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Saturday, November 9, 2024

DANCE NEWS: New In! Robert Battle is Now Resident Choreographer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company by The Dance Enthusiast

“Robert Battle brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to Taylor. I’m deeply gratified that he accepted this position." — Michael Novak, Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance…

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IMPRESSIONS: Maureen Fleming's The Alchemist's Veil at La MaMa by The Dance Enthusiast

The Alchemist’s Veil at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre features Fleming’s 90 minutes of dance, film and music inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. Comprised of nine scenes…

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

POSTCARDS: Paul Taylor Dancers' Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak On Their Experiences This Dancing Season by The Dance Enthusiast

See Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak Dance with their Talented Castmates during Paul Taylor's Season at Lincoln Center November 5th thru November 24th!

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IMPRESSIONS: Jakob and Imani at Hudson Yards by The Dance Enthusiast

"There, in between the park’s fountains,  they are greeted by visual artist Jakob Vitale’s tall, wooden cityscape mural. Booming music vibrates near his painting playground. As people …

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Friday, November 1, 2024

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Jody Sperling Brings La Loie to The Paul Taylor Season by The Dance Enthusiast

"As Jody Sperling hoped, these two Taylor dancers have taken her Loie Fuller inspired, yet contemporary dances inside of themselves to make something very special, old yet new.  It will be…

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IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet — All Peck Program by The Dance Enthusiast

"All Peck"celebrates Justin Peck’s decade as New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer. In the grand walls of the David H. Koch Theater, a highlight of All Peck is the mini-documenta…

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Edges of Ailey at The Whitney Museum of American Art by The Dance Enthusiast

Activist, dancer, and choreographer, Alvin Ailey stands at the fulcrum of the Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition running through February 9, 2025. This show was six years in the ma…

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Paris Opera Ballet dances William Forsythe and Johan Inger in their 2024-2025 Season Opener by The Dance Enthusiast

"Rearray, originally created for Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 2011 for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas La Riche, is both beautiful and glaringly harsh." - Ann Moradian

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IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center FALL FOR DANCE 2024 - Programs 4 and 5 by The Dance Enthusiast

"One cannot help but follow Trenary’s every step on her transfixing journey, as she pushes the boundaries of what a single dancer can do in terms of energy and endurance." Hennin…

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Sunday, October 27, 2024

DANCE NEWS: CUNY Dance Initiative Announces Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops by The Dance Enthusiast

CUNY Dance Initiative announces its Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops. As part of its residency program for NYC choreographers, the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI) sponsors classes, worksho…

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

DANCE NEWS: The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2024-2025 Fellows by The Dance Enthusiast

“We are thrilled to welcome this extraordinary group of fellows to CBA and NYU this academic year. Their diverse disciplines — including theater, choreography, art history, Black diaspor…

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Friday, October 25, 2024

IMPRESSIONS : AINADAMAR: A Fountain of Tears at the Metropolitan Opera by The Dance Enthusiast

"Deborah Colker, the Brazilian director/choreographer, keeps the cast moving; the space seems to expand and contract as they billow out and in, and sometimes up. The cast, singers and dancer…

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

IMPRESSSIONS: The Batsheva Ensemble performs “Kamuyot” at 92Y by The Dance Enthusiast

"At the heart of the show is a proposal—an appeal to joy, an invitation to connect and be together in this time and place, and to dance." - Cecly Placenti, New York

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Niall Jones “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson” at Danspace Project by The Dance Enthusiast

"stunned to be confronted by a flood of light ...darkness is only a comfort to the idle spectator...which you are notnot here...not tonight...maybe not ever again...shake awake the witness i…

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IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center Fall for Dance 2024 - Programs 2 and 3 by The Dance Enthusiast

"kNoname Artist / Roderick George is a company I was unfamiliar with, but that from now on I will seek out...George has made a moving work and his powerful dancers commit to it wholeheartedl…

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DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: The Joffrey + Ballet in the US at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Part 1) by The Dance Enthusiast

"The crush at the door for the Joffrey Ballet tickets at the Vienna Festival was so overwhelming that the city’s strict fire laws were broken, and people were herded in without seats for t…

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Company Wayne McGregor at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park by The Dance Enthusiast

"Company Wayne McGregor from Britain took to the Mountain View stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY, umbrellaed by the splendid kitesurfer-like awning on sunny afternoons, October …

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Alethea Pace's Site Specific "between wave and water" by The Dance Enthusiast

 "The last surviving image documenting the location where Africans...were laid to rest in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx is a 1910 photograph titled "Slave Burying Ground.” Alethea …

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Monday, October 14, 2024

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: The Limón Dance Company Rehearsing José Limón's "The Traitor" by The Dance Enthusiast

“What is so spectacular about this work in particular, and what also makes it difficult to re stage, is that each each character, is having a individualistic experience of the events that …

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Thursday, October 10, 2024

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Works & Process presents Martha Graham Dance Company with Baye & Asa by The Dance Enthusiast

"Notably unlike Graham, Baye & Asa have not placed themselves front and center in their own work; and although the new Cortege contains solos, it is eminently an ensemble piece in which …

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IMPRESSIONS: SOULSKIN Dance presents BEAUTY at Mark Morris Dance Center by The Dance Enthusiast

"BEAUTY unfolded as a total sensory experience with trippy projections, a diverse soundscape, and a contemporary ballet aesthetic." -Hanna Lieberman, New York

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Dance and Process: Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, & Ogemdi Ude at The Kitchen by The Dance Enthusiast

"These artists challenge notions of performance through a participatory ethos that invites and implicates the spectator ... Together Anakwe, tye, and Ude offer an evening of generosity, aban…

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: Girl Group Performances: Arlene Shechet X Annie-B Parson at Storm King Art Center by The Dance Enthusiast

"Dipping into her quintessentially spare, staccato pedestrian gestures and walks, this most recent offering references Parson’s emotionally reserved dances designed to express, without fus…

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The Dance Enthusiast Asks: Choreographer Mark Morris and Breakthru's Melissa Painter Collaborate To Bring Movement to the Workplace by The Dance Enthusiast

"I’m trying to build a bridge between everything Mark's been doing forever and these poor people stuck in desk jobs. It's a movement, and we're not going to give up. " Melissa Painter, Fou…

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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: R.O.S.E. at the Park Avenue Armory by The Dance Enthusiast

"In this hypnotic whirlwind of light and sound, R.O.S.E. proves contemporary dance is not a remote art form to only be appreciated by dance cognoscenti, it is a movement for the people." Mir…

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IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet 2024 Fall Season “Eclectic NYCB” by The Dance Enthusiast

"Seeing a dancer debut in a role can be an exciting discovery. Comparing a dancer’s first performance to another artist’s seasoned take might not always seem fair. But, in the end, diffe…

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

IMPRESSIONS : Belongó Worldwinds- Arturo O’Farrill, La Tasha Barnes Jazz Continuum, and Soles of Duende at Roulette by The Dance Enthusiast

"These sixteen dancers and musicians play together like sandbox pals who have known each other since kindergarten...  Yet this joyous and spicy collaboration marked the first time that the …

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Dance/NYC Partners with Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy On Newly Launched Araminta Space Grant by The Dance Enthusiast

Dance/NYC is excited to announce their partnership with Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy on the inaugural cycle of the newly launched Araminta Space Grant Initiative in celebration of the …

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Monday, September 30, 2024

IMPRESSIONS: "THAT SHOW" presented in Collaboration with Index Space by The Dance Enthusiast

"On September 21, THAT SHOW hosted its second half-performance, half-celebration event. Held once again at Index Space, the production exuded a familiar, earnest DIY vibe—the kind that say…

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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