2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
Five women actors tell that story of suppression and resistance (from Merlin Stone's 1976 book When God Was a Woman) each portraying multiple characters from different historical eras in a d…
"Janet Eilber, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, is a class act. Before the curtain opens at The Joyce Theater, on April 2, she welcomes th…
"Everybody wants something new, right? If there's nothing 'new'Â in a 'new work,'Â what might we experience instead? [...] Choreographer Chloe London invites these questions into Unstabl…
"Must Come Down" by Cameron Barnett and Fiona Schlegel opened as musician and songwriter Bernadette Bradley emerged through a white door, shuffled her sheet music, plugged in her guitar, and…
" Curran has the ability to create spaces of deep respect, lightheartedness, and genuine appreciation for others that makes work feel like play." - Cecly Placenti, New York
"According to program notes, the 60-minute ensemble piece for seven dancers is inspired
by Wilson's desire to re-claim foundational ideas from his early work and discover how, or if,
they co…
"I applaud that each piece in the program so far has featured a different composer, often favoring another instrument. This thoughtfulness in programming elevates the musical …
"Across gulfs of time, space, and subjectivity, Silvers and her tribe find grounding in their divine feminines to echo through a world of their own making." Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, Brooklyn,…
"Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein's Friday Night Rat Catchers functions with a kindred spirit; its youthful irreverence and penchant for comedic chaos a pleasure to behold. The work interrogat…
"...Vespers, Reimagined (2025)" Miller expands the original work into a 40-minute dance-essay for five sensitive, daring dancers: Bria Bacon, Jasmine Hearn, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Chloe London,…
"DOOM revolves around William Shakespeare's 16th-century tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The subtitle, House of Hope, refers to the houses of Montague and Capulet. However, in DOOM's dystopian wor…
"Precise, syncopated steps charge, burst, and reverberate through Boy Blue's electrifying cast. Asante's pulsating electronic score surges through the space, its driving beats embodied by th…
"Thomas Lebrun's new work for young audiences, d'amour (Love), is quirky, full of clichés, and ultimately impactful." " Ann Moradian
"Choreographer Ohad Naharin's MOMO sneaks up on you...Not every image is powerful, or evokes a reference, but the bounty of imagery overwhelms and comforts me at the same time…
Makini, the choreographer and performer also called jumatatu m. poe and known for J-Sette, presented TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout at New York Live Arts, March 13-15. In this ritualistic work for …
"Purportedly a talk-show interview with a celebrity author whose misogynist plays notoriously belittle and abuse their female characters, Masterclass is ruefully hilarious." Robert Johnson, …
"Caravan," choreographed and performed by Laura Donaldson, Veronica Simpson, and Elisa McGrenera...offered an unexpected and mesmerizing concept: for much of the piece, they stayed physicall…
"New York City is a global hub for dance, thanks to its renowned resident companies, emerging local talent, and the world-class troupes that visit its stages. Gauthier Dance/Dance Company Th…
"But it gets even better: Isadora and the ballet dancers perform at the same time. Beautiful tableaux emerge from the marriage of the two worlds; and Isadora's earthbound fluidity c…
"Some of the most effective choreography comes in the birth scenes, where babies are pulled out and taken away" and in a fantastic depiction of servitude, where inmates are used as tea trays…
"My goal is always to give audiences more ways to access the legacy. We're constantly trying to use new technology and new access points to draw new audiences in...I see our future in the sa…
"What can improvisation show us about life? For Mariana Valencia and Jazmin "Jazzy" Romero, life and improvisation are inextricable processes of knowledge and memory"reliable, fleeting, fall…
"The dynamic range in SLACKTIDE fills me with awe and wonderment. Individual recklessness electrifies but never endangers the group, because the patterns are meticulously plan…
"What a pleasure to meet the talented artists of Boston Dance Theater last weekend when they performed their short, sweet, and compelling evening of repertory at Boston's gorgeous Institute …
