"Archaic/Modern" is not only the title of the estimable exhibit of Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi mid-20th-century works at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. Archaic/modern de…
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is looking as strong and beautiful as ever in its annual February visit to The Kennedy Center Opera House. Now in his sixth year as artistic director o…
Briar Rose. Brunhilde. Talia. Rosamond. Aurora. Over the centuries Sleeping Beauty has been known by many names, but the long abiding folk tale of good conquering evil and love conquering al…
Walking into Dance Place for the world premiere of choreographer and dancer Vincent Thomas's What's Going On: Life, Love, and Social Justice, an homage to Marvin Gaye, the great Northeast D.…
Ever since Debbie Allen parleyed a killer look in the 1980 movie Fame into a featured role on the popular television series, this triple threat has been busting open doors in Hollywood for w…
The choreographic universe Tim Rushton created for his evening-length contemporary ballet Black Diamond is made up of an engaging accretion of enticing, quirky, and oddball moments in mov…
If you want to know how America dances, don't tune in to those kitschy television competition shows So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing With the Stars. Check out Dorrance Dance in The…
Heraclitus may have said it first, but 20th century modern dance pioneer Martha Graham followed his dictum: "Change is the only constant." The company the iconic dancer and choreographer …
The last living " and working " link to the founding generation of modern dance choreographers, Paul Taylor remains true to his values as a consummate dancemaker imbuing his works with impec…
Going Out With a Bang: The Washington Ballet's Carmina Burana and Bowie/Queen The standing ovation came before a single dancer took the stage. It lasted about two minutes to honor the fin…
Monica Bill Barnes & Company Serving Up Food for Thought … and Cake In life some things that are easy look hard and others that are hard look easy. That's also the case for choreograph…
Ballet Elevated Earlier this month, the dance world rumbled a bit upon learning of the resignation of The Washington Ballet's high-energy, effervescent Artistic Director Septime Webre. Since…
Dance Place Reunion Celebrates 35 Years When Dance Place marks a milestone, invariably by the evening's end its Founding Artistic Director Carla Perlo has more people on stage than in the au…
Alexei Ratmansky's newest staging of the great classical ballet The Sleeping Beauty feels like that moment in the classic MGM film The Wizard of Oz when the scene goes from black and white t…
The Winter's Tale: Warm Production for a Cold Winter's Night Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has taken a challenging late Shakespearean play " The Winter's Tale from 1623 " and revitalize…
For reasons that continue to surprise me, 2015 was a relatively light dance-going year for me. That said, I managed to take in nearly a top ten of memorable, exceptional or challenging perfo…
Boris Eifman is a choreographer critics love to hate and audiences simply love. In fact, in his 2011 opus, Rodin, detailing the loves of the great French sculptor who chiseled the art form i…
As a long-time dance observer, I like to say the language of dance is universal and that in performance specificity on stage can imbue a work with universality. Saturday evening at Dance Pla…
My phone told me it was 14 degrees as I made my way to the Atlas Friday evening. A fitting temperature for the world premiere of a work titled Glacier, by Moveius Contemporary Ballet. By …
Katherine Brown is executive director of New York City Ballet, and in that capacity oversees the management and administrative functions of the ballet and the David H. Koch Theater and manag…
"Long title and long history," said Dance Place Co-Director Deborah Riley to introduce DC Contemporary Dance Theatre, which has also worked under the moniker El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea…
My year 2014 in dance opened in January with a return of the now annually visiting Mariinsky Ballet to The Kennedy Center Opera House. Though the company brought "Swan Lake," the company'…
"There are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind," big band leader, composer and D.C. native son Duke Ellington famously said. In 1960 he turned to Russian powerhouse Peter Ilych…