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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Clarice Lispector’s Novel ‘Água Viva’ Inspires a Dance Work by Marina Harss

Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz’s new work, “Água Viva,” is loosely inspired by Lispector’s novel.

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Saturday, June 17, 2023

It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist by Marina Harss

Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” is a new kind of endeavor for the company: a full-length work based on a contemporary novel and popular film.

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Friday, May 26, 2023

Exploring the Majesty and Mystery of Sor Juana in Dance by Marina Harss

Michelle Manzaneles’s new work for Ballet Hispánico is, she says, “a way of going personal through another person’s story.”

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? by Marina Harss

With a new biography and a production of “Les Noces,” the time has come to reconsider the choreographer, whose work and reputation have languished since .

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

An Ad Hoc Ukrainian Ballet Troupe Settles Into Life in The Hague by Marina Harss

The dancers in the United Ukrainian Ballet have found a home in the Netherlands. This week the company makes its U.S. debut in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Giselle.”

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Friday, December 2, 2022

New York City Ballet’s Sterling Hyltin Prepares for a Final Bow by Marina Harss

After a season of saying farewell to cherished roles, the City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin prepares to take her final bow in “The Nutcracker.”

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

A New Leader at New York Theater Ballet and a Call for New Audiences by Marina Harss

Dance entered Steven Melendez’s life when Diana Byer met him at the shelter where he was living as a child. Now he runs the company she started.

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths at the Met Museum by Marina Harss

Bijayini Satpathy has been remaking herself as an artist with the help of a residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet by Marina Harss

Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most important figures in ballet, is supporting Ukraine by staging “Giselle” with a company made up of Ukrainian refugees.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Alexei Ratmansky’s Epic Ballet Arrives in a Changed World by Marina Harss

Getting its delayed New York premiere, “Of Love and Rage,” at Ballet Theater, is like a time capsule of a more carefree period of Ratmansky’s life and art.

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles by Marina Harss

A program of early works at the Joyce Theater shows a different, more experimental side of the choreographer.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

An Interrupted Conversation: The Flamenco Festival Returns by Marina Harss

Despite an impressive roster, including Manuel Liñán’s “Viva!,” this year’s edition, the 20th, represents a radically streamlined version of the festival.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home by Aurelien Breeden and Marina Harss

Opera houses and theaters in European cities are offering to help fleeing or stranded ballet dancers, even as many are still stuck in Ukraine.

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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Alexei Ratmansky, With Family in Kyiv, Leaves His Ballet in Moscow by Marina Harss

The New York-based choreographer, who was working on a new ballet for the Bolshoi, said he doubted he would return to Russia to work “if Putin is still president.”

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ by Marina Harss

It has taken Miami City Ballet six years to get the Alexei Ratmansky production — the biggest and most expensive in the company’s history — off the ground.

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language by Marina Harss

“I was thinking about Balanchine a lot,” said Roberts, Ailey’s choreographer in residence, who is making his first work for New York City Ballet.

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Friday, December 17, 2021

The Joyce Theater Plans to Welcome Back the World by Marina Harss

The spring-summer season is to include groups from abroad, as well as performances the Paul Taylor company, Dormeshia and others.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater by Marina Harss

Thomas Forster, promoted to principal dancer during the pandemic, makes his New York debut in “Giselle” as the company returns to Lincoln Center.

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Friday, October 15, 2021

Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebounds by Marina Harss

The pandemic was disastrous for tango. But milongas are thriving around the city now, capped by the return of Queer Tango Weekend.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The Joyce Returns, With a Typically Eclectic Dance Menu by Marina Harss

The season features 18 companies, including some, like Malpaso from Cuba, whose shows were canceled last year.

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Friday, May 28, 2021

Carla Fracci, Expressive Doyenne of Italian Ballet, Dies at 84 by Marina Harss

A major figure in 20th-century dance, she was acclaimed for her directness and emotional naturalness onstage, especially in the title role of “Giselle.”

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Friday, May 7, 2021

Summer Dance Preview by Marina Harss

Major companies return with outdoor performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center, and more.

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Friday, February 26, 2021

Alexei Ratmansky: From Hibernation to Bubble Bernstein by Marina Harss

One of the busiest choreographers in ballet is back in the studio, thanks to bubble protocols. “For what I do, and for the language I use, the stage is needed,” Ratmansky said.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance by Marina Harss

Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Juan Carlos Copes, Who Brought Tango to Broadway, Dies at 89 by Marina Harss

Mr. Copes, along with his partner María Nieves Rego, helped take tango out of the social club and make it an international craze. He died of complications of Covid-19.

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Friday, May 18, 2018

Michelle Dorrance Makes Noise at the American Ballet Theatre by Marina Harss

Marina Harss writes about Michelle Dorrance, a tap innovator working with the American Ballet Theatre who wants to bring a little noise to ballet.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, Dancing to Improve the World by Marina Harss

Buck and Boogz are idealists who want to bring dance to new audiences. Their stage show, “Love Heals All Wounds,” takes on contemporary social ills.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Basil Twist’s Fantastic Feathered World (With Tinsel and Berlioz) by Marina Harss

The musical puppetry of Mr. Twist’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” returning to HERE for a three-month run, blurs the line between eye and ear.

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Friday, March 2, 2018

Spring Dance Preview: New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre’s Duelling Seasons by Marina Harss

The two big New York-based ballet companies perform at Lincoln Center, and Dance Theatre of Harlem returns.

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Monday, December 25, 2017

Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) - The New York Times by Marina Harss

Not too long ago, Robert Fairchild played a young god — Apollo — at New York City Ballet. Now, just two months after retiring from the company to try his luck in musical theater, he find…

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Bill T Jones: legendary choreographer leaps into the unknown by Marina Harss

Springing from the New York avant-garde scene of the 70s, Jones has spent 40 years exploring narratives from Abraham Lincoln to Aids in dance. Now he’s turned to the work of WG Sebald – …

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