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Monday, March 31, 2025

In 50th Anniversary Shows, Danspace Project Pulls Past Into Present by Gia Kourlas and Brian Seibert

As part of its 50th anniversary, the East Village institution presents reimagined dances by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland, Donna Uchizono and Bebe Miller.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

PS21, a Hub for Forward-Looking Art Upstate, Names a New Director by Brian Seibert

Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Review: Can Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Find a New Voice? by Brian Seibert

On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

Boy Blue Brings British Hip-Hop to Lincoln Center by Brian Seibert

Boy Blue brings its new show, dense with dance and rootsy British hip-hop, to Lincoln Center.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

At NYLA, ‘Terrestrial: The Sprout’ Proposes Drab Future Rituals by Brian Seibert

In “Terrestrial: The Sprout,” at New York Live Arts, three directors present a show about epic memory and indescribable feelings.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025

A Twyla Tharp Master Class on Themes, Variations and Allusions by Brian Seibert

A program celebrating Twyla Tharp’s 60th year making dances features the masterwork “Diabelli” and the fresh new “Slacktide,” set to Philip Glass.

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Friday, March 7, 2025

Review: Batsheva, and a Dance Divided by Brian Seibert

Batsheva Dance Company’s performance of Ohad Naharin’s masterful “Momo” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was inevitably colored by events in Israel and Gaza.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Douglas Dunn’s Dance Idyll, With Undertows of Darkness by Brian Seibert

Douglas Dunn + Dancers’ season at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan includes a pastoral premiere and an experimental opera.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Review: Tango Passion as Muscular Feats by Brian Seibert

“Tango After Dark” at the Joyce Theater feels like an extended nightclub floor show, low in imagination and musical subtlety.

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Akram Khan’s ‘Gigenis’ Is His Most Potent Work in Years by Brian Seibert

“Gigenis,” drawn from a tale in the Mahabharata, is the choreographer Akram Khan’s most potent work in years.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Stephen Petronio Is Disbanding His Dance Company by Brian Seibert

The company, founded in 1984, has struggled with finances since the pandemic.

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Review: In Justin Peck’s New Dance, Air, Earth and Self-Help by Brian Seibert

“Mystic Familiar,” a New York City Ballet premiere, has a score by the musician Dan Deacon and some all-too-familiar sentiments.

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Resisting Oppression With Creativity, Two Ways by Brian Seibert

The Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday featured thrilling works by Angie Pittman (“Black Life Chord Changes”) and Kyle Marshall (“Joan”).

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Review: Tales From the Mahabharata in Harmony and Disharmony by Brian Seibert

At the Joyce Theater, Ragamala Dance presents “Children of Dharma,” an elegant production that lacks dramatic pop.

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Monday, January 6, 2025

A Brooklyn Group Get Its Own Home to Support Black Artists by Brian Seibert

651 Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André Zachery’s “Against Gravity.”

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Monday, December 30, 2024

Oral History Project Considers Impact of Bringing Modern Dance to China by Brian Seibert

An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Arlene Croce, Dance Critic With a Biting Wit, Dies at 90 by Brian Seibert

Writing for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Two Alvin Ailey Productions Head for the Light by Brian Seibert

Hope Boykin’s “Finding Free” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels” aspire to find higher ground at New York City Center.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Best Dance Performances of 2024 by Gia Kourlas, Brian Seibert and Roslyn Sulcas

Once-in-a-generation ballerinas, topical works that transcended politics and a voguing “Cats” were highlights of the year.

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Review: Resistance and Struggle in a Dance of Private Rites by Brian Seibert

A solo by the choreographer Bintou Dembélé, the first showing of her work in the United States, explored the crossover between hip-hop and diasporic African ritual.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Alvin Ailey Dance Chooses Alicia Graf Mack to Be Next Leader by Brian Seibert

Mack, director of the dance division at Juilliard, will be the popular company’s fourth artistic director.

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Friday, November 15, 2024

Review: In ‘Tell It Anyway,’ Freedom Is Power by Brian Seibert

This Ralph Lemon work, part of a MoMA PS1 exhibition, is an experience of sound as much as dance. His collaborators can lead an audience to ecstasy.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

Review: “Frontera” at BAM by Brian Seibert

At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the highlight of Dana Gingras’s “Frontera” may well be the lighting design.

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey Dancer of ‘Power and Radiance,’ Dies at 81 by Brian Seibert

She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Review: Bill T. Jones’s ‘Still/Here’ Returns After 30 Years by Brian Seibert

At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bill T. Jones’s “Still/Here” returns, free of the AIDS-era context in which it premiered.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Helen Pickett Brings ‘Crime and Punishment’ to American Ballet Theater by Brian Seibert

“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.

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Monday, October 28, 2024

Paul Taylor Dance Company Takes Advantage of the Empty N.Y.C. Office Spaces by Brian Seibert

The Paul Taylor Dance Company joins a very short list of dance troupes with substantial real estate in one of the world’s most expensive markets.

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Review: Porcupines of Plastic and Other Provocations by Brian Seibert

The choreographer Nadia Beugré, who brought her “Quartiers Libres Revisited” to New York Live Arts, likes to keep her audience close. And involved.

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Review: The Miraculous Simplicity of Patti Smith’s Childhood by Brian Seibert

At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, an adaptation of Smith’s poem-memoir “Woolgathering” features Smith reciting, others dancing and a surprise guest.

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Friday, October 11, 2024

A Choreographer’s Errands Into the Wilderness by Brian Seibert

The Greek-born choreographer Lenio Kaklea made her American debut at Governors Island, a fitting spot for work about the boundaries between nature and culture.

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘Ainadamar’ Opera Makes Its Met Debut by Brian Seibert

Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the choreographer Deborah Colker.

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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
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis 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