Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s show “Fronteras” at the Joyce Theater has a group of very good and remarkably equal dancers sharing a bounded space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIn Martha Clarke’s piece about St. Francis of Assisi, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater, the song carries the dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMPrograms at the Joyce Theater feature early works that show how Taylor integrated the radical and the popular.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMMusicals like “MJ” and “Paradise Square” take on dance of the past — with some missed opportunities. But the dance in For Colored Girls” helps us to “remember what cannot be sa…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMThe fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is a terrific host, but this production at the Guggenheim Museum is awfully shaggy for an avian story, our critic writes.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:50PMThe year’s festival features local troupes. “The stories and music and dance that evolved here were just as important” as those from Africa, its director says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00AMThe group returns to the Joyce with a program that includes a new work, a Trisha Brown revival and a 2006 Petronio dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMBijayini Satpathy, a MetLiveArts artist in residence, pushed the borders of her Odissi classicism to meet the art around her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMYaa Samar! Dance Theater’s production at Gibney is an uncommonly deft combination of dance and verbal theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMWaltz’s dance to Terry Riley’s seminal score, at the Brooklyn Academy, is loose and cheerful, giving a spatial sense of the suspension of time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThe choreographer and dancer Shamel Pitts’s “Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon” at New York Live Arts is stylish and sincere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMThe company, belatedly celebrating its 75th anniversary, presented a program with works by Limón and Doris Humphrey and a premiere by Olivier Tarpaga.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:22PMThe Lagos-born, Ireland-raised dancer Mufutau Yusuf comes to the Irish Arts Center with “Owe,” a solo, he says, “about my ancestry, my Yoruba heritage.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMAt City Center, the company’s season began with a debut by its first resident choreographer, Lauren Lovette, and two masterly works by Taylor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMIn a program at the Joyce Theater, Brown’s company, Evidence, presented three dances that aren’t new but seem newly meaningful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:39PMThis 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.
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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.
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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.
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