DANCE THEATER REVIEWS

Rambert's eagerly awaited return to Birmingham showcases their reputation as Britain's national dance company, extending the reach of their world class dance to the Midlands with an accessible triple bill of works, Frames, Transfigured Night and Rooster, performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theat...

Michelle Ryan is a sensational dancer, an equally superb choreographer, and a great inspiration to others....

When the curtainss opened in Uhlein Hall last weekend at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee Ballet unfolded Michael Pink's world renowned Dracula to a mesmerized audience. While the stage Dracula seduced his prey, the ballet company danced with sensual abandon in technical beau...

According to a 1998 review of ABT by Jack Anderson in The New York Times, publicists for the company in the early days used to call the troupe 'a museum of the dance.' Anderson commented that this is a good phrase to describe the company 'provided one realizes that great museums can encourage new ar...

Festival Ballet Providence kicks off their 2015-2016 season with a somewhat underwhelming Ballet Russes Reinvented.  The program, which features three shorter pieces and a longer section from The Firebird focuses on classical pieces from Russian ballet, particularly the work of Nijinsky and tries t...

Darkly sensual and broodingly sexy, Paul Vasterling's balletic interpretation of Bram Stoker's legendary anti-hero Dracula (first presented in 1999 and revived in 2007) remains as potent and as stirring as ever, richly conceived and beautifully performed by the dancers of Nashville Ballet, who offer...

Afrofuturism is a literary, cultural and otherwise artistic aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, history, fantasy and magic realism to address issues concerning people of color. So where does queerness fit into this aesthetic? Some answers could be found in afroFUTUREqu##r, a four-da...

VelocityDC Dance Festival is true to its name.  It showcases over 20 DC-based dance companies and individual artists over four days.  Blink and you will miss it.  This festival, started in 2009, is presented in partnership with Dance Metro DC, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Shakesp...

After touring several states, "South of Gold Mountain" held its New York premiere at New York Live Arts. Renowned choreographer HT Chen and Dancers brought to life the untold stories of Chinese immigrants who settled in the South, using elements of Chinese Opera Movement, modern dance, traditional C...

On Thursday evening, October 15, 2015, the curtain rose at the David Koch Theater to reveal a colorful stage in the style of commedia dell'arte, vibrant scenery and costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, and lighting by Mark Stanley. The occasion was George Balanchine's Harlequinade, created for the New ...

She is the young woman counting rhythms silently, whispering mysteriously and distantly on the metro ride home after work. He is the young man moving to a different rhythm behind the cashier, his head bobbing like a life raft on the high seas, far from land. They are the emerging artists, the millen...

That Eryc Taylor is talented is a no-brainer; that he still needs focus is the question that needs addressing, and I think that this is a very pressing problem for his career....

Albert Einstein once said 'Dancers are the athletes of the gods.' As I sat in the audience of October 9th's Fall for Dance line up at the City Center, admiring the exquisite dance technique displayed by each company, I felt those words becoming a reality. Yet, what literal or nonliteral gods were th...

ME Dance was founded in 2011, so if you've never heard of this dance group it is definitely time to check them out. ME Dance is a professional dance company with dancers whose day jobs are at many of our local theme parks....

The Dance Enthusiast, commemorating 8 years of The Dance Enthusiast's dedication to Dance Communication, kicked off its 2015 fall season with "Dance-Art-Fusion-Family-8th Birthday Party" at Gibney Dance to celebrate the power of the arts. As part of the Enthusiastic Event Series, this is a place whe...

The NYCB's performance of October 9th was an array of movements and interpretations: some of the works were incredible and others missed the mark....

The short two-day run of Legends & Visionaries by New York Theater Ballet drew a warm showing from the public, apparently enticed by what was a soft opener to the upcoming season of live arts at the Schimmel, a fine venue at Pace University....

Picturesquely unadorned, City Center Studio 5 is a blank canvas. Therein, minds move bodies, and bodies stir minds. Choreographer Miro Magloire is a soft-spoken German visionary, and now an artful resident of New York. New Chamber Ballet, the love child of Magloire is a wellspring of opportunity for...

The East Fourth Street cultural district is a wildly fascinating and most humbly inspired reintegration of the old and new that makes New York, New York. For the patient flaneurs and public amateurs, it's a vibrant dreamscape for the 21st century....

In my arts criticism, I have sought to maintain an objective voice. As the preeminent American historian Howard Zinn said, "Objectivity is neither possible nor desirable." The fifth annual 9/11 memorial performance of Table of Silence demands a personal perspective....

Fall for Dance continued to marvel audiences with its third program. A cultural treasure for New York, Fall for Dance allows audiences access to some of the field's greatest visionaries from around the globe. The third program included a variety of pieces from passionate street dance to pristine bal...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their move to Birmingham, the Birmingham Royal Ballet presents a triple bill of contrasting works at the Birmingham Hippodrome. As a relatively small company, the dancers have to be flexible and adapt to a whole range of dance styles. This triple bill, Theme and ...

Just when you think you are Sleeping Beautied out, along comes another production. This one however, is being produced on the other side of the world by the Australian Ballet. That's a long way to travel to see something you've already encountered in 500 other productions. On the other hand, why not...