BWW Review: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2016: MONUMENTAL Is Intensely Thought Provoking
The performance left me questioning my reason for living in the city.
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BWW Review: Louisville's SPRING COLLABORATION - Artists Are Breaking Out
The Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet Spring Collaboration may be one of those nights we will talk about in the future.
BWW Review: Ferri, Cornejo, & Levingston in TRIO CONCERTDANCE
Ferri, Cornejo, & Levingston in TRIO CONCERTDANCE was a performance of three world-reown artists-powerful and sublime artistry in motion.
BWW Review: MARIINSKY BALLET Pays a Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya at BAM
The Mariinsky Ballet at Brooklyn Academy of Music performed a Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya
BWW Review: FJK DANCE Celebrates Middle Eastern Culture, A Fusion of Culture and Dance - A Message of Peace at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
In this time of physical proximity of different cultures, Fadi J.
BWW Review: THE WASHINGTON BALLET Celebrates Septime Webre's Legacy in Director's Cut
On the evening of Thursday, February 25th 2016 at the Eisenhower Theater in Washington, DC, Director's Cut began with a standing ovation for Artistic Director Septime Webre who just announced his departure from the Washington Ballet after a seventeen-year tenure.
BWW Review: The Mariinsky Ballet
Civil unrest, classic folk tales, imperial decadence, fairy tales, and the exotic romantic east: all tenants of late imperial Russian ballet that can at times feel irrelevant to contemporary audiences.
BWW Review: PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET Offered a Forsythe-Infused Triple Bill at New York City Center
Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet under the artistic direction of Peter Boal returned to New York City Center in February 2016 with an 'All Balanchine' program on the 24th and 25th followed by a triple bill, 'Contemporary Innovations', on the 26th and 27th.
BWW Review: ROMEO & JULIET, Birmingham Royal Ballet
The jewel in the crown of the Birmingham Royal Ballet's Shakespeare season (perhaps aside from David Bintley's new Tempest), this production of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo & Juliet has been a hotly anticipated production for many months.
BWW Review: DANCING AT THE EDGE: New Choreography + Music Create an Uptown and Downtown Edge Combined
The JCC Manhattan, in collaboration with students of NYU Tisch School presented an evening of dance that explored their connection of the Talmud and Jewish literature.
BWW Review: The Adventures of DON QUIXOTE Danced to Perfection by Los Angeles Ballet
DON QUIXOTE is a fantastic Los Angeles Ballet production, filled with the dreams of the Don (Adam Luders), the love of Kitri and Basilio (technically perfect and emotionally evocative dancers Julie Cinquemani and Kenta Shimizu) and the adventures that follow them during this epic tale.
BWW Review: ASHTON DOUBLE BILL, Birmingham Royal Ballet
The Birmingham Royal Ballet's Shakespeare season opened with Frederick Ashton's The Dream, originally choreographed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Bard's birth, and now restaged to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET's 'New Combinations' Isn't as Innovative as the Program Title Suggests
Justin Peck's 'Most Incredible Thing' headlines this program of new works.
BWW Reviews: BALLETBOYZ at Winspear Opera House, Men Take Center Stage
Upon hearing the term 'ballet' one typically envisions fluffy tutus and satin pointe shoes: the very epitome of girlish grace and beauty showcased in lithe bodies adorned in tulle and rhinestones.
BWW Review: Films Capture Mastery of Movement in Ohio State Department of Dance's DANCE@30FPS
The translation of art from the stage to the screen is often viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism.
BWW Review: ALWIN NIKOLAIS CELEBRATION Honors the Multi-Media Dance Pioneer
An array of unique movements, lights, sounds, and imagination from the ALWIN NIKOLAIS CELEBRATION at The Joyce Theater.
BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Triumphs With 'La Sylphide' and 'Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2'
Peter Martins' reconstruction of the 1836 tragicomedy, 'La Sylphide', and Balanchine's 1972 update of 'Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No.
BWW Review: Nashville Ballet's 2016 ATTITUDE Series
Without doubt, excessive exaggeration or hyperbole, Nashville is a veritable 'city of dreams,' a place where creativity thrives and collaboration is a way of life.
BWW Review: MATTHEW BOURNE'S SLEEPING BEAUTY, Birmingham Hippodrome
Completing his trio of Tchaikovsky's great ballets, Sir Matthew Bourne has turned his choreographic hand to Sleeping Beauty, with the added surtitle 'a gothic romance.
BWW Review: TRAVIS WALL'S SHAPING SOUND Brings Eclectic Dreamscape to the Beacon Theatre
Travis Wall's Shaping Sound performed an eclectic dance program at New York's Beacon Theatre on February 8, 2016.
BWW Review: Blending the Beauty of the East and West with NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, in conjunction with its third Annual Lunar New Year Celebration, partnered once again with the prestigious Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in an all new celebration of Chinese arts and culture.
BWW Review: BalletMet Proves Theme of Humanity isn't Black and White in CARMEN.MAQUIA
Upon first glance, the sterile, white sets that greet the audience once the curtain rises on BalletMet's "Carmen.
BWW Review: Ohio State Department of Dance's WINTER CONCERT Driven by Intensity, Emotion
From the stomping of rhythmic footsteps reverberating unaccompanied through the darkness to the lyrical interpretation of biblical verses that merged multimedia art with movement, the Ohio State Department of Dance's "Winter Concert" showcased nine works laced together by the common threads of inten
BWW Review: Digging in Deep with JOYA POWELL/MOVEMENT of the People Dance Company
The Annual FLICfest, founded and curated by Jeramy Zimmerman and now in its sixth year, gave six choreographers an opportunity to present feature-length independent works at the Irondale Center, located in the heart of Brooklyn's Downtown Arts District.
BWW Review: Dada Masilo's SWAN LAKE Sets New Standard for Ballet and Beyond
The house was full on the opening night of Dada Masilo's Swan Lake at the Joyce and I quickly realized why.