2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
""Women are about community building. That's what we do. We have a sensitivity and a vulnerability, but also a strength in bringing people together and creating community wherever we go." Al…
Four choreographers from within the AILEY community have been selected to develop and premiere original works as part of Harlem Stage's 2025"2026 season, furthering a shared missi…
Applications for the 2026 program are open September 2 - October 15, 2025
Sara Nash (she/her) has been a leading force in the dance ecosystem, consistently supporting and advocating for the field through her work in both the private and public philanthropic sec…
Opus 3 Artists is a leading company managing the careers and touring activities of many of the world's greatest performing artists and ensembles
Conceived and curated by Tony Award-winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder, this robust new cross-disciplinary, multi-week festival features the American premieres of numerous m…
The late choreographer Paul Taylor had genius to spare, and left his Paul Taylor Dance Company with more masterpieces than it can keep in active repertory. In recent years, the troupe's arti…
Pam Tanowitz's latest dance, the idyllic Pastoral (set to Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, the Pastoral Symphony), a 60-minute work for seven dancers, portrays a bucolic day in the cou…
"This force of elemental nature is none other than Eiko Otake, the seventy-three-year-old interdisciplinary artist and dancer. The evening length work, SOAK, created with collaborator DonChr…
"Lesser celebrates her anniversary with a bare-bones ode to persistence, as though spent by her decades of experimenting with contemporary issues, creating elaborate multimedia worlds, and c…
"New York City Ballet's recent spring season successfully introduced some young dancers in major roles. In an earlier review I mentioned David Gabriel's ability to take an audience on …
On Pina Bausch: "For her, her brain was in the stomach somehow, nothing intellectual. She had to respond to what she was looking for, and it had to touch her. She always considered h…
"Susan Jaffe, who was appointed to head the company in December of 2022, was a most formidable swan queen herself. No wonder she has this staple of the classical ballet canon …
In celebration of Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance's 25th anniversary season, choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino reflects on her artistic journey, longstanding collaborations, and a new ocean-inspired…
"In American Ballet Theatre's production of Giselle, Count Albrecht wants to spend a day as a commoner, and sheds his aristocratic cloak and sword to appear as …
"This past April, I was fortunate to travel to Paris for a brief stay. Fortunately, I arrived on the last day of the Paris Opera Ballet School's season at the newly restored Palais Gar…
"Jerron Herman has cerebral palsy, specifically hemiplegia, which affects only his left side. He identifies as a disabled artist, but since his late twenties, nothing has stopped him from pu…
The Dance Show wholeheartedly and entertainingly captures snippets of the human experience, from the simple to the spectacular. The hour-long series of vignettes also spotlights questions th…
 "A recorded voice begins describing an idyllic scene: a flowing river next to a house with a large magnolia tree swaying above it. However, when performer/choreographer Cara Hagan closes…
Ellen Cornfield, who founded her company in 1989, is a choreographer's choreographer. She constructs dance phrases in surprising and endlessly inventive ways, prompting fellow dance makers t…
"It wasn't some grand business plan or strategic launch. It was a bench in the park. A conversation between friends. A spark lit by frustration and fanned into something hopeful. That's wher…
Combination and recombination are the DNA of Merce Cunningham's art. Cunningham's dances can be set and reset, folded into each other, danced to new music, capped with new choreography, a…
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The inaugural presentation of the newly-formed New York Theatre Company (led by Chilina Kennedy, Katherine Winter, and Michael Scott), Machinal is a tap dance and rhythmic movement-enh…
On a blaring hot, humid Thursday evening in the East Village, a small audience floods through the tall doors of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery to witness Megan Williams Dance Project in Vis…