93 stories by "Lisa Jo Sagolla"
Despite its exemplary precision Irish dance routines, this naive show is marred by its creators' lack of imagination and inability to capture an audience's interest.
Short on plot and long on preachy monologues, this play by Jackie Ruggiero Jacobson is nonetheless a provocative, intelligent work, rich in thoughtful feminist commentary on current politi…
This prosaically choreographed work by Regina Nejman is performed by four lackluster dancers and set to a forgettable hodgepodge of music interspersed with idiotic text.
Powerfully choreographed by Berlin native Nejla Y. Yatkin, this thrilling, fiercely performed contemporary dance piece explores the personal emotions and political issues surrounding the B…
This top-notch San Francisco–based contemporary dance troupe is presenting a stimulating program that shows the opposite choreographic strengths of its artistic directors, Brenda Way…
Despite a few entertaining ensemble numbers, some solid solo singing by Katy Blake, and a delightfully animated performance by Marvin Riggins Jr., this original musical is a bomb.
This ravishing ballet, based on the Tolstoy novel, is ingeniously choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky and tells its tragic tale through efficient choreography, colorful music, and stunning s…
This earnest production of Euripides' tragedy about the effects of war on women is too unskillfully acted to achieve director Kristin Skye Hoffman's intended comment on the timelessness of…
Choreographer John Byrne's ambitious contemporary dance fable purports to express the idea of the transcending soul but doesn't find compelling ways to physically illustrate its weighty id…
Appearing in New York for the first time in nearly a decade, Ballet Nacional de Cuba is offering a rousingly entertaining sampler of excerpts from six famous ballets.
Alessandra Prosperi and company artistic director Martin Løfsnes are exhilarating dancers, but unfortunately their choreography fails to reach the same high level of accomplishment.
In an ambitious mixed bill, American Ballet Theatre is presenting an enlightening display of masterful choreography that demonstrates why the creators are considered great dance makers.
Lynne Taylor-Corbett's "The Seven Deadly Sins," featuring Patti LuPone, is musically and visually stunning, but choreographically it's less eventful than expected.
Fred Newman and David Truskinoff's hokey, underdeveloped 50-minute musical only skims the surface in its exploration of cultural clashing at a dance camp for city kids in the Hamptons.
Except in Kyle Abraham's fine "The Corner," the dancers far outshine their material in this latest offering from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's junior company.
This is a largely commendable script-in-hand staging of the 1945 Broadway musical, which is driven by glorious Sigmund Romberg music and set against the backdrop of Tammany Hall politics.
Famed Martha Graham impersonator Richard Move is stupendous in this re-creation of a 1963 interview with the modern-dance genius, with Lisa Kron masterful as Graham's interviewer.
This ultimately winning production of John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's keenly crafted Depression-era comedy is slow out of the starting gate but soon racing along to the finish line.
