Friday, April 21, 2023
The choreographer is trying his hand at filmmaking with an experiment that merges drama, dance and music.
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In Gregory Maqoma’s “Cion,” performed by the Vuyani Dance Theater at the Joyce, the performers offer images of collective lamentation, prayer and hope.
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Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber seem to have had a thousand ideas for “Pit.” All of them appear to have been included.
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In “Broken Chord,” the choreographer Gregory Maqoma and the composer Thuthuka Sibisi consider the journey of a South African choir that traveled to England in the 19th century.
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A group of eclectic performers will gather to perform new and old dances. Adji Cissoko, a member of Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, will be the artist in residence.
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Mehdi Kerkouche, who comes from the commercial dance world, has been tapped to run an important public institution, the National Choreographic Center in Créteil.
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These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
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“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.
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Her new work for the Royal Ballet, “Secret Things,” is both pedestrian and poetic, a portal into the practices and collective memories of ballet.
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Melanie Chisholm has collaborated with the choreographer Jules Cunningham on “How Did We Get Here?,” a dance piece exploring what the body holds.
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Starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” started production, only to lose key financing.
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“Houseboy” took shape at the South Africa-based Center for the Less Good Idea, where artists are allowed to follow their own impulses.
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Martinez, once a member of the company’s troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.
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Crystal Pite’s “Light of Passage” at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines.
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Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project presents a “Romeo and Juliet” with same-sex lovers. And at Paris Opera Ballet, Alan Lucien Oyen goes Bauschian.
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The events around Queen Elizabeth’s death have unfolded with an astonishing amount of formal, choreographed movement.
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“Burn” is an unlikely hybrid: A movement-focused show performed by a famous actor with no dance training, about a man whose medium was words.
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The choreographer Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet’s artistic director, talk about their “Giselle,” coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Christopher Wheeldon’s full-length work for the Royal Ballet succeeds best when not meeting the demands of storytelling.
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The British tenor Allan Clayton’s portrayal of the title role in Brett Dean’s opera is personal, emotional — and a breakthrough.
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A former star ballerina with the company, Jaffe will assume the reins after the 30-year tenure of Kevin McKenzie.
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Silas Farley’s dance for City Ballet’s Stravinsky festival has a score by David K. Israel that builds on a poem Balanchine wrote and set to music for Stravinsky.
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“There are no rules,” says Janie Taylor, a former City Ballet principal, whose dances are featured in the L.A. Dance Project’s Joyce Theater season.
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On the 50th anniversary of New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky Festival, remembering a collaboration for the ages: Balanchine and Stravinsky.
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Mejia and Quan are the artists in residences at this summer’s festival, which will also feature new works by Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz and others.
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In a new memoir, the former president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music reflects on some of the organization’s most memorable stagings and artists.
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For his new work at New York City Ballet, Peck enlisted the composer Caroline Shaw and the artist Eva LeWitt: “It has really felt like a back-and-forth conversation.”
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Rojo, who has given the English National Ballet a new allure, succeeds Helgi Tomasson as just the fifth director to lead the San Francisco company.
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Lefèvre, a former director of the Paris Opera Ballet, is stepping down from running the Cannes Dance Festival. What next? “I want to dance.”
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Sunday, December 5, 2021
In his long career, most of it with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played everyone from King Lear to Primo Levi to Ringo Starr.
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