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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. Lang, a disciple of Twyla Tharp, is on the faculty of American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and has been an active choreographer since 1999. Lang's signature sty...
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. The world-renowned troupe from Salt Lake City does have the classics in its repertoire, but the decision by Arti...
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. Four story ballets were performed with the young dancers involved in the story telling, rather than just going through the movements....
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. Paul Taylor is one of the few artists alive to tell the tale under a spotlight of unparalleled renown....
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. Goose! is another enchanting jewel in the crown of witty and wonderful ballets by Keith Michael. Goose! brings to life characters from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Jack a...
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. A major facet of this programming is an annual international arts festival, which, this year, is focused on the Iber...
BWW Reviews: THE LEGEND OF MULAN Makes Beautiful US Debut
For only four performances at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, China Arts and Entertainment Group presented the first US performance of the Hong Kong Dance Company's The Legend of Mulan. Based on a folk poem of a young woman fighting in the Chinese army in place of her ill father, this b...
BWW Reviews: A Poignant Story Of Devotion And The Desire For THE RED DRESS Is Told Beautifully Through Dance
China Ningbo Performance & Arts Group's THE RED DRESS is a graceful expression of a love story through dance, drawing on the traditions of Southern Chinese culture....
BWW Reviews: MALPASO DANCE COMPANY Makes Triumphant Return to the Joyce
See Malpaso Dance Company at the Joyce Theater now through March 8th. Their New York City premiere program will delight the audience....
BWW Reviews: Alice Brings Wonderland To Cincinnati
Not just a ballet but also an adventure into a mystical world full of wonder, no pun intended. Cincinnati's Ballet Company took on a behemoth of a story bringing alive the magical world of Wonderland as we followed Alice through her dream. As phenomenal as the dancers were, the true accolades go to ...
BWW Reviews: New York Ballet Theatre Leaps Through the Looking Glass
New York Ballet Theatre's performance of The Alice-in-Wonderland in Follies was a vibrant, warm change from the bitter windy atmosphere that has been encompassing Manhattan. Although snow swirled around Chelsea, inside New York Live Arts the stage was warm and mystical....
BWW Reviews: American Repertory Ballet Rendition of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is Superb
On Friday, February 27th, the American Repertory Ballet (ARB) and the Rutgers University Symphony Orchestra concluded its two-night only engagement at the State Theater NJ in New Brunswick with a superb rendition of William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer's Night Dream....
BWW Reviews: Carmen de Lavellade Remembers it Well
The opening night of Carmen de Lavellade's As I Remember It at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on February 19, 2015, was electric. De Lavellade was on fire....
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet's Spectacular ROMEO AND JULIET Pleases
Three years and millions of dollars in the making, Stanton Welch's take on ROMEO AND JULIET is magnificent. This is not empty praise for the Houston Ballet's artistic director. Plot complexities aside, ROMEO AND JULIET is a simple story: two teens are in love in a world where their love is impossibl...
BWW Reviews: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Chases Winter's Chill With a Cheery and Cheeky Double Bill
New York City Ballet's 'All Balanchine III, Hear the Dance: Italy' features a perfect pairing of pieces that brim with Balanchine's incomparable sense of showmanship. Ballet is an art form, but Mr. B knew that it can also serve as sheer entertainment without losing integrity. Beyond that, he was a m...
BWW Reviews: EVIDENCE Triumphs at The Secret Theater
Juan Michael Porter II introduced Evidence: the baldwin suite with a truly majestic eloquence, his face radiant with pride as he intoned the name James Baldwin....
BWW Reviews: BELLADONNA Stuns at 92Y
The animate mastery of Adam Barruch thrilled and silenced audiences at the 92Y Harkness Dance Festival....
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