Friday, November 17, 2023
The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
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Monday, November 13, 2023
He became known for his “layered movement dialogue” and was an uncommonly dedicated teacher who mentored students over decades.
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His company’s debut program at the Joyce Theater has three New York premieres, including one about the Black roots of rock.
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A new work by Larry Keigwin and a company premiere by Ulysses Dove join programs that benefit from live music.
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Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
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A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by William Christie, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on Thursday.
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Jake Roxander’s soaring Puck in “The Dream” was the highlight of American Ballet Theater’s final two programs this fall, the first season programmed by Susan Jaffe.
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A new “Pal Joey” at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.
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Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
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Liang, a choreographer who has run BalletMet in Ohio for 10 years, is the first Asian American to lead a ballet company of this size and stature.
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Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi’s “Broken Chord” considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England and North America.
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Two dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center are part of Christopher Williams’s project of reimagining, and often queering, works by Diaghilev’s company.
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Sunday, October 1, 2023
The festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can’t it give them better programs?
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Wanjiru Kamuyu’s solo performance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens isn’t a straightforward immigration story.
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The production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday.
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Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s “Filling Station” has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its “glimmer of queer liberation.”
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Balanchine didn’t think his ballets would last. But many have become classics, the cornerstone of repertory not just at City Ballet but around the world.
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Alexis Blake’s “Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve,” her first work to be shown in New York, focuses on strength and fragility.
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The choreography on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour doesn’t ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use her simple moves to her advantage.
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Jody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right — and vital to democracy.
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Engaging viewers’ bodies is central to this Broadway musical, a rare production that sets its audience in motion on the dance floor.
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Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.
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The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.
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The choreographer and his Puremovement troupe brought their touring show, “Nuttin’ but a Word,” to Prospect Park for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
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“One Dance,” part of Korean Arts Week at Lincoln Center, puts a contemporary spin on rituals and ceremonies.
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The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including “duel c” on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes.
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Carlota Santana is neither a star performer nor a choreographer. But her skills as a director have kept her company an active part of the New York scene.
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An arts program in a California state facility disproves the idea that “nobody dances in prison,” encouraging inmates to channel their lives and emotions into movement.
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Ballet Hispánico debuts two works: one about the 17th-century nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the other, “Papagayos,” featuring a supernatural hat.
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