Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Gabriel Mata is one of my favorite DC-based choreographers. He deploys movement in sophisticated structures without falling into oblique or self-involved and inaccessible formulae. He has a …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:53AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
There were ghosts in the Lang on last Saturday evening. The “Icons Choreographers’ Collective” began with a tribute to the late George Jackson. Jackson was a dance writer and author co…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:32PMFriday, May 9, 2025
“New Releases,” a recurring annual performance at Dance Place in Washington, DC showcasing the work of emerging local choreographers, was two shows in one. The first half of the progr…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:22PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Take your best superlatives. Throw them in a bag, shake it up, dump them out on the table, and that would be an accurate review of Acosta Danza’s “Cuban Ecléctico.” Gobsmacked, flabbe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:11PMSunday, April 20, 2025
Everyone in the audience jumped. The house lights were still all the way up as a thunderous crash reverberated through the Eisenhower. People scrambled for their seats as a second clap ech…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:13PMWednesday, April 9, 2025
“Ok Luna, let’s start the show.” A single dancer leaned forward, speaking to a blue light on the table. There was a moment, the house lights dimmed and the music began. Orange Grove D…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:13PMMonday, April 7, 2025
“MOON,” presented by Mark Morris Dance Group is one of a number of dance works featured by the Kennedy Center as part of the “Earth to Space” festival. Other works coming as part of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37PMSunday, March 30, 2025
Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia in NYCB’s production of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s “Coppélia.” Photo by Erin Baiano. It was encouraging to see so many children at Thursda…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:41PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
The first half of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham’s performance in The Kay Theater at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center was a reprise of their 2024 appearance at the George Mason Center for t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
I parked in Bristol 10. Two floors down, and on the opposite side of the Kennedy Center from the Eisenhower Theater where, in twenty minutes, the curtain would go up on the closing performan…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:54PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Thursday night was the Washington premier of “Crime and Punishment,” presented by the American Ballet Theater(ABT). It is based on the novel by Dostoyevsky, with choreography by Helen Pi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PMFriday, November 8, 2024
Full Circle Dance Company’s “From the Source of Our Power” at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium was a well-curated and well-attended affair featuring work by choreog…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Ballet Hispánico is one of my favorite American dance companies. Their performance of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Doña Perón” at the Kennedy Center in 2022 is among the best shows I ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18PMThursday, October 3, 2024
You can’t watch the dancing people in front of your own eyes if you are looking at TikTok. Although choreographer and Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance, Madeleine “Max” Roman, made…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
It’s more than a little surprising that the Inaugural Latinx Movement Festival is just that—inaugural. It was well-curated by local dancer and choreographer,, Gabriel Mata, following a t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
It’s hard to believe that in over 40 years of performing, their appearance last week in the Eisenhower Theater marked San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Kennedy Center debut.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Making their Kennedy Center debut in the Eisenhower Theater, Sydney Dance Company’s “Impermanence” put a spotlight on the dancers’ ensemble work as well as director Rafael Bonachela�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMMonday, April 22, 2024
The Martha Graham Dance Company won’t officially turn 100 until 2026, but as the oldest dance company in the United States, you can’t blame them for starting the party a little early. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
There is always something special about seeing dance in a space where you are so close to the performers you could reach out and touch them. Synergy Space, a converted dance studio space abo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:06AMFriday, March 29, 2024
It would be easy to forget that the performers in Saturday night’s performance by the students of the George Mason University Dance Company are just that—students. I have seen plenty of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Ballet 5:8, a contemporary dance company with strong religious influences based in Chicago, arrived on tour at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts last Saturday where they were joined f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Grupo Corpo’s performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House featured a double bill of works by founding choreographer, Rodrigo Pederneiras. Founded in 1975, Grupo Corpo (Body Group) is one…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PMFriday, February 23, 2024
It would be easy to review opening night of American Ballet Theater’s “Swan Lake” at the Kennedy Center Opera House (featuring the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Ev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:02PMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Last Saturday night’s performance featuring “A.I.M by Kyle Abraham” was a showcase of the company’s virtuosity and versatility and the culmination of their week-long residency at Geo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AMMonday, October 23, 2023
I want to start by saying that as a White, male dance writer with the suspected ballet-modern-postmodern background, there are plenty of ways in which I am ill equipped to cover Saturday nig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:22PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Now in its third season, the Black Choreographers Festival runs October 13-15 at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. It will feature works by 15 choreographers over two performances along wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:52PMSunday, September 3, 2023
This past Wednesday night’s performance at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center was a historic event. John Butler’s “Carmina Burana” premiered in 1959. Original cast member and icon of Americ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Synetic Theater’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a gloriously silly, but tragic, romp based loosely on Edmond Rostand’s play of the same name which follows the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
“Finding Home: Dance Journeys,” part of the 2023 Capital Fringe Festival at the DCJCC’s Cafritz Hall, featured works by choreographers Giselle Ruzany, Kyoko Fujimoto, Sylvana Christoph…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Perhaps it is an unfair criticism of a performance that is meant to showcase the foundations and history of one of the oldest dance companies in America, but when you’re putting together a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
This past weekend’s “Kinetic Crossings” at Baltimore Theater Project was a visual feast, featuring performances by Baltimore-based Deep Vision Dance Company and Japanese choreographer …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30PM 
