At the Kennedy Center, an effervescent cast lifts a production geared to excite.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:06PMA dancer, director and conductor reflect on what Putin’s funding, and his war in Ukraine, mean for the arts in Russia.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18AMThe state-controlled news agency Tass reported that Putin asked loyalist conductor Valery Gergiev to consider the idea of merging Moscow’s Bolshoi and its St. Petersburg rival.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMGetting back onstage won’t be easy for some time, observers say. But there’s some good news ahead, too.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12AMUkrainian ballet dancers take up arms as ballet world responds to Russian invasion.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AMWhen the drums vanished from enslaved Africans’ hands, the beat leaped into the body — and into American culture.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMHighlights across the country include Mark Morris, Lil Buck, American Ballet Theatre and “Reframing the Narrative” at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AM“I’m not going to say, ‘Hooray, I’m celebrating and everything is great.’ It’s just not true. People have lost their whole careers," says the outspoken choreographer.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36AM“I can make the shape, but what is the intention and the attitude behind that? The people who worked with Michael and danced with him understand that,” the choreographer says of creating…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18AMEun Won Lee and Gian Carlo Perez add depth to a visually striking but uneven production, which runs through Sunday.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMAn answer to the youthful dances typically featured on TikTok, there’s no song to lip-sync, no moves to copy — just pure joy, delivered by great artists of the dance world.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03AMFundamental human values are the focus of this 50th-anniversary festival: unconventional joys, convulsive histories and social justice.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33AMHow do you move dancers around in a studio when everyone’s got to stay six feet apart? The answer defines the two premieres given by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:06PM“In the quiet ... I could hear my choreographic voice again,” says the artist, whose troupe will be at the Kennedy Center Feb 1-6 .
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42AMGetting through the past two years has left these dancers with new perspectives on mental health, their bodies and their art.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:33AMThe former New York City Ballet dancer says that while working with Spielberg on the remake of the classic movie musical, he showed the director how movement is its own language.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42AMDespite the covid confinement, dance artists found many ways to unleash their creativity.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24AMWorld premiere of ‘An Ella’quent Holiday Swing’ turns the Eisenhower Theater into a swinging jazz party.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PMAfter a non-“Nutcracker” year, the holiday ballet returns with a satisfying, traditional take.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:03PMNo kids under 12? Virus-tested tykes in custom-designed masks? Protocols vary. But please don’t breathe on the musicians.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18AMThe London-based choreographer is on his final tour of this searing solo performance.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMIn “Dancing Is the Best Medicine,” two neuroscientists examine why dance is good for heart, brain and soul.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03AMAdvocates see troubling signs that the art form, routinely under financial stress, may be shrinking and its structures drastically changing.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03AMIn “Grace” and “Mercy,” love and connection are central in unexpected ways.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PMThe fitness guru, who lacks a connection with his partner, could learn from the show’s same-sex couple, Jojo Siwa and Jenna Johnson.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:03PM“Age doesn’t matter if you keep evolving,” says Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of the Urban Bush Women dance troupe.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:03AMFirst in-person dance performance at the arts complex since the pandemic feels like a celebration of perseverance through deprivation.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PM“The pandemic sped up the process,” Baltimore native Jessica Pinkett says of her decidion to leave Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to become a filmmaker.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:06AMPerformers in such dance-centric shows as “The Lion King,” “Chicago” and “Hamilton” are flexing an inner strength while they relearn the steps they haven’t done in 18 months.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:24AMPaul Taylor’s “Company B,” Akram Khan in his D.C. debut and new dance films fill stages and screens.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:36AMBy giving large sums to some arts groups you may not have heard of, the philanthropist links culture and social progress.
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