THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Kyle Abraham on his "Dear Lord Make Me Beautiful" Premiering at the Park Avenue Armory by The Dance Enthusiast

"I mean, it is really a prayer. It’s a prayer in all of the ways. It's a prayer for me...And separate from me, it’s also a conversation with nature; watching nature and the environment c…

IMPRESSIONS: Garth Fagan Dance at The Joyce Theater by The Dance Enthusiast

"Choreographer Garth Fagan, 84 years of age, (and the winner of Tony and Olivier awards for Broadway’s Lion King), presented his dances and those of close associates at the Joyce Theater, …

IMPRESSIONS: Levi Gonzalez “Hoary” at The Chocolate Factory Theater by The Dance Enthusiast

"With its mythic histories and dreamlike departures, “Hoary” attends to place as an unstable entity constituted by human, animal, material, ecological, and temporal elements." Sarah Ceci…

IMPRESSIONS: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE SIGNATURE WORKS by The Dance Enthusiast

"Seeing a program twice on consecutive evenings is a gamble, but I feel I won the lottery!" Henning Rübsam, New York

POSTCARDS: Dancer Joe González on Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s 30th Anniversary by The Dance Enthusiast

"There is much choreography to be learned between these resurfacing pieces and premieres, but it has been worth the task [...] Doing this has inspired my rehearsals and will bring an added l…

IMPRESSIONS: [RE]DEFINING [SPACE] at Triskelion Arts by The Dance Enthusiast

"As a whole, the program invites us to experience the intersection of space and identity. Each performer offers a heartfelt investigation of their use of Triskelion’s transformative space …

IMPRESSIONS: Netta Yerushalmy MOVEMENT at NYU Skirball by The Dance Enthusiast

"Dancemaker Netta Yerushalmy approaches the question of newness in dance through a voracious engagement with the archive. Her 2018 PARAMODERNITIES lecture-performance series spanned six bril…

IMPRESSIONS: American Ballet Theatre’s "Crime and Punishment" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The production’s driving element, however, was Herman Cornejo’s expressive performance as Raskolnikov.  Cornejo makes the character’s tortured inner landscape visible and palpable. …

DANCE NEWS: New In! Robert Battle is Now Resident Choreographer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company by The Dance Enthusiast

“Robert Battle brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to Taylor. I’m deeply gratified that he accepted this position." — Michael Novak, Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance…

IMPRESSIONS: Maureen Fleming's The Alchemist's Veil at La MaMa by The Dance Enthusiast

The Alchemist’s Veil at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre features Fleming’s 90 minutes of dance, film and music inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. Comprised of nine scenes…

POSTCARDS: Paul Taylor Dancers' Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak On Their Experiences This Dancing Season by The Dance Enthusiast

See Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak Dance with their Talented Castmates during Paul Taylor's Season at Lincoln Center November 5th thru November 24th!

IMPRESSIONS: Jakob and Imani at Hudson Yards by The Dance Enthusiast

"There, in between the park’s fountains,  they are greeted by visual artist Jakob Vitale’s tall, wooden cityscape mural. Booming music vibrates near his painting playground. As people …

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Jody Sperling Brings La Loie to The Paul Taylor Season by The Dance Enthusiast

"As Jody Sperling hoped, these two Taylor dancers have taken her Loie Fuller inspired, yet contemporary dances inside of themselves to make something very special, old yet new.  It will be…

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet — All Peck Program by The Dance Enthusiast

"All Peck"celebrates Justin Peck’s decade as New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer. In the grand walls of the David H. Koch Theater, a highlight of All Peck is the mini-documenta…

IMPRESSIONS: Edges of Ailey at The Whitney Museum of American Art by The Dance Enthusiast

Activist, dancer, and choreographer, Alvin Ailey stands at the fulcrum of the Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition running through February 9, 2025. This show was six years in the ma…

IMPRESSIONS: Paris Opera Ballet dances William Forsythe and Johan Inger in their 2024-2025 Season Opener by The Dance Enthusiast

"Rearray, originally created for Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 2011 for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas La Riche, is both beautiful and glaringly harsh." - Ann Moradian

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center FALL FOR DANCE 2024 - Programs 4 and 5 by The Dance Enthusiast

"One cannot help but follow Trenary’s every step on her transfixing journey, as she pushes the boundaries of what a single dancer can do in terms of energy and endurance." Hennin…

DANCE NEWS: CUNY Dance Initiative Announces Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops by The Dance Enthusiast

CUNY Dance Initiative announces its Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops. As part of its residency program for NYC choreographers, the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI) sponsors classes, worksho…

DANCE NEWS: The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2024-2025 Fellows by The Dance Enthusiast

“We are thrilled to welcome this extraordinary group of fellows to CBA and NYU this academic year. Their diverse disciplines — including theater, choreography, art history, Black diaspor…

IMPRESSIONS : AINADAMAR: A Fountain of Tears at the Metropolitan Opera by The Dance Enthusiast

"Deborah Colker, the Brazilian director/choreographer, keeps the cast moving; the space seems to expand and contract as they billow out and in, and sometimes up. The cast, singers and dancer…

IMPRESSSIONS: The Batsheva Ensemble performs “Kamuyot” at 92Y by The Dance Enthusiast

"At the heart of the show is a proposal—an appeal to joy, an invitation to connect and be together in this time and place, and to dance." - Cecly Placenti, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: The Joffrey + Ballet in the US at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Part 2) by The Dance Enthusiast

IMPRESSIONS: Niall Jones “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson” at Danspace Project by The Dance Enthusiast

"stunned to be confronted by a flood of light ...darkness is only a comfort to the idle spectator...which you are notnot here...not tonight...maybe not ever again...shake awake the witness i…

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center Fall for Dance 2024 - Programs 2 and 3 by The Dance Enthusiast

"kNoname Artist / Roderick George is a company I was unfamiliar with, but that from now on I will seek out...George has made a moving work and his powerful dancers commit to it wholeheartedl…

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: The Joffrey + Ballet in the US at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Part 1) by The Dance Enthusiast

"The crush at the door for the Joffrey Ballet tickets at the Vienna Festival was so overwhelming that the city’s strict fire laws were broken, and people were herded in without seats for t…

IMPRESSIONS: Company Wayne McGregor at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park by The Dance Enthusiast

"Company Wayne McGregor from Britain took to the Mountain View stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY, umbrellaed by the splendid kitesurfer-like awning on sunny afternoons, October …

IMPRESSIONS: Alethea Pace's Site Specific "between wave and water" by The Dance Enthusiast

 "The last surviving image documenting the location where Africans...were laid to rest in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx is a 1910 photograph titled "Slave Burying Ground.” Alethea …

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: The Limón Dance Company Rehearsing José Limón's "The Traitor" by The Dance Enthusiast

“What is so spectacular about this work in particular, and what also makes it difficult to re stage, is that each each character, is having a individualistic experience of the events that …

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Works & Process presents Martha Graham Dance Company with Baye & Asa by The Dance Enthusiast

"Notably unlike Graham, Baye & Asa have not placed themselves front and center in their own work; and although the new Cortege contains solos, it is eminently an ensemble piece in which …

IMPRESSIONS: SOULSKIN Dance presents BEAUTY at Mark Morris Dance Center by The Dance Enthusiast

"BEAUTY unfolded as a total sensory experience with trippy projections, a diverse soundscape, and a contemporary ballet aesthetic." -Hanna Lieberman, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Dance and Process: Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, & Ogemdi Ude at The Kitchen by The Dance Enthusiast

"These artists challenge notions of performance through a participatory ethos that invites and implicates the spectator ... Together Anakwe, tye, and Ude offer an evening of generosity, aban…