Dan Wagoner, Acclaimed Modern Dancer, Is Dead at 91
He worked with the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor troupes and then created his own group, Dan Wagoner and Dancers.
He worked with the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor troupes and then created his own group, Dan Wagoner and Dancers.
In Compagnie Hervé Koubi's "Sol Invictus" at the Joyce Theater, the dancers' extraordinary moves are integrated into a poetic vision.
The highlight of the street dance festival "Motion/Matter" at the Perelman Performing Arts Center came at the end: an all-styles battle that honored roots.
Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein's picaresque "Deepe Darknesse" models itself on the randomness of an ancient Roman novel, "The Golden Ass."
He rose to stardom in an act with Gregory Hines and also performed on and off Broadway.
An exhibition at New York Public Library tells a different, more inclusive story about the genealogy of an art form.
"The March" explores unison, while "Is It Thursday Yet?" concerns a dancer's struggle to understand herself after receiving a diagnosis of autism.
The tap dancer Caleb Teicher and the beatboxer Chris Celiz have expanded an earlier collaboration into an evening-length work at the Joyce Theater.
Amy Hall Garner is readying the new work "Century" for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on the heels of other premieres and with more to come.
The five dance selections that are part of the Dance Reflections festival take varied approaches to piano exercises written by Philip Glass.
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born's hybrid show, "Adaku, Part 1," about a precolonial African village, mixes dance theater, song and drama.
The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it's an Off Broadway musical.
The choreographer and director Akram Khan's reimagining of Kipling's fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
Battle is stepping away after running the company for 12 years, citing health concerns.
He became known for his "layered movement dialogue" and was an uncommonly dedicated teacher who mentored students over decades.
His company's debut program at the Joyce Theater has three New York premieres, including one about the Black roots of rock.
A new work by Larry Keigwin and a company premiere by Ulysses Dove join programs that benefit from live music.
Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by William Christie, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on Thursday.
Jake Roxander's soaring Puck in "The Dream" was the highlight of American Ballet Theater's final two programs this fall, the first season programmed by Susan Jaffe.
A new "Pal Joey" at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.
Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
Liang, a choreographer who has run BalletMet in Ohio for 10 years, is the first Asian American to lead a ballet company of this size and stature.
Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi's "Broken Chord" considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England and North America.
Two dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center are part of Christopher Williams's project of reimagining, and often queering, works by Diaghilev's company.