2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
In IMPRESSIONS: "Fruits borne out of rust" at Japan Society with Tabaimo and Maki Morishita, "Dancer Chiharu Mamiya expresses much with each move: whether curled on the floor, her back to…
In IMPRESSIONS: Sara Juli's Burnt-Out Wife Presented by Dixon Place and American Dance Festival, "More physical theater than dance, her movement strategically amplifies the intensity of a…
In IMPRESSIONS: Kimberly Bartosik/daela's "through the mirror of their eyes" at New York Live Arts, "Although their first appearance is brief, the youngsters return throughout, in bursts of …
Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems to Host Online video series to virtually invite learners of all ages into his studio for the next few weeks due to Kennedy Center clos…
In Letter from The Dance Enthusiast Managment Team re COVID-19 "How our world has changed in such a very short time! ...if any group of people can handle shifts with humor, creativity, and c…
Park Avenue Armory & National Black Theatre Announce Commissioned Artists For 100 Years | 100 Women Initiative
Reminder: March 16 is The Deadline For Submissions to The Jadin Wong Fellowship in Dance
"We have to preserve the art and not the tricks in classical dance." " Valentina Kozlova, founder of the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition
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…