The LatinX Movement Festival premiered at Dance Place in 2024. This second iteration featured performances by artists including Armando Ibañez, Felipe Moltedo, Corazón Folklórico DC…
The Back Room at Glen Echo is one of the Park's smaller spaces. Tucked in a corner of the campus behind the Spanish Ballroom the Back Room's wood floors are more used to hosting social dance…
Gabriel Mata is one of my favorite DC-based choreographers. He deploys movement in sophisticated structures without falling into oblique or self-involved and inaccessible formulae. He has a …
There were ghosts in the Lang on last Saturday evening. The "Icons Choreographers' Collective" began with a tribute to the late George Jackson. Jackson was a dance writer and author contribu…
 "New Releases," a recurring annual performance at Dance Place in Washington, DC showcasing the work of emerging local choreographers, was two shows in one. The first half of the program…
Take your best superlatives. Throw them in a bag, shake it up, dump them out on the table, and that would be an accurate review of Acosta Danza's "Cuban Ecléctico." Gobsmacked, flabbergaste…
Everyone in the audience jumped. The house lights were still all the way up as a thunderous crash reverberated through the Eisenhower. People scrambled for their seats as a second clap e…
"Ok Luna, let's start the show." A single dancer leaned forward, speaking to a blue light on the table. There was a moment, the house lights dimmed and the music began. Orange Grove Dance…
"MOON," presented by Mark Morris Dance Group is one of a number of dance works featured by the Kennedy Center as part of the "Earth to Space" festival. Other works coming as part of the fest…
Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia in NYCB's production of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova's "Coppélia." Photo by Erin Baiano. It was encouraging to see so many children at Thursday night'…
The first half of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham's performance in The Kay Theater at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center was a reprise of their 2024 appearance at the George Mason Center for the…
I parked in Bristol 10. Two floors down, and on the opposite side of the Kennedy Center from the Eisenhower Theater where, in twenty minutes, the curtain would go up on the closing performan…
Thursday night was the Washington premier of "Crime and Punishment," presented by the American Ballet Theater(ABT). It is based on the novel by Dostoyevsky, with choreography by Helen Picket…
Full Circle Dance Company's "From the Source of Our Power" at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Meyerhoff Auditorium was a well-curated and well-attended affair featuring work by choreographers …
Ballet Hispánico is one of my favorite American dance companies. Their performance of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's "Doña Perón" at the Kennedy Center in 2022 is among the best shows I ha…
You can't watch the dancing people in front of your own eyes if you are looking at TikTok. Although choreographer and Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance, Madeleine "Max" Roman, made a p…
It's more than a little surprising that the Inaugural Latinx Movement Festival is just that"inaugural. It was well-curated by local dancer and choreographer,, Gabriel Mata, following a tried…
It's hard to believe that in over 40 years of performing, their appearance last week in the Eisenhower Theater marked San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Kennedy Center debut. Kin…
Making their Kennedy Center debut in the Eisenhower Theater, Sydney Dance Company's "Impermanence" put a spotlight on the dancers' ensemble work as well as director Rafael Bonachela's choreo…
The Martha Graham Dance Company won't officially turn 100 until 2026, but as the oldest dance company in the United States, you can't blame them for starting the party a little early. The pe…
There is always something special about seeing dance in a space where you are so close to the performers you could reach out and touch them. Synergy Space, a converted dance studio space abo…
It would be easy to forget that the performers in Saturday night's performance by the students of the George Mason University Dance Company are just that"students. I have seen plenty of less…
Ballet 5:8, a contemporary dance company with strong religious influences based in Chicago, arrived on tour at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts last Saturday where they were joined f…
Grupo Corpo's performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House featured a double bill of works by founding choreographer, Rodrigo Pederneiras. Founded in 1975, Grupo Corpo (Body Group) is one o…