336 stories by "Brian Seibert"
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.
On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.
Boy Blue brings its new show, dense with dance and rootsy British hip-hop, to Lincoln Center.
In "Terrestrial: The Sprout," at New York Live Arts, three directors present a show about epic memory and indescribable feelings.
A program celebrating Twyla Tharp's 60th year making dances features the masterwork "Diabelli" and the fresh new "Slacktide," set to Philip Glass.
Batsheva Dance Company's performance of Ohad Naharin's masterful "Momo" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was inevitably colored by events in Israel and Gaza.
Douglas Dunn + Dancers' season at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan includes a pastoral premiere and an experimental opera.
"Tango After Dark" at the Joyce Theater feels like an extended nightclub floor show, low in imagination and musical subtlety.
"Gigenis," drawn from a tale in the Mahabharata, is the choreographer Akram Khan's most potent work in years.
The company, founded in 1984, has struggled with finances since the pandemic.
"Mystic Familiar," a New York City Ballet premiere, has a score by the musician Dan Deacon and some all-too-familiar sentiments.
The Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday featured thrilling works by Angie Pittman ("Black Life Chord Changes") and Kyle Marshall ("Joan").
At the Joyce Theater, Ragamala Dance presents "Children of Dharma," an elegant production that lacks dramatic pop.
651 Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André Zachery's "Against Gravity."
An oral history project, "Planting Seeds," considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.
Writing for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.
