Saturday, 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 the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Picket…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 choreographers …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 a p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 tried…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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. Kin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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's choreo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Monday, 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. The pe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 less…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Evan Rog…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 George Maso…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 American dance, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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, the soldi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Christopher and…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 p…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 and pe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]And then there was one. In 2015, The Atlantic published an article called "The Death Of The American Dance Critic." It lamented the fact that, with Gia Kourlas' departure from Time Out New Y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2023
Ballet Theater of Maryland's "Momentum: A Mixed Bill" was a full evening of dance. It featured six performances by five choreographers"Lindsey Bell, Roman Mykyta, Ashley Taylor, Karissa Kral…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
Rhizome DC is one of those venues that, even if you've been there before, feels like a secret. From the outside it looks like a Shel Silverstein illustration, an old house sketched in by the…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Gabriel Mata's performance at Dance Loft on 14 was one of those performances that doesn't end when you walk out of the theater; you have to sit with his work and let the ideas marinate. Mata…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2023
This Friday and Saturday, Dance Loft on 14 presents a deeper look into past, present, and future dance works of D.C.-based artist, Gabriel Mata. Gabriel Mata (pronounced: gah-bryehl mah-tah)…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
Now in their 22nd season, Baltimore's Full Circle Dance Company has a thoughtful model for producing an evening of dance. The company's annual mixed-repertory performance is carefully curate…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:37PM[SHARE] 
