukrainian refugees.
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Getting its delayed New York premiere, “Of Love and Rage,” at Ballet Theater, is like a time capsule of a more carefree period of Ratmansky’s life and art.
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A program of early works at the Joyce Theater shows a different, more experimental side of the choreographer.
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Despite an impressive roster, including Manuel Liñán’s “Viva!,” this year’s edition, the 20th, represents a radically streamlined version of the festival.
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Opera houses and theaters in European cities are offering to help fleeing or stranded ballet dancers, even as many are still stuck in Ukraine.
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The New York-based choreographer, who was working on a new ballet for the Bolshoi, said he doubted he would return to Russia to work “if Putin is still president.”
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It has taken Miami City Ballet six years to get the Alexei Ratmansky production — the biggest and most expensive in the company’s history — off the ground.
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“I was thinking about Balanchine a lot,” said Roberts, Ailey’s choreographer in residence, who is making his first work for New York City Ballet.
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The spring-summer season is to include groups from abroad, as well as performances the Paul Taylor company, Dormeshia and others.
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Thomas Forster, promoted to principal dancer during the pandemic, makes his New York debut in “Giselle” as the company returns to Lincoln Center.
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The pandemic was disastrous for tango. But milongas are thriving around the city now, capped by the return of Queer Tango Weekend.
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The season features 18 companies, including some, like Malpaso from Cuba, whose shows were canceled last year.
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A major figure in 20th-century dance, she was acclaimed for her directness and emotional naturalness onstage, especially in the title role of “Giselle.”
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Major companies return with outdoor performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center, and more.
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One of the busiest choreographers in ballet is back in the studio, thanks to bubble protocols. “For what I do, and for the language I use, the stage is needed,” Ratmansky said.
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Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
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Mr. Copes, along with his partner María Nieves Rego, helped take tango out of the social club and make it an international craze. He died of complications of Covid-19.
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