For the dancer, choreographer and director Francesca Harper, an “Ailey baby,” this new role is also a homecoming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMThis season Beach Sessions has just one dance: “Repose,” a meditative, durational work by Moriah Evans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMDuring the pandemic Clara Miller stretched beyond dance to find another artistic voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMA selection of New Yorkers reflecting on their pandemic experiences became part of this piece, conceived and choreographed by Andrea Miller.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:05PMJamila Wignot explores the life of Alvin Ailey in a new documentary that brings a choreographer to life through movement and words.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:46AMThis creative performance experiment presents a roving adventure through space with Aunts Goes Public!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22AMGeorgina Pazcoguin, a New York City Ballet soloist, has written a page-turner of a memoir.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PMWhat does it mean to watch and move through space, in dance and in life? As we emerge from the pandemic, we still have a moment to hold on to all that’s slow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe movie’s choreographic team, led by Christopher Scott, gets raw and real with dancers — so many! — who give in to thrilling perpetual motion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PMKaty Pyle’s company, Ballez, performs “Giselle of Loneliness,” a queer reimagining of the classic at the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMKyle Marshall’s new works, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Shed, are about “creating something that actually feels joyful.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn her evolving exploration of identity, Leslie Cuyjet is breaking out as a choreographer, making work that is both conceptual and personal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMMolly Lieber and Eleanor Smith present their latest work, a fierce, feminist look at objectification at Abrons Arts Center’s outdoor Amphitheater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMIn a new production for the vast Drill Hall at the Armory, the idea is to let the trauma of a strange and unsettling year sink in: for better or worse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PMFor Gavin Larsen, the author of “Being a Ballerina,” the drama of a life spent in dance is the dancing. Period.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMStephen Petronio’s virtual program, presented by the Joyce Theater, explores isolation, longing and legacy, but doesn’t take those issues to a deeper place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMSince March, the Brooklynettes have performed live at Barclays Center to crowds that are smaller than usual — but huge for dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMHer film for City Ballet’s virtual spring gala, featuring a new solo by Justin Peck, explores the nooks and crannies of the company’s theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMThe New York City Ballet legend, who went on to form National Dance Institute, lived to the fullest — and danced with that same spirit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMAs part of a digital program presented by the Joyce, the Trisha Brown Dance Company focuses on early movement invention.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMAs part of GrahamFest95, the choreographer’s dance company celebrates its 95th anniversary with four films pairing dances with works by Hauser & Wirth artists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMMany dancers have taken advantage of a byproduct of the pandemic — time away from performing — to try out a new role: motherhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMIn a haunting new digital work, “Whale Fall,” Mayfield Brooks mourns Black bodies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:23AMCasel’s joyful and generous spirit is as vivid as ever in a new virtual presentation by the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music presented its first live performance in more than a year: Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMAlexei Ratmansky returns to the stage with a playful Bernstein ballet, while Netta Yerushalmy revives a darker moment in time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PM“American Masters: Twyla Moves,” a new PBS documentary, is also a portrait of a singular dancer over time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAn elite male principal. A veteran ballerina. A rising apprentice. Three dancers talk about life and work during the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:08AMLauren Lovette, the New York City Ballet principal, is retiring from the company but not from dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:53PMWith performances on pause, many dancers are rethinking their relationship to weight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMWhy is it so hard to show the dance world as it is? This Netflix series about students at a ballet school is yet another cartoonish depiction.
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