This Chicago company presents Irish dance of great skill, while trying, sometimes successfully, to modernize and invigorate the tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMIn “Piece of Work” at the Joyce, Mearns dives into collaborations with choreographers outside the ballet world, including Jodi Melnick and Beth Gill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PM“The Musician & the Mover,” a new work from the respected B-boy, had its New York premiere at New York Live Arts on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMBodytraffic’s program at the Joyce Theater leaves you contemplating some problems of contemporary dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:38PMIn “An Untitled Love,” an hourlong show at BAM, Abraham and his dancers turn the stage into a house party set to D’Angelo tracks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMSankofa Danazfro returns to New York with “Accommodating Lie,” a curiously muted work about the display of Black Bodies
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMPam Tanowitz’s “Four Quartets,” a rich mix of poetry, painting, music and dance, had its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMThis edition resembles past ones, with an international miscellany of approaches to the question of what filmed dance can be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:46AMThe challenge of casting the Encores! revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” exposes some of the complications of tap, show business and Black history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMDespite the pandemic disruptions, this festival of contemporary dance from Asia went on, nearly as planned, with four North American premieres.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMChyrstyn Fentroy was a star at Dance Theater of Harlem before joining Boston Ballet, where she has been promoted to the top rank of principal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMMichelle Dorrance and Dormeshia set the friendly tone of an evening of tap, with guests and gratitude, at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMThe French circus company Libertivore makes its American debut, though its director had to give up her performing career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMIn Big Dance Theater’s new work, premiering at BAM Fisher, Annie-B Parson melds her sensibility with that of the Conceptual artist Guy de Cointet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMA year of uncertainty was capped by a happy ending: a rush of performances this fall, including standouts by masters (Twyla Tharp) and breakout stars (LaTasha Barnes).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMCelebrating 10 years as the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Battle says he is most proud of the chances he has taken.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:59PMCreated during the pandemic, Zvi Gotheiner’s “The Art of Fugue,” performed by ZviDance at New York Live Arts, now registers as a work of recovery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMIndigenous Enterprise is rooted in tradition but also has hip-hop influences, discernible in footwork, bounce and especially attitude.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe choreographer Christopher Williams’s queer reimagining of the Narcissus myth is brilliantly conceived and costumed, though a bit stodgy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:21PMThe Martha Graham Dance Company’s return to the Joyce Theater featured a premiere, classic repertory and an intriguing experiment in reconstruction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMRisk and improvisation are integral to kathak, the Indian classical dance form on display in Rachna Nivas’s stunning solo performance at Dixon Place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:08PMThis mixed-nuts dance series returned with a whiplash-inducing program of Streb Extreme Action, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and the Verdon Fosse Legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMCaleb Teicher’s “Sw!ng Out” at the Joyce Theater aims to bring swing onstage as it lives today in a program that’s part variety show, part hangout.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMAlejandro Cerrudo’s “It Starts Now” gets its underwhelming debut at the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMAlso on the bill for this free outdoor program is the choreographer’s U.S. premiere of “Quad,” a wordless television play by Samuel Beckett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThe excellent Bharatanatyam troupe, Ragamala Dance Company, reopens the theater to live performance with “Fires of Varanasi.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PMMauro Bigonzetti’s premiere was slight, but a way to show off Maria Kowroski, who retires in October.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:51PM“In Conversation With Merce,” a virtual program, features Merce Cunningham’s “Landrover” and responses to it, by Liz Gerring and Kyle Abraham.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMIn Colleen Thomas’s work at New York Live Arts, created and performed by women, the sense of pent-up release was strong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMThe up-and-coming company tried to deliver energy to an audience in Brooklyn with “Trapped,” but the last thing we need onstage is more screen time, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMTwo stars, Lauren Lovette of City Ballet and Jamar Roberts of Alvin Ailey, are retiring from the stage to focus on making dances.
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