342 stories by "Brian Seibert"
Peck's "The Wind-Up," set to the first movement of the "Eroica" symphony, doesn't rise to the challenge of the music but is refreshing in other ways.
"Irrationalities," at the Joyce Theater, disappoints only if you are expecting Soledad Barrio, the company's world-class dancer, who is out with an injury.
"Sons of Echo," in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don't have a monopoly on bad taste.
The company revived and revised a work that juxtaposes formal movement with a sound score that incorporates recordings of the 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco.
Dahlak Brathwaite's "Try/Step/Trip," part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.
An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
New works by Jamar Roberts and Matthew Neenan had their premieres at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Ephrat Asherie's "Shadow Cities" pairs her group's adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O'Farrill.
After 40 years of making dances as complicated as human consciousness, Tere O'Connor revives his first work at New York Live Arts. Bonus: He will talk about it.
Maija GarcÃa's "Jazz Island" is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn't done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles.
At the Joyce Theater, "American Street Dancer" offers a history lesson in the form of a family's house party.
The French troupe Compagnie Dyptik is making its United States debut with a show seemingly inspired by pandemic isolation and its aftermath.
Abigail Levine's new work, at Target Margin Theater, is terrific as a kind of enhanced reading, but lags on the level of choreography.
In "What Is War," two singular artists, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, grapple with memories of China and Japan in World War II.
At the new Powerhouse: International festival in Brooklyn, Christos Papadopoulos debuted an oblique, glacially cool work with seven dancers.
American Ballet Theater opened its season with an all-Twyla Tharp program, featuring her first dance for the company, "Push Comes to Shove," and the for-the-ages "Bach Partita."
The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined "Emperor Jones."
A festival at the Joyce Theater leaves out the Age of Aquarius work that made this choreographer popular, presenting surprisingly old-fashioned ballet instead.
The annual festival, popular for its take-a-chance-priced tickets, opened with a show featuring work by Jamar Roberts, the tap dancer Dario Natarelli and Akram Khan.
Mette Ingvartsen's "Skatepark" will inaugurate the new Powerhouse: International festival, showcasing the vast performing space of Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
At Japan Society, Emergences celebrates Mishima's centennial. "One of the things that I absolutely love about Mishima is that I don't absolutely love him," said one participant.
The Down to Earth festival answers a pandemic-era call for changes in the performing arts, offering free events in city parks and urban spaces.
A tempestuous new work by the choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber debuts at Little Island.
Tiler Peck has curated a program of Robbins's dances at the Joyce Theater featuring casts of ballet luminaries and rising stars.
Her connection to the great modern dancer lasted a lifetime, from studying with her as a child to leading the Martha Graham Dance Company as an artistic director.
