307 stories by "Sarah Kaufman"
How Diana Movius turned a smelly, dusty former theater into D.C.'s Dance Loft on 14.
Lucky for dance lovers, the spring season beckons with an especially enticing collection of events: ballets beloved and new, masterly works of modern dance as well as experiments to arouse o…
Sarah L. Kaufman is the dance critic of The Washington Post. This article was adapted from her new book, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life" (W.W. Norton, Nov. 2, 2015). It is a …
It was written in the stars. Or at least suggested by them, the night Dana Tai Soon Burgess sat outside his parents' home near Santa Fe, N.M., looking up at a Milky Way that seemed close eno…
One step at a time, in solemn synchrony, the casket team carried the coffin up the grassy hill on Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery. Harry Ostro, the beloved Brooklyn high school footba…
"Everything has been pleasant for me. So I'm thankful. And hopeful." With those words, and a big, toothy smile, former President Jimmy Carter, 90, ended his press conference Thursday. He loo…
"I paint flowers so they will not die," wrote Frida Kahlo. She painted them for other reasons, too, as you can see in a show at the New York Botanical Garden: "Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life…
Beauty vloggers, PewDiePie: Make room. Supermodel Karlie Kloss is now a YouTuber, and if her 2.9 million Instagram followers are any indication, Klossy"as her channel is called"could launch�…
What does Michaela DePrince have left to conquer? As a 4-year-old orphan in Sierra Leone, the thought of being adopted made her physically sick, but she overcame her fear to enjoy a loving f…
Beauty is a strength and a weakness in "The Peony Pavilion," an ode to the delirium of love, danced by the National Ballet of China at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night. The two-hour production is …
Misty Copeland is having a Beyoncé kind of moment. But does the media attention she has whipped up have anything to do with her art?Read full article >>
It has a musical ring to it: Misty makes history. Indeed, with bad news pressing in on so many fronts, the just-announced promotion of Misty Copeland to principal status at American Ballet T…
"This whole week, I've been reflecting on this idea of grace," said President Obama today, just before he broke into song at the funeral for South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a pa…
The pleasures of improv proved the saving grace of Chamber Dance Project, a plucky pickup group in performance through the weekend at the Lansburgh Theatre. While the dancers hail from vario…
A bird thought the empty orchestra pit at Wolf Trap would be a nice place to rest on Wednesday night, but it was mistaken. As soon as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago stomped out the vigorous op…
The surreal, yellow post-storm sky over the Kennedy Center Tuesday night, glimpsed at intermission, felt like an extension of the ballet atmosphere in the Eisenhower Theater. There, the Poli…
The New York City Ballet is reeling from the untimely death of one of its stars: Albert Evans, 46, a retired principal dancer and a current ballet master. Evans, tall and dignified with a pl…
The Polish National Ballet is making its Washington debut this week, but its neoclassical style may look familiar to longtime dancegoers. Its artistic director, Krzysztof Pastor, was a resid…
"All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love," wrote Isadora Duncan. The revolutionary's romanticism was on view in "Body/Soul," a program by Word Dance The…
"All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is love," wrote Isadora Duncan. The revolutionary's romanticism was on view in "Body/Soul," a program by Word Dance Theate…
If you can't make it to New York this month to watch the Italian star Roberto Bolle dance with American Ballet Theatre, you can see plenty of him in a coffee-table photo book, "Roberto Bolle…
Lovers' attempts to thwart parental disapproval is old news in the theater, from "Romeo and Juliet" to "Fiddler on the Roof." The ballet "Don Quixote" tells that story, too. So how has the R…
When Christopher Wheeldon launched his small, short-lived ballet company in 2007, the idea was to make ballet accessible to a wide audience. Every part of it was designed for maximum audienc…
Summer turns us toward whatever is cool, light and airy. Dance floats to the fore as humanity's palliative to heat and heaviness. Just as dancers seem to defy gravity, you may well fly along…
NEW YORK"A kosher chef brings his guitar to the podium and strums it as he belts out a two-minute pitch for his new cookbook. The author of a memoir called "The Mental Yentl" tells rap…
