“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe Australian Ballet’s premiere of “Oscar,” based on the life of Oscar Wilde, explores the love relationship between two men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMThroughout her career and on “Downton Abbey,” she perfected the role of the commanding Englishwoman with an arrow-sharp wit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMOriginal cast members look back at George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s staging of the 19th-century ballet. “Everyone knows when something is good,” one said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMAtri Banerjee has channeled his own experiences into a new production of John Osborne’s groundbreaking 1956 work “Look Back in Anger.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThe plucky London City Ballet collapsed in 1996. Now it’s getting a second life with a new mission: to stage little-known, small-scale works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMJean-Paul Montanari’s career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMJohn Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe festival, the final one for its longtime director, started with a bravura work by Wayne McGregor that was at once otherworldly and deeply human.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMMany remarkable performances fueled the Royal’s mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company’s founding choreographer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMBenjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée — a daylong event in Paris and its environs — wants “to tell the invisible stories of the city.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16AMBenjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:56PMThe summer’s Vail Dance Festival features Mearns, the New York City Ballet star, and the choreographer Roberts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PMAt 42, Cojocaru has no desire to stop dancing. Instead, she commissioned and is producing a ballet, “La Strada,” in which she will dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMAt La Scala, Ratmansky’s original choreography makes details and nuances of the story pop, as if a carapace of formulaic interpretation has been cracked open.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMThe stage designer and artist Es Devlin brings decades of work to life in an experiential monograph and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMThe company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMFerri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMThe fall dance calendar began with English National Ballet under new leadership. Then came Royal Ballet’s “Don Quixote” and “Black Sabbath: The Ballet.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMChristian Spuck, a choreographer of narrative ballets, has taken the helm at the Staatsballett Berlin after years of strife for the troupe. Can he turn it around?
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMIt’s been cathartic to “create art from places of torment,” the singer-actor said ahead of the opening of “Sunset Boulevard” in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25AMThe Lyon Dance Biennial, now under new leadership, is doubling down on its efforts to attract in a wide public.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PMThe program featured three living female choreographers but not much in the way of traditional ballet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMOriginal cast members talk about their experiences making the three-part plotless ballet, which opens New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMCharmatz’s first new work for the company founded by Pina Bausch was a messy, meandering grab-bag of ideas and inspirations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:35AMAs Waltz’s Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMThe former American Ballet Theater star now leads the Australian Ballet. “When I am faced with difficulties, I lean into them,” he said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMTanztheater Wuppertal unveiled its first season under Boris Charmatz, as well as plans for a new, multipurpose center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PMThe British actress is reprising her role as the Jewish physician at the center of an ethical drama. “It’s like a tailored suit,” the director Robert Icke said.
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