2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"The exceptional dancers deliver knockout performances with an almost always frontal focus and an intensity in which the volume is turned on high without pause." " Henning Rübsam, New York
"What's exciting about the current Gibney company, under the direction of Gilbert T. Small II since 2022, is that the dancers invest the movement with personal vitality, they react to each o…
"Leñador and her collaborators have created an evening that takes us through the highs and lows of being. Whether or note we've witnessed her mental breakdown or the world breaking he…
"At the age of 96, Graham surprised her fans with the antics of Maple Leaf Rag, but perhaps she found a source of mirth in her own longevity...From her raised vantage-point, she can see the …
"Sometimes the songs' repurposing works brilliantly, such as when "Don't Stand So Close to Me," originally written about an unseemly relationship between a teacher and pupil, is used to acco…
"One of the many layers that make me love Dances … is its sense of community. The work is as non-hierarchical as ballet was able to get at Lincoln Center in 1969...Brahms-Schoe…
"Martha Graham's The Rite of Spring is not about exotic people separated from us by time and distance. It's about the here and now. Unlike Errand into the Maze, where we remain passive spect…
"In Gill's Eight Positions or Could This Go On Forever? seemingly unrelated elements speak to Rachel and Chelsea's shared curiosity of each other. Deliberateness and care are constan…
"I found myself in a loft in Chinatown delightedly surrounded by a slew of familiar faces. A certain sector of the New York dance scene"young, determined, earnest" mingled about, doused in b…
"By the end of the exhilarating afternoon, we've come to realize (if we didn't know already) that dance improvisations are far from random noodlings of the body. Creating a score, playing wi…
"I don't anticipate that there's going to be robots on the floor of the Joyce anytime soon, but it's interesting to me that Jacob's Pillow, which is rebuilding the Doris Duke Theater, is ima…
"The company describes its spring season on the cover of the playbill as "The Future." I keep my fingers crossed, and wish for the best." Henning Rübsam, New York
"McEwan knows how to charge an enormous space with energy. The dancers have the dynamism and sheen of thoroughbreds." Deirdre Towers, Yonkers
"In Searching for Goya at The Joyce Theater, Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, the longstanding flamenco company based in New York City, presents a compendium of dances predicated on t…
"Ballet Hispánico celebrated Eduardo Vilaro's 15th year as artistic director with a powerful season at New York City Center." Hannah Lieberman, New York
"Greene's ancestors smile as she smiles, laugh as she laughs, and the presence of her family in the audience fills the space with warmth and recognition. Her offering is for them as much as …
"The Lydian Gale Parr imaginatively and wholeheartedly embraces the questions and considerations of our time in its multi-layered tale of an identity and gender shifting hero who attempt…
"In ab (intra,) choreographed by Sydney Dance Company's artistic director Rafael Bonachela, the dancers regard each other throughout the seventy-five-minute piece as they navigate tenderness…
"Raffaella is a fairytale ballet inspired by the life of a radiant ballerina, Raffaella Stroik, who died unexpectedly at age 23."  - Claire Kretzschmar
"When I saw Houston Ballet in 'Fall for Dance' at New York City Center last October, I was impressed by the dancers' fine technique and exuberant execution...Ballet Austin's long-time direct…
"heels click clack
one rib sideways
shins lit by shins
coattails and beret
a flash of red lining"
- Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York
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"Leslie Cuyjet is a master of layers. Her multimedia performance exhibition "For All Your Life"teems with interpenetrating modes of expression as words, objects, imagery, and movement echo, …
"This is a program for our time, - respectful of the past and confidently embracing the future." Henning Rübsam, New York, New York
