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See Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak Dance with their Talented Castmates during Paul Taylor's Season at Lincoln Center November 5th thru November 24th!
"There, in between the park's fountains,  they are greeted by visual artist Jakob Vitale's tall, wooden cityscape mural. Booming music vibrates near his painting playground. As people …
"As Jody Sperling hoped, these two Taylor dancers have taken her Loie Fuller inspired, yet contemporary dances inside of themselves to make something very special, old yet new.  It wil…
"All Peck"celebrates Justin Peck's decade as New York City Ballet's resident choreographer. In the grand walls of the David H. Koch Theater, a highlight of All Peck is the mini-documentaryÂ…
Activist, dancer, and choreographer, Alvin Ailey stands at the fulcrum of the Whitney Museum's Edges of Ailey exhibition running through February 9, 2025. This show was six years in the maki…
"Rearray, originally created for Sadler's Wells Ballet in 2011 for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas La Riche, is both beautiful and glaringly harsh."Â - Ann Moradian
"One cannot help but follow Trenary's every step on her transfixing journey, as she pushes the boundaries of what a single dancer can do in terms of energy and …
CUNY Dance Initiative announces its Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops. As part of its residency program for NYC choreographers, the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI) sponsors classes, worksho…
"We are thrilled to welcome this extraordinary group of fellows to CBA and NYU this academic year. Their diverse disciplines " including theater, choreography, art history, Black diasporic s…
"Deborah Colker, the Brazilian director/choreographer, keeps the cast moving; the space seems to expand and contract as they billow out and in, and sometimes up. The cast, singers and dancer…
"At the heart of the show is a proposal"an appeal to joy, an invitation to connect and be together in this time and place, and to dance."Â - Cecly Placenti, New York
"kNoname Artist / Roderick George is a company I was unfamiliar with, but that from now on I will seek out...George has made a moving work and his powerful dancers commit to it wholeheartedl…
"stunned to be confronted by a flood of light ...darkness is only a comfort to the idle spectator...which you are notnot here...not tonight...maybe not ever again...shake awake the witness i…
"The crush at the door for the Joffrey Ballet tickets at the Vienna Festival was so overwhelming that the city's strict fire laws were broken, and people were herded in without seats for the…
"Company Wayne McGregor from Britain took to the Mountain View stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY, umbrellaed by the splendid kitesurfer-like awning on sunny afternoons, October …
 "The last surviving image documenting the location where Africans...were laid to rest in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx is a 1910 photograph titled "Slave Burying Ground." Alethea …
"What is so spectacular about this work in particular, and what also makes it difficult to re stage, is that each each character, is having a individualistic experience of the events that ar…
"Notably unlike Graham, Baye & Asa have not placed themselves front and center in their own work; and although the new Cortege contains solos, it is eminently an ensemble piece in which …
"BEAUTY unfolded as a total sensory experience with trippy projections, a diverse soundscape, and a contemporary ballet aesthetic."Â -Hanna Lieberman, New York
"These artists challenge notions of performance through a participatory ethos that invites and implicates the spectator ... Together Anakwe, tye, and Ude offer an evening of generosity, aban…
"Dipping into her quintessentially spare, staccato pedestrian gestures and walks, this most recent offering references Parson's emotionally reserved dances designed to express, without fuss,…
"I'm trying to build a bridge between everything Mark's been doing forever and these poor people stuck in desk jobs. It's a movement, and we're not going to give up. " Melissa Painter, Found…
"In this hypnotic whirlwind of light and sound, R.O.S.E. proves contemporary dance is not a remote art form to only be appreciated by dance cognoscenti, it is a movement for the people." Mir…