98 stories by "Lisa Traiger"
Gerry is mad. Furious even. And who can blame him? He's all set for the wedding of the … well … summer. He's driven out the I10 from Los Angeles to Palm Springs and the expensively taste…
It's been a challenging few years for New York City Ballet, the nation's preeminent ballet company. What with the misconduct and resignation of its ballet master in chief, subsequent miscond…
It's too simplistic to call Bill T. Jones a choreographer, although that's been his stock and trade for more than 40 years. This past week his Analogy unfolded as a trilogy, over three night…
Don't think you're going to sit back and observe if you show up at Urban Bush Women's latest, Hair & Other Stories, which made its Washington, DC premiere this past weekend at Dance Plac…
A cough, a gasp, the sound of a heartbeat. A sudden flash in the darkness. These sounds and images begin "Lazarus," the brand-new work from hip hop master Rennie Harris, which opened a glitz…
Don't walk into the Kennedy Center Opera House expecting a Disney-esque, happily-ever-after retelling of the evergreen fairytale Cinderella. British director/choreographer Matthew Bourne has…
District-based solo performer Holly Bass creates in so many media and art forms I can't keep up with her"and I've been covering her for nearly a decade. Her latest devised work, a dance-thea…
Comedy. It isn't always pretty. And sometimes it isn't even funny. In the case of Elan Zafir's biographical one-man show The Unaccompanied Minor, although it's billed as a comedy, it really …
Church basements have a long and surprisingly illustrious history in the evolution of modern dance, particularly in the mid-20th-century when they were creative strongholds for iconoclastic …
Ain't too many surprises in Ain't Too Proud, the new jukebox musical about the supergroup The Temptations and their rise to meteoric heights. Their music defined a generation and gave voice …
"No diving. No running. Absolutely no cannonballs," the pre-show announcement at Joe's Movement Emporium orders. But get ready to dive deep for the world premiere of #poolparty as it unpacks…
The portraits hang solemnly, unmoving at the Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery. Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess breathes life and movement into these two-dimensional works of art with a tri…
Making the extraordinary ordinary appears to be a notion we can't shake. If it isn't dumbing down, it's taking down, mashing up or just plain copying. Thursday, April 26 at the Kennedy Cente…
In this era of #MeToo, a review of the New York City Ballet can't begin without noting the allegations of abuse against now-retired Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins. Late last year, the …
A tapestry of poetry, chant, music, and dance drawn from a swath of the ancient Silk Road has provided vivid inspiration for influential choreographer Mark Morris. His re-envisioning of Layl…
Growing old isn't for sissies. In South-African-born, British playwright Ronald Harwood's smart 1999 comedy Quartet, he gently wrestles with the indignities of aging in a British senior-citi…
As parts of the nation settled in to hear 45 read the script of the State of the Union address, and other parts assiduously ignored the same, balletomanes and ballet goers in the Washington …
In ink, choreographer/dancer Camille A. Brown's final installment in her trilogy examining African-American identity, an entire history of a people is written indelibly on the bodies of h…
Generations of budding ballerinas have lusted after the shiny crimson satin pointe shoes in the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes. Who can resist those shoes, they make the wearer dance, and d…
Tap dancers are family. As family they gather together, catch up, trade stories, reminisce, honor their forbears and simply, yet profoundly, enjoy each others' company. Saturday evening's so…
In a week that began with the repeal of DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals " what better way to end it than with a musical about dreamers. For those children " many now youn…
There's virtually nothing a drag queen won't say, or do, in public or private, say the Kinsey Sicks. The San Francisco-based beauty shop quartet that puts the show into show business, the ba…
Baseball players take the winter off. Football players do the same in the summer. Ballet dancers are of a different breed. When their companies go on hiatus, typically in early June, they fi…
What does 21st-century ballet look like? For The Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America program, principle dancer and celeb ballerina Misty Copeland, 34, and 29-year-old New York City Ballet…
Men in tights and pointe shoes ballet super seriously and have fun doing it. The all-male comic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo returned to the Kennedy Center March 21 w…
