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The Bessies Announce Recipients of the 2019 NY Dance and Performance Awards
In IMPRESSIONS: Dance Heginbotham's "Herz Schmerz" at Baryshnikov Arts Center, "More significantly, the performers in this piece gently squeeze their own flesh as if assessing their physi…
In IMPRESSIONS: Kathryn Posin Dance Company at the 92Y's DIG DANCE Evolution, Triple Sextet, Memoir : "Posin and the dancers deserve credit for carrying out the more experimental shapes inco…
American Ballet Theatre will bring James Whiteside's Vail Dance Festival Commission, "New American Romance," to New York City this Fall on October 23, 25 and 27at the David H. Koch The…
Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency Application is LIVE!
Alison Cook Beatty Dance, an emerging modern dance company based in New York City, is soon to roll out its performance series. Artists In Motion features two world premieres, live music, …
CUNY Dance Initiative is now accepting applications for 2020-21!
"Armed with a BFA from Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Dominican University, and an MFA from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, Johnson started her own company, and has been poppin…
 "I Am Enough" An LGBTQ Ballet Music Video featuring Broadway dancer Skye Mattox and NYC Ballet Soloist Georgina Pazcoguin Premieres on National Coming Out Day, October 11th. Meet the …
Center for Performance Research Announces 2019 Fall Movement Festival Artists.
Get Ready for The Bessies: Catch Up with the Nominated Pieces and People The Dance Enthusiast Covered
In IMPRESSIONS: Chuck Wilt/UNA Productions' "COLORING" at 92Y, "The company's synergy and honesty are its most winning aspects. Wilt and his dancers offer a collaborative, self-affirmativ…
In IMPRESSIONS: CollabFest at Triskelion Arts Featuring Works by Donna Costello, LMnO3, Annalyn Lehnig, "The second night of CollabFest, a two-weekend annual showcase of interdisciplinary ex…
In IMPRESSIONS: MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet at Ailey Citigroup Theater, "The shuddering delicacy of three women boureé-ing slowly across the stage evokes the shifting ice. The fragile fo…
In IMPRESSIONS: Danse Theater Surreality's "Thoughts and Prayers" at TADA! Youth Theater, "As disasters strike, the couple's domestic chatter breaks down and the musicians rise up, using …
In IMPRESSIONS: Maria Bauman-Morales' MBDDance in "(re)Source" presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater and BAAD in the Bronx "This artist  moves potently, exquisitely. I can't s…
In Things I am Learning (and listening to) AboutThe Dance Enthusiast Comments and Call Outs - Our Most Controversial Article in 12 Years " As the editor-in-chief, I would like to contribu…
In IMPRESSIONS: Rubberband's "Ever So Slightly" at the Joyce Theater, "From the moment the curtain rises, choreographer and artistic director Victor Quijada and his masterful da…
In IMPRESSIONS: Ayodele Casel and Arturo O'Farrill at the Joyce Theater, "Casel's style is effortless with flamenco's downward dive, either hitting the heel or woodpecking the tip of the …
"We are not trying to dance gender. We are trying to dance expression, and expression transcends gender," Jacobsen says. Their objective is to present an authentic narrative that still refle…
In MOVING PEOPLE, Jody Gottfried Arnhold says, "One of the jobs/projects I most enjoyed was making the documentary, PS DANCE! because it has become a wonderful way to spread the word about t…
In The Dance Enthusiast, What We Stand For-Celebrating 12 Years of Dance Enthusiasm, Positivity, Conversation, and Inclusion: The Dance Enthusiast is a site for dance journalism populated…
Congratulations To Urban Bush Women's Newest Company Members & Promoted Dancers!
Host Justin Vivian Bond, Presenters & Performers Announced for 35th Annual Bessie Awards On October 14, 2019. Monday, October 14, at 7:30pm, at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performin…
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company Receives $10,000 Grant From Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
