2,859 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
In IMPRESSIONS: Two Takes on South American Dance " Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker and Che Malambo at the Joyce Theater, "More political and provocative, Colker's work fit seamlessl…
In IMPRESSIONS: Catherine Gaudet's "The Fading of the Marvelous (L'affadissement du merveilleux)" at the 92nd Street Y, "The performers begin in a horizontal line, bare-chested, clad in b…
In IMPRESSIONS: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI's "The Barbarian Nights, or The First Dawns of the World" at the Joyce Theater, "A dazzling blend of gymnastics, modern dance, Capoeira, break…
In Alison Clancy Makes Dance History at the Metropolitan Opera "A ten-year-veteran dancer at the Met, Clancy is a featured dance artist in the prologue of this new production " a rare and…
"I always had the dream of forming an interdisciplinary genre blurring queer performance company with performers and collaborators I love. It's been a long road, but I am thrilled that XIV h…
In IMPRESSIONS: "Fandango For Butterflies (And Coyotes)" at La MaMa, "The characters kneel as if in prayer, crawl like animals or penitent saints, lean against each other, and drape over …
In MOVING PEOPLE, Milteri Tucker Concepción on Bomba, Her Puerto Rican Heritage, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" Movie, "Mr. Reyes taught me how to listen and feel what the rhyt…
In IMPRESSIONS: Movement Headquarters Ballet Company at Ailey Citigroup Theater, "Clothes fly off, and the resulting entanglement is erotic and beautiful " a pas de deux that shows off ba…
In IMPRESSIONS: NYTB/Chamber Works at Danspace Project with Choreography by Richard Alston, Antonia Franceschi, Robert La Fosse, and Pam Tanowitz, "Quirky Double Andante, created for this…
In Two Improvisatory Evenings in January- NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAINÂ at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn (part 2):The Lovelies, a fourth generation company of practicing improvisers ("paying a…
In Two Improvisatory Evenings in January- NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAINÂ at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn (part 1):The Lovelies, a fourth generation company of practicing improvisers ("paying a…
Cherylyn Lavagnino On "Tales of Hopper" & Painter Edward Hopper's Quiet Despair
In IMPRESSIONS: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jean-Guihen Queyras/ROSAS' Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6 Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bach's Cello) at NYU Skirball, "Besides the c…
In IMPRESSIONS: New Adventures/Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" at New York City Center, "The inventive, provocative gender swap displays the impassioned, animalistic nature of these creature…
On February 20th, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance won Best Independent Dance Company at the 20th National Dance Awards organised by the Dance Section of the Critics' Circle.
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In The Dance Enthusiast Hits the Streets: New York City Center's Studio 5: Approaches to Mastering Choreography, "This insight into the rehearsal process offered a rare glimpse of a dance…
In IMPRESSIONS: Melinda Ring's "Strange Engagements" at Danspace Project, "The dancers' tasks subvert the personal; they make indulgence irrelevant. The piece is a Rube Goldberg machine o…
"For my new dance for 10 Hairy Legs, I am exploring the music of Louis Prima to create a tour de force quintet," said Burke.
In IMPRESSIONS: Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance's "Plexus: a work in knots" at John Jay College as part of CUNY Dance Initiative, "The five women and two men waft in and out of each other…
In The Dance Enthusiast Asks: The Joyce Theater Director of Programming Aaron Mattocks on the Art of Presenting Dance, "When we opened our doors in September 2019, through the end of the cal…
In IMPRESSIONS: WOMEN IN MOTION 2019/2020 " Pop Performance Opportunity Project at Gibney, "The producers of the Women in Motion series are deadly serious about supporting female arti…
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) Announces Spring 2020 BAC Residencies
"With this award, we seek to record and honor the creative innovation and labor of queer women(+) dance artists. To acknowledge them as full humans and artists informed and nourished by love…
In IMPRESSIONS: IPROTOTYPE's "Cion: Requiem of Ravel's Boléro" by Vuyani Dance Theatre at the Joyce Theater, "Music, text, and dance meet onstage in a graveyard. Moving through a landscape …