
"The Tree is full of feeling, expressed in tight, sharp hand gestures, chainé turns with hair awhirl, and long flamingo-like legs that lift and stretch as they step or hiccup. But the emot…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Mostly, what I remember are umpteen lines and angles, overlapping bodies with arms and legs slicing out in all directions. Like the astonishing music, the overall choreographic landscape …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Imagine a free online platform explicitly geared to the dance field that combines the bonding and storytelling pleasure of Instagram and Facebook with Ancestry.com's ability to illustrate …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I create in a way to see the music. I think of it as painting the music, rather than dancing the music […] and using the dancers through time and space as a way of sort of painting flowin…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Start with Winter in Brief, parts 1 and 2 for highlights from Live Artery, Under the Radar, The Exponential Festival, and the Out-FRONT! Festival. I reflect on the rich variety of works I�…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"DOCF 2026 presents 33 films from 12 countries on February 6 - 9 in Symphony Space's The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater on the Upper West Side. Tobin Del Cuore's Through Memory and Jennifer …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"The evening begins in the Peter B. Lewis Theater with a showcase of Washington’s works Fearless, performed by Parsons Dance, and The 24/7 Diner, danced by her company, MasterZ at Work Dan…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I hope that [this project] generates space for people to reflect on their body image and self valuation...I find that it's especially hard to have these conversations given the pop culture …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Appearing in Under the Radar, Brokentalkers’ Bellow at the Irish Arts Center and Company Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho at Japan Society approach inherited traditions from different cultu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Gina and I get along really well. She just understands what I need and what I don't need. I'm totally open to all those kinds of things if they happen at the right time." — Lucinda Childs…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Ishmael Houston-Jones and Heidi Latsky have both devoted their careers to bodies that the dance field has not always known how to see without inherited assumptions: Black and brown bodies,…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I can’t help but notice how the spiraling architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for the Guggenheim’s rotunda accentuates the world Knight and Williams exist in. The museum’s w…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Festival season continued through January with more offerings from Live Artery, The Exponential Festival, and Under the Radar [...] Can you believe there’s more?! Stay tuned for Winter i…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM“The Prix isn’t just a competition; it is a place to grow and develop as an artist. The field is evolving, and we want to strengthen it. We want to create as many opportunities as possib…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Kevin Matthew Wong presents a compelling one-person show that blends inventive props, video interviews, singing, acting, and movement. Wong's deft performance skillfully incorporates the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"2nd Best Dance Company’s Slumber, presented at Triskelion Arts, in December, reimagines Sleeping Beauty through a blend of fairy tale and contemporary theatrical strategies. Written, dire…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMOgemdi Ude’s MAJOR at New York Live Arts: Majorette dance is an ensemble form birthed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities’s in the 1960s when marching-band majorettes put dow…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I'm interested in the responsibility of questioning Duncan's work. I don't think the dances will be lost. Many people have felt the responsibility and passed them on in their own way. I w…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Whew, I’m exhausted in the best way. Ready for more? I am! Stay tuned for Winter in Brief, Part 2, featuring even more from the January festival season. Happy dancegoing, everyone!" — …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I think that, in a way, I have been charged with always bringing the Black perspective to the front of my work. My mother was heavily involved in social activism, Black identity [...] And t…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Everything that we are as an organization now – we have this repertory company with nine really amazing dancers that does work by choreographers that I've admired my whole career, we have…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"The ballet has a two-dimensional, Pop Art-feel to it, with a Minimalist touch." — Ann Moradian, Paris
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"...with social media, there's so much visibility for our communities, but it’s in very small, 30 second clips on YouTube. And so the visibility is very accessible, but in a way that is co…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Das Rauschgift, the latest collaboration from Brooklyn-based dance-theatre duo Travis Amiel and Cosimo Pori (aka Das Besties) is a playful, exuberant, and ultimately tender tale about the t…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"At the intimate Triskelion Arts, Split Bill #47 presented two solos, works by Cristina Moya-Palacios and Ariana Speight, which spoke of identity, reflection, and memory." — Kristen Hedber…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"The work’s pervasive darkness seems only to deepen under Eliza Alexandropoulou’s masterfully architectural lighting, which draws the eye through the space with evanescent glows and dire…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn Of Dishes and Dreams, Keerati Jinakunwiphat finds the steady heartbeat that thrums beneath the bustle of restaurant life: one of rhythm, care, and community. Jinakunwiphat’s first even…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"With its hints at rave culture, a quartet of tuxedo-clad onstage musicians supplying a pulsating score of Middle Eastern folk-flavored, electronic rock music, and 13 dancers dazzlingly outf…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Two insightful programs at the Guggenheim Museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side featured a behind-the-scenes look at two American treasures: Dance Theatre of Harlem and American Ba…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMAfter decades of scandalous neglect, the late American choreographer Gerald Arpino (1923-2008) is at last receiving his due, in a two-week festival devoted to his works, September 30 to Octo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"It’s wonderful to see people fully exploring the space, exploring their bodies, and connecting with other people virtually who were strangers to them. I think that’s what’s pretty inc…
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