2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"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 …
In The Making of A "West Side Story" for the 21st Century - Guggenheim Works and Process with Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: "Briefly, as van Hove described approaching Scott R…
Karen Bernard On "Lakeside" & The Residencies In Canada & Portugal That Shaped Her Newest Work
In Day in the Life of Dance: A Conversation with Mira Cook of NYC Community Ballet, "In 2015, along with dancer friends, she founded NYC Community Ballet, a collective dedicated to providing…
In Artistic Director Stephen Pier on the 25th Anniversary of Hartt Dance at University of Hartford, "With an equally strong commitment to modern and ballet, Hartt Dance maintains a relations…
In IMPRESSIONS: "Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed" by David Neumann and Marcella Murray, Presented by Abrons Arts Center and The Chocolate Factory, "Though both performers se…
In The Dance Enthusiast Asks Laurel Snyder about "To What End" at Spectrum, "I often find myself at the crossroads between music and dance. While that can sometimes make me feel like a "j…
In IMPRESSIONS: Thomas L. Defrantz/SLIPPAGE's "Soundz in the Back of My Head" at Gibney, "For much of the hour-long piece, Defrantz speaks, sometimes academically (he is a professor at Du…
Dancewave Announces Spring 2020 Artists-in-Residence. Congratulations, Rohan Bhargava, Winston Dynamite Brown & Latra Ann Wilson!
In IMPRESSIONS: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center with Choreography by Camille A. Brown, Robert Battle, and Alvin Ailey, "My impressions may echo the words of man…
In IMPRESSIONS: E/D's "amplifying the nothing" at Triskelion Arts, "Adopting an attitude of knowing nonchalance, E/D poses like bathing beauties, bounces through an aerobics workout, and …
In IMPRESSIONS: caitlinadams/Heidco and Collin Kelly in Split Bill at Triskelion Arts, "The world on stage exists for those who occupy it " we can't quite enter, not yet, as they haven't …
In IMPRESSIONS: "The Brooklyn Nutcracker" at Kings Theatre, "The second act carries more substance, though the storyline dissolves altogether." " Theo Boguszewski, Brooklyn
In One Day Dance Finds Freedom within Structure, "Making a one-hour dance film in 24 hours sounds like a nearly impossible feat, but that's One Day Dance's mission. The company, which als…
In IMPRESSIONS: Pam Tanowitz's "New Work for Goldberg Variations" with Simone Dinnerstein at the Joyce Theater, "At times, the dance mimics the music while, other times, it counters it, a…
In IMPRESSIONS: Garnet Henderson and Anna Peretz Rogovoy in a Shared Evening at The Flea Theater, "Linear and grounded, movements rotate around a strong center and change directions swift…
"...we are all Frida, part of Frida, and can access those traits of Kahlo we might need to understand, cope with, and enjoy our lives and what life deals us, whether blows or  kisses, …
In IMPRESSIONS: Darrah Carr Dance in "Dancing The Coral Suite" at the Irish Arts Center a Collaboration with Musicians Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna: "One may think of jigs and reels as lively m…
