DANCE THEATER REVIEWS

Rude Mechs served up stirring, evocative theater this past Thursday in the New York Live Arts installation of their esteemed show, Match-Play. Adapted from Deborah Hay's Bessie award-winning dance, “The Match,” the piece infuses Hay's original choreography and score with original text from Rude ...

Hartford, Connecticut's Sonia Plumb Dance Company is celebrating its 25th anniversary season with an ambitious original production:  THE ODYSSEY: AN EPIC DANCE JOURNEY....

This week The Joyce Theater is presenting two unique premieres. The first is Aparna Ramaswamy's They Rose at Dawn. Accompanied by a live musical ensemble, this gifted Bharatanatyam dancer graced the stage with such vibrancy, energy, and light, leading the audience to become part of a beautiful exper...

Always a great treasure to the city, New York City Center's Fall for Dance opened its second program with great anticipation. For an affordable price, audiences get a glimpse of the wonderful world of dance, with access to some of the field's greatest visionaries from around the globe. With a roster...

Career Transitions for Dancers Presents Star Studded Retrospective at City Center....

This past Wednesday kicked off the 12th edition of the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which will feature 20 acclaimed dance companies and artists from around the world at the New York City Center. Fall for Dance is a two-week festival that has become a cultural staple here in New York-a commitment ...

The American Repertory Ballet in Princeton held its annual season premiere the weekend of September 25th and 26th at Rider University's Bart Luedeke Center Theater in Lawrenceville....

The world premiere of BalletMet's "Breaking Ballet" thrust audiences into a world where the music of Cyndi Lauper, the tradition of classical ballet and the serendipity of urban romance converged on the same stage within a single two-hour program....

Premiered by Los Angeles Ballet in 2011, GISELLE is a haunting and ethereal masterwork; the perfect embodiment of the Romantic ideal to kick off its tenth season. Continuing its mission to offer world-class professional ballet to greater Los Angeles, the season will include four full-length story ba...

Explore a world of shadows in music in this world premiere....

The People Movers presented their final installment of their inaugural season of CRAWL, a multi-disciplinary arts series. CRAWL's mission is to provide a platform for a diverse range of creative emerging artists to 'radically change the way that contemporary art is seen and experienced.' Set in a wa...

There may be no better way to chase the gloom of an unseasonably chilly and wind-whipped evening in NYC than to watch New York City Ballet's delightfully varied quintuple-bill entitled "Americana X Five". On October 2nd 2015, with Hurricane Joaquin's approach bringing on a gusty downpour, I was amon...

The Birmingham Royal Ballet's first production of the season is always a special occasion, and even more so this year as the company celebrate the 25th anniversary of their move to Birmingham. In the past 25 years, Birmingham Royal Ballet have performed Swan Lake a total of 582 times, from Thailand ...

On opening night, September 29, 2015, we experienced a great burst of energy by this focused, well-rehearsed, professional company, Batsheva - The Young Ensemble: Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director; Adi Salent, Associate Artistic Director; and Matan David, Ensemble Director. For this debut, September 2...

REACH is a non-for-profit Artistic Development Organization and is the brain child of Julliard Graduate Jason Reed who started REACH 10 years ago in 2005. REACH serves to assist a community in PA with the opportunity to mentor young people through education and the arts....

On Sunday September 27 at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal, dancer Mark C. Reis debuted his brand new cabaret show I'd Enjoy Being a Girl...on Broadway. Reis had tremendous success in 2012 with his first show at Sterling's called Diapers, Dishes and Dreams...Stories of a Dancer about his gay m...

New York City Ballet's 'Swan Lake', which opened the 2015 fall season with performances from September 22nd to 29th, is a testament to the old adage that goes 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' In creating this iteration of one of the most beloved staples in ballet's classical canon, Artistic Direct...

Camille A. Brown & Dancers, notably recognized for their introspective approach to cultural themes and socio-political dialogues, kicked off its 2015-2016 season tour with the world premiere of their newest work entitled BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play for a week-long engagement at The Joyce Theater, ru...

Trainor Dance's fifth anniversary season opened with multi-colored ghosts descending from the sky- silk skirts that featured as heavily as the dancers themselves in this excerpt of Faux Pas. The fabric was manipulated into a variety of shapes and garments, which has led many to draw comparisons with...

Collaborations in Dance often operate on the following formula: Choreographer and designated visual, film and/or sound artist decide to collaborate. They meet, they discuss, they agree on a concept, they work independently for several months. The resulting piece is a dance with supported sound and v...

The morning after the premiere of Mark Dendy's Whistleblower at Dixon Place comes disturbing news that the military is forcing transwoman and former intelligence office Chelsea Manning to follow male grooming standards while imprisoned. Dendy's timing is lucky. His piece explores Manning's mind as s...

As part of the 2015 Next Wave Festival, the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan had its US premiere of the piece Rice on September 16-19 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. The company's founder and Artistic Director, Lin Hwai-min, s a recent recipient of the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festiv...

Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography. Why then is he struggling to break free from his cages?...

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of punctuating my night at Joe's Pub for DANCE NOW- an innovative dance festival, celebrating its 20th year, featuring brief dance vignettes on a bite size stage. The pub was vibrant- a full house buzzing with anticipation under chic, mood lighting... ...