Thursday, May 2, 2024
With choreography by Kate Prince and 27 songs by Sting, this story of refugees has impressive dance moments, but handles narrative and emotion tritely.
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In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
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Monday, April 15, 2024
As Harlem Stage’s E-Moves dance series turns 25, Bill T. Jones and other major choreographers discuss its impact on Black dance in New York.
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“We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.
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Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
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As the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved, it has trained dancers and choreographers for tenacity as much as technique.
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Monday, March 25, 2024
A new work, “The White Feather” is inspired by the history of the Iranian National Ballet, which went dark during the Islamic Revolution and was never revived.
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The Afro-Colombian company Sankofa Danzafro presents “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel” at the Joyce Theater.
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With Judson Dance Theater and elsewhere, he expanded the possibilities of what dance could be, developing works around basic tasks like eating a pear or simply walking.
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“Deep River,” featuring the choreographer’s company, Lines Ballet, has a meditative flow without much grit.
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Jean Butler’s “What We Hold,” at the Irish Arts Center, is an installation-like work that seeks restrained classicism in a post-“Riverdance” world.
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Philadanco! returns to New York with four premieres that highlight the dancers’ skills without revealing much deeper artistry.
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Tiler Peck, a New York City Ballet star, is making her first work for the company. “It’s my opportunity to pass on to the next generation anything that’s been given to me.”
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He worked with the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor troupes and then created his own group, Dan Wagoner and Dancers.
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The highlight of the street dance festival “Motion/Matter” at the Perelman Performing Arts Center came at the end: an all-styles battle that honored roots.
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Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein’s picaresque “Deepe Darknesse” models itself on the randomness of an ancient Roman novel, “The Golden Ass.”
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
An exhibition at New York Public Library tells a different, more inclusive story about the genealogy of an art form.
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“The March” explores unison, while “Is It Thursday Yet?” concerns a dancer’s struggle to understand herself after receiving a diagnosis of autism.
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The tap dancer Caleb Teicher and the beatboxer Chris Celiz have expanded an earlier collaboration into an evening-length work at the Joyce Theater.
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New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary celebration and Dance Reflections from France delivered some of this year’s brightest moments.
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Amy Hall Garner is readying the new work “Century” for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on the heels of other premieres and with more to come.
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The five dance selections that are part of the Dance Reflections festival take varied approaches to piano exercises written by Philip Glass.
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Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s hybrid show, “Adaku, Part 1,” about a precolonial African village, mixes dance theater, song and drama.
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The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it’s an Off Broadway musical.
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The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
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