Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater
This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history.
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Review: DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, Sadler's Wells
“When are we old? How can experience and embodied knowledge be brought into creative play? And what is the role of dance in questioning the idealisation of youth in our culture?”
Review: GISELLE: REMIX, Pleasance Theatre
Created by cabaret artist Jack Sears and Royal Ballet soloist Hannah Grennell, Giselle:Remix fuses dance and lip sync.
Review: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Presentation of SNOW WHITE at the National Arts Centre
What did our critic think of SNOW WHITE at National Arts Centre?
Review: SPRING DOUBLE BILL at Toronto Dance Theatre
Toronto Dance Theatre’s Spring Double Bill, highlighting East Asian choreographers of different dance backgrounds, is as welcome as a spring bloom.
Review: THE POWER (OF) THE FRAGILE - MOHAMED TOUKABRI, Sadler's Wells
The Elixir Festival returns to Sadler’s Wells with the same, integral mission: “rethinking perceptions around dance and age.
Review: Fifty Years Since its Founding, Ailey II Takes the Spotlight
What did our critic think of FIFTY YEARS SINCE ITS FOUNDING, AILEY II FINDS ITS SPOTLIGHT at The Joyce Theatre?
Review: INTERNATIONAL DRAFT WORKS, Royal Opera House
The evening includes ten works and the premise is an important, and pressing one: where is ballet (as we know it) going…?
Review: DOS MUJERES at San Francisco Ballet
What did our critic think of DOS MUJERES at San Francisco Ballet? BroadwayWorld reviews this pairing of two very different ballets by Latina choreographers running through April 14th at the War Memorial Opera House.
Review: LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO TO THE KENNEDY CENTER at Kennedy Center Opera House
Thursday’s return of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo to the Kennedy Center brought a full house and lots of laughs to the DMV.
Review: THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, Sadler's Wells
The Velveteen Rabbit is a story which needs little introduction, and which retains wide appeal.
Review: MAX ROACH 100 at The Joyce Theater for Extraordinary Music and Dance
Weekend plans? We have a suggestion that our readers will thoroughly enjoy.
Review: TRISHA BROWN DANCE at The Joyce Theater
The ultimate pioneer of post-modern dance, Trisha Brown, is known for her abandonment of classic shapes, twisted choreographic pathways, and the constant contrast of freedom and bondage in dance.
Review: THE WHITE FEATHER, A PERSIAN BALLET at Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of THE WHITE FEATHER, A PERSIAN BALLET at Kennedy Center?
Review: AMERICAN REPERTORY BALLET's ELEVATE Sparkles at Kaye Playhouse
What did our critic think of ELEVATE at Kaye Playhouse? For the better part of a century, American Repertory Ballet (ARB) has been the preeminent ballet company of New Jersey.
Review: ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET - CARMEN, Sadler's Wells
Inger's Carmen is successful in two key ways: firstly it tells the existing narrative of Carmen incredibly clearly, secondly it actually does so with “new resonance' - who'd have thunk it.
Review: CALIFORNIA CONNECTIONS, Royal Opera House
Original programming continues at the Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre with the ever original Yorke Dance Project
Review: DANSES CONCERTANTES/DIFFERENT DRUMMER/REQUIEM, Royal Opera House
The entire evening confirms MacMillan’s scope as a choreographer, but we knew that already right?
Review: ILLINOISE is Storytelling at its Very Finest
What did our critic think of Illinoise at Park Avenue Armory? Illinoise is, at its core, a story about stories, both the ones we tell ourselves and the ones we’re brave enough to share with others.
Review: ASSEMBLY HALL, Sadler's Wells
Assembly Hall takes place in, as you might have guessed, an assembly hall, where a group of medieval reenactors are coming together for what may be the final meeting of the General Assembly of the Benevolent and Protective Order.
Review: UNIVERSE: A DARK CRYSTAL ODYSSEY, Sadler's Wells
Getting to grips with what a mute medium like dance is trying to convey is never easy even when there is a recognisable concept like Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal.
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at San Francisco Ballet
What did our critic think of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at San Francisco Ballet? BroadwayWorld reviews the delightful production running through March 23rd at the War Memorial Opera House.
Review: AUTOBIOGRAPHY (V95 AND V96) - COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR, Sadler's Wells
Wayne McGregor has been working with digital intelligence in relation to creativity since 2017, and why not? This is the digital age after all.
Review: AIROTIC SOIREE at HK Hall
The magnificence of the human physique is on full breathtaking display at AirOtic Soirée, an acrobatic burlesque spectacular now running at HK Hall in New York City.
Review: FLAMENCO FESTIVAL at NY City Center is A Stunning Display of Dance
As part of their 80th Season, New York City Center is presenting the exciting Flamenco Festival through Sunday, March 17.
