Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:59AMLiang, 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMGregory 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMOlivier Tarpaga’s “Once the dust settles, the flowers bloom” is a subtle work of beauty and mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PMThe festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can’t it give them better programs?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:52PMWanjiru Kamuyu’s solo performance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens isn’t a straightforward immigration story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMThe production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMMatthew Lutz-Kinoy’s “Filling Station” has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its “glimmer of queer liberation.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AMBalanchine 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMJody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right — and vital to democracy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMEngaging viewers’ bodies is central to this Broadway musical, a rare production that sets its audience in motion on the dance floor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMStormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe choreographer and his Puremovement troupe brought their touring show, “Nuttin’ but a Word,” to Prospect Park for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PM“One Dance,” part of Korean Arts Week at Lincoln Center, puts a contemporary spin on rituals and ceremonies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including “duel c” on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:52PMCarlota 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMBallet 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:47PMMack, whom one student called an agent of change, wants to “create a place where people feel like themselves” — and a model for the professional world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMThe dancer, also known as HallowDreamz, is the face of krump in New York. Now he’s found another artistic home with the choreographer Andrea Miller.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMTwo South Asian dance troupes, Nrityagram and Chitrasena, exemplars of different styles, team up for a program at the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:45PMIs theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMJuliana May’s “Family Happiness” at Abrons Arts Center at times feels like a punishing exercise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:53PMThe spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMA premiere by Judith Sánchez Ruíz goes its own way but, like Brown’s work, shows an active, questioning mind and a sensual physicality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMShamel Pitts’s “Touch of Red,” at New York Live Arts, takes place in a boxing ring. It’s not a competition, though. It’s a relationship.
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