Friday, March 29, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.
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In Ursula Eagly’s “Dream Body Body Building” at the Chocolate Factory, the dancers seem to be transmitting a dream state to the audience.
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Her program at the Joyce Theater features an extroverted dance from 1975 and two new works: an introspective solo to Jacques Brel and an antic look at a choreographer creating.
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In this work, inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films, Croatian performers address the fraught director-actress relationship at its core.
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George Lee was the original Tea in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” A documentary filmmaker found him and a lost part of ballet history in Las Vegas.
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Molissa Fenley’s “From the Light, Between the Lamps,” a collection of short works, is a steady, rigorous exploration of movement to music.
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The group, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, leans into tap’s oneness of dance and music for “I Didn’t Come to Stay.”
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Recent experiments in describing dance, like the film “Telephone,” approach it not just as an accessibility service but as a space for artistic exploration.
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In her funny and fidgety way, the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth presents new works that probe the uses and limits of language and movement.
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In two programs, (La)Horde and the Ballet National de Marseille introduced New York to work that taps into a youthful, rebellious spirit.
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Spare and simple, “Aging Prelude” at the Chocolate Factory is a new beginning for the choreographic duo Chameckilerner.
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The center, an unstructured retreat for dance artists, ran into financial difficulties that were heightened by the pandemic.
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Yoshiko Chuma and her company’s “Shockwave Delay” at La MaMa layers movement and music with video and spoken text. It’s a lot to take in.
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The South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo’s “The Sacrifice,” at the Joyce Theater, responds to Pina Bausch.
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In “Yes and Yes,” at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to “Ulysses,” true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.
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Bobbi Jene Smith’s “Broken Theater” is perhaps the most high-profile offering at La MaMa Moves!, but other programs were just as memorable.
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Kathy Westwater’s dances at the Chocolate Factory, “Revolver” and “Choreomaniacs,” build on her focused movement investigations of the last 20 years.
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At New York City Center, a characteristically generous Casel presents works by other choreographers as well as her own “Where We Dwell V.2.”
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Gutierrez, whose work often calls attention to the precariousness of life in the performing arts, is experiencing a period of midcareer abundance.
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In “Weathering” at New York Live Arts, the performers seem like the last holdouts of a civilization clinging to survival.
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The contemporary dance group Bereishit performed two works by its founder, Park Soon-ho, at NYU Skirball.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
“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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Israel Galván brought a new iteration of his visually pared-down, danced-without-music “Solo” to Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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The interdisciplinary Out-FRONT! fills a gap in the dance calendar, showing incandescent works like Jasmine Hearn’s “Salt and Spirit.”
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The Indigenous artist Daina Ashbee’s first group piece, at the Gibney, simmers with tension and offers an approach to healing.
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Sunday, December 11, 2022
Ivy Baldwin’s defiant and poignant work for four dancers at the Chocolate Factory Theater is the outcome of deeply considered collaboration.
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At 30, Jacquelin Harris is expanding her repertoire, with role debuts in store for the latest Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater season.
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At Kyle Abraham’s premiere for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center, dancers find intimacy in songs by Erykah Badu and Jazmine Sullivan.
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