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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Julio Bocca, Former Star Dancer, to Run Argentina’s National Ballet by Marina Harss

Bocca, who retired from American Ballet Theater in 2006, will lead the company at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

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Monday, October 14, 2024

The Ballet Star Isaac Hernández Comes to American Ballet Theater by Marina Harss

“He has it all,” said Susan Jaffe, the artistic leader of American Ballet Theater. Hernández, already a veteran star, is joining the company as a principal.

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Monday, September 16, 2024

When a Hardworking Tour Is a Break From Wartime Stress by Marina Harss

National Ballet of Ukraine dancers will perform Alexei Ratmansky’s “Wartime Elegy” in New York. Touring is “like taking a break,” one said, “because we can finally sleep.”

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Calvin Royal Creates a Ballet Festival With Intention and Care by Marina Harss

With “Unite,” a festival he planned and curated at the Joyce Theater, Royal is “taking the time to do things right,” he said.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

‘So Far From Ukraine’: A Princely Dancer Finds a Home in Miami by Marina Harss

Stanislav Olshanskyi has had to battle homesickness and adjust to Miami City Ballet’s style: quick, light, constantly in motion. He’s also the prince in “Swan Lake.”

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Saturday, March 23, 2024

How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Bayadère’? Send In the Cowboys. by Marina Harss

A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones.

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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Flamenco Festival, With Olga Pericet, Includes Paco de Lucía Tributes by Marina Harss

Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Jean Butler Choreographs the Past and Future of Irish Dance by Marina Harss

In “What We Hold” at the Irish Arts Center, the “Riverdance” star turned contemporary choreographer returns to Irish dance with an inquiring lens.

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Saturday, February 10, 2024

Haunted by War in Ukraine, a Choreographer Steps Into New York City Ballet by Marina Harss

Alexei Ratmansky, arguably the most important ballet choreographer today, has made a deeply personal first work as artist in residence that reflects his Ukrainian roots.

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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Pina Bausch’s ‘Rite of Spring’ Takes Root in Africa by Marina Harss

A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny.

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Movement and Memory: Dance Love and Dance Rejection in Ireland by Marina Harss

Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with his partner Rachel Poirier on “How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.

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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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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime