Why 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:44AMDiscipline and abandon gave the dancer an ingrained elegance, an internal organization of the body that you sense even when it’s not pronounced.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dances for the Broadway revival swarm and sweep, but Robbins’s choreography was something more central: the libretto.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMAlexandria Wailes deftly weaves choreography and American Sign Language in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMEphrat Asherie collaborates with her jazz pianist brother to place Ernesto Nazareth’s music in a world of breaking, house, hip-hop and vogue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMIn Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart’s “Falling & Loving,” dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Machine, which emits a waterfall of food andother objects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMIn Al Blackstone’s show, the songs are what set the characters on their journey, not the steps.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMRaja Feather Kelly, who has left his mark on several Off Broadway shows, specializes in what he calls “virtuosic behavior.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06AMThe choreographer and performance artist Ann Liv Young is using her Bushwick apartment — and her daughters and animals — in her version of “Antigone.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThe choreographer John Heginbotham and the director Daniel Fish want the dance to “change the way we experience the show.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PMThe wife-and-husband team of Sara Mearns and Joshua Bergasse talk about working together on “I Married an Angel” for Encores! Reader, she Lindy Hops.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMGaspar Noé’s “Climax” is the latest movie to push the ecstatic, frightening qualities of dance into horror. A body holds plenty of space for terror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMThe choreographer Camille A. Brown deftly uses the tradition of step to add “a heartbeat to the story” of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s musical play, now on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMA talk with the director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw: “The world has gotten so serious. It’s time to be on a dance floor together.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMAmar Ramasar, Brittany Pollack and Craig Salstein get a chance to stretch on Broadway. With Justin Peck, they talk about the challenges and rewards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMUsing intricate choreography and cues, the Angel Shadows — dancers and puppeteers — propel the Angel into the air and operate her heavy wings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThey tried early spring, late spring and Harvey Weinstein. But the Rockettes have yet to create a warm-weather franchise to rival their Christmas show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThe choreographer Mandy Moore worked on Damien Chazelle’s movie musical. Among her jobs: teaching Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling how to dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:35AMMs. Pazcoguin, a soloist with the New York City Ballet, plays the elegant Victoria in the current revival of “Cats” on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37AMChristopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of this Shakespearean romance, performed by the National Ballet of Canada, is part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PMThe choreographer Christopher Gattelli’s “No Dames!” number in the film offered Mr. Tatum a showcase and took him out of his comfort zone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMPamela Tatge, the director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, is to take over beginning April 18.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PM“The Seditious Conspiracy Theater Presents: A Monument to the Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera” casts the imprisoned man as a victim.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:44PMMs. Walley-Beckett, a “Breaking Bad” writer, applies a similar sensibility to the dance world in a new series for Starz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:44PMMs. Copeland, of American Ballet Theater, is briefly playing the role of Ivy, a.k.a. Miss Turnstiles, in the hit Jerome Robbins revival at the Lyric Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:46PMThe museum will showcase the work of Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton, who brought an intense, highly choreographed whirlwind of unison dancing and brutal slapstick to the East Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMIn “Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake” at City Center, Mr. Bourne’s reinterpretation of a classic raises the ballet’s inherent sexiness and gives Tchaikovsky’s m…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe film, an “American Masters” episode directed by Ric Burns, features interviews with critics, dancers and directors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMThis dance-theater work from Mark Dendy at Joe’s Pub includes a cast of historical and contemporary characters from Astor Place and the surrounding area.
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