BWW Reviews: DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM is Magnificent at City Center
Dance Theatre of Harlem enjoyed a magnificent season at City Center.
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BWW Review: Festival Ballet Steps into Spring with Innovative UP CLOSE ON HOPE
Festival Ballet Providence closes its 2014-15 season with a showcase almost entirely composed of contemporary dances.
BWW Reviews: DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM Comes Home to City Center
Opening night of Dance Theater of Harlem's 2015 season at City Center began with a curtain speech by Artistic Director Virginia Johnson, who was visibly more excited and confident on this third anniversary of the rebirth of the legendary company than she had been in 2014 when DTH danced at Jazz at L
BWW Reviews: WE'LL HAVE MANHATTAN: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart by Dominic Symonds
Dominic Symonds analyzes the early collaborations between Rodgers and Hart in a book published by the Oxford University Press.
BWW Reviews: Maine State Ballet Mounts Swashbuckling LE CORSAIRE
For its spring production Maine State Ballet presents a stylishly swashbuckling account of Le Corsaire, vividly choreographed by Linda MacArthur Miele (after Petipa) and elegantly designed by Gail Csoboth.
BWW Reviews: Karole Armitage's ON THE NATURE OF THINGS at AMNH
For three nights only, after hours at the American Museum of National History, the spotlight was put on climate change.
BWW Reviews: FrenetiCore's DANCING WITH THE MACHINE is Powerfully Captivating
FrenetiCore Dance enthralls audiences with its energetic Spring Production of DANCING WITH THE MACHINE.
BWW Reviews: Seeking Harmony in the Art of Activism
Both Erhlich and Armitage's welcoming remarks suggested ambivalence with the scope of this work; Erhlich even said, "we'll just see", and so the evening began.
BWW Reviews: An Eclectic Evening for PAUL TAYLOR'S AMERICAN MODERN DANCE
During its premiere season at the David H.
BWW Reviews: THERE AND HERE Moves at Schimmel Center
She awoke, as in the womb, floating through a numinous, fluid-suffused air.
BWW Reviews: JUILLIARD DANCES REPERTORY Shines at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Juilliard Dances Repertory artistic director Lawrence Rhodes fused together an evocative evening, a masterful juxtaposition of opposites, ruminating on the perennial themes of tradition and modernity through dance.
BWW Reviews: Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Presents Harlequinade and Cavalry Halt
On March 27 & 28, 2015, Co-Artistic Directors, Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Chernov presented, at Peter Norton Symphony Space, a double bill of Marius Petipa's ballets of another era, well chosen for their young company, a large number of whom are students at the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical
BWW Reviews: The Contained Energy of Paul Taylor
A recent Lincoln Center showcase reveals the sense of careful composition behind a visionary American artist.
BWW Reviews: JESSICA LANG DANCE Mixes Movement with Graphic Elements
Although Jessica Lang Dance was founded in 2011, Artistic Director Jessica Lang is no newcomer to the dance scene.
BWW Reviews: BALLET WEST Debuts at the Joyce Theater in NYC
On May 25th 2015, opening night of Ballet West's debut season at the Joyce, three New York premieres and a world premiere showcased the company's admirable command of contemporary ballet.
BWW Reviews: BalletMet's CINDERELLA Dances Into the World of Fairytales
From the moment the house lights dim and the curtain rises, audiences of BalletMet's "Cinderella" are transported to an imaginative world of fairytales-a place where princes and princesses reside, fairy godmothers have magical powers, and woodland creatures and nymphs dance and play.
BWW Reviews: Manhattan Youth Ballet Presents STORIES THAT DANCE
The final performance of Manhattan Youth Ballet's spring production, Stories that Dance: Shakespeare and his Legacy, was full of joy.
BWW Reviews: CAVE OF THE HEART Inspires at 92nd Street Y
Martha Graham, the first dancer to perform at the White House, who received the United States' highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom at the Bicentennial, is peerless in her affirmation of an authentic American lexicon, as through the ineffable beauty of the human body in movement.
BWW Reviews: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Delights at Lincoln Center
To capture the American idiom through an art form demands brazen courage, and a rare will dedicated to a lifetime of unapologetic originality.
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet Proves World-Class Status With MODERN MASTERS
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet Proves Excellence With MODERN MASTERS
BWW Reviews: EVENT Astonishes at The Joyce Theater
Merce Cunningham is still one of the most challenging artists the United States has ever produced.
BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2015: ORBO NOVO - CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET Goes Inside A Stroke Damaged Brain
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presented their second performance in the Festival Theatre, following the very successful first production last night, Mixed Rep.
BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2015: MIXED REP - CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET Was An Evening Of Beauty And Emotion
The first of two performances by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, from New York, Mixed Rep, featured three short and contrasting pieces.
BWW Review: New York Theatre Ballets' GOOSE!
New York Theatre Ballet's production of Goose! was one of the offerings of the company's Once Upon a Ballet 2014-2015 series.
BWW Reviews: Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras Makes Kennedy Center Debut with VOCES, SUITE FLAMENCA
One of the greatest things about the Kennedy Center is its long history of exposing Washington, DC audiences to a healthy selection of international theatre, music, and dance artists.