The Limón Dance Company Tries to Shake Up Its Fusty Image
The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined "Emperor Jones."
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.
Noche Flamenca's new production was less focused than usual on its standout, Soledad Barrio, making room for talented soloists.
In American Ballet Theater's production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.
Her stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham's, after their founders died.
The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways.
At the Joyce Theater through Sunday, the Paul Taylor Dance Company revives two half-lost works from the 1960s, traversing matters both sacred and profane.
At the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens on Friday, Martita Abril's performance expressed life on the border from multiple angles.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Brooklyn Academy of Music moves between church and twistin' the night away.
Among the 20th century's most significant choreographers, he led the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, creating epic ballets like "Spartacus."
This year's DanceAfrica festival at BAM features Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, which a member likened to a mirror for the nation.
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's season at New York Live Arts features the premiere of "Curriculum III: People, Places & Things."
Jasperse's engrossing "Tides" was a thrilling opener to a festival that often feels like a home for first drafts.
On program of New York premieres at the Joyce Theater, Abraham's contribution stands out and so do his dancers.
Celia Rowlson-Hall's "Sissy" at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a dance-theater hybrid featuring Marisa Tomei, pokes at the boundaries between art and life.
Robert Garland, the company's artistic director, has created his first work for the dancers since taking over in 2023.
At 99, the Graham company continues to grapple with the legacy of its founder with reimagined lost works and commissions.
Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.