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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.
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.
Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography.
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.
On September 11-12, choreographer and company director Miro Magloire kicked off the New Chamber Ballet's 2015-16 season with an intimate gathering at the City Center Studios.
For fear of falling into the Eurocentric trap of appreciating East Asian literature through an Anglophone lens, what must be said first is that Korean author O Ch?ngh?i is an incomparable visionary of the heart.
Butoh is a sacred modern art.
If art does not make the public more capable of feeling, of seeing the world through other eyes, and wanting positive change for all, then it only perpetuates class division, and in so doing, social strife.
In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers.
'Pearl' will be presented at Lincoln Center's David H.
As part of an on-going series, “GrahamDeconstructed,” the Martha Graham Dance Company presented an intimate showing at the Martha Graham Studio Theater of the iconic piece Embattled Garden, Graham's wry meditation on love's strife inspired by the story of Adam and Eve, with music by world-renown
On Saturday, August 8, 2015, The Ashley Bouder Project presented their first of two performances participating in the Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival.
Maine State Ballet's latest production of Coppelia is marked by a lovely wistfulness and lyricism and bolstered by fine choreography and impressive dancing.
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015, the Joyce Theater opened its Ballet Festival with MOVE: the company.
Noche Flamenca and Soledad Barrio collaborate to reconstruct the totemic Greek tragedy.
BalaSole Dance Company celebrated its fifth anniversary this past weekend at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.
As the capacity audience was settling in on opening night of Groundworks Dance Theatre's summer concert in Cain Park's Alma Theatre, there was a loud electronic sound stage right.
Sometimes theater magic is used so greedily that it becomes entirely unmagical.
Presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, on July 8, 2015, at the David H.
No other ballet dancer has received more publicity than Misty Copeland during the last five years.
Preeminent dance companies of New York, London, and Winnipeg all collaborated to celebrate the tenth birthday of Move: the company with a world premiere collection of works by company choreographer Joshua Beamish.
Friday at New York Live Arts reintroduced audiences to the virtuosity and individuality that sets Zvi Gotheiner's company apart from many of his contemporaries.
When the Sadler's Wells (now the Royal Ballet) first performed "Cinderella" on its triumphant 1949 debut performance at the old Metropolitan Opera, John Martin, the eminent New York Times dance critic, was not engrossed.
At the matinee performance of Swan Lake on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Misty Copeland spread her wings, giving her first New York City performance of Odette-Odile in ABT's Swan Lake, choreography by Kevin McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, to the glorious music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky.
The second program of the Royal Ballet of England's return to New York City after an 11-year hiatus – and the first appearance of the company at the Koch Theatre in Lincoln Center – was an ambitious but not entirely successful presentation of works by British choreographers.
