Friday, August 7, 2026
The bassist Esperanza Spalding and choreographer Kayla Farrish are teaming up to improvise together, mending the frayed relationship between their arts.
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His dreamlike, expressionistic style influenced the vividly theatrical works of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, an early collaborator.
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Friday, July 17, 2026
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
“When I’m no longer living, can this place exist?” Robert Wilson wondered in a film about his Long Island art incubator. This month, its annual festival will go on without him.
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Across generations, Lai Hung-Chung and Shen Wei are grappling with the possibilities of Chinese contemporary dance as they present their work in New York.
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Monday, June 29, 2026
“Momentary Reprise,” a program at Bard SummerScape, spanned Childs’s career, showing how she settled on a style in the 1970s and stuck with it.
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Thanks to a $50 million grant, a new festival has been born. Kyle Abraham helps to curate the first edition, which is part of the center’s Summer of Dance.
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Kids Dance, from the New York Public School for Dance, is debuting a work featuring alumni. That’s not the only way former students are involved with the school.
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Brooklyn students are learning a traditional Ugandan dance for BAM’s festival this weekend. “You cannot shake your hips if you are stressed,” the Ugandan troupe leader told them.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Julie Mehretu and John Jasperse are collaborating at the Marian Goodman Gallery: “How do we bring something to each other’s work that feels productive?”
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Maureen Footer’s new biography, “Feel the Floor,” shows how a little-known Black choreographer taught white stars all the latest moves.
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Monday, May 11, 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
Courtney Washington made her name as a choreographer in street-dance competitions and on the ballroom scene. Now, she’s making a work for Parsons Dance.
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Thursday, April 9, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
She knew nothing about lighting when the director Robert Wilson asked her to work on his shows, and later spent over 40 years as a designer for Danspace Project.
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Monday, March 30, 2026
He created dances performed around the world, and under his leadership the Houston company grew into one of America's largest and most prominent.
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Rennie Harris's "Losing My Religion" and a Matthew Neenan program from BalletX were signs of health in two of the city's most important dance institutions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PM[SHARE]At a Broadway studio, the actor busts a move with his daughter, Audrey, who also happens to be his inspiration (and co-star) for his new film, "She Dances."
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]A new tour featuring New Edition and Boyz II Men is also a showcase for the influential work of their longtime choreographer, Brooke Payne.
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Friday, March 13, 2026
A series of workshops that are part of the Dance Reflections festival help to demystify contemporary dance. There are classes for pros, nonprofessionals and even children.
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At the Dance Reflections festival, Nacera Belaza, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Noé Soulier all attempted some form of going back to basics. Results varied.
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The centerpiece of the annual Flamenco Festival New York saw the introduction of another wonder in Juan Tomás de la MolÃa, alongside some veterans of the art.
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His "Baile Inolvidable" has sparked a surge of interest in salsa dancing and brought in a younger generation. "It's been positively contagious," a teacher said.
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Friday, January 30, 2026
Peck's "The Wind-Up," set to the first movement of the "Eroica" symphony, doesn't rise to the challenge of the music but is refreshing in other ways.
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"Irrationalities," at the Joyce Theater, disappoints only if you are expecting Soledad Barrio, the company's world-class dancer, who is out with an injury.
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"Sons of Echo," in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don't have a monopoly on bad taste.
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The company revived and revised a work that juxtaposes formal movement with a sound score that incorporates recordings of the 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco.
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Monday, December 29, 2025
Dahlak Brathwaite's "Try/Step/Trip," part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.
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An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
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