DANCE THEATER REVIEWS

The 92nd Street Y had Argentine Tango Milongas demonstrations, lessons, and open dancing hosted by Dardo Galletto. Many turned out to enjoy the evening....

Ten dancers of all shapes and sizes take the stage in uniform black costumes. The lights come up, and we see them standing in height order, center stage, in a vertical line. The classical and bubbly Franz Joseph Haydn score begins to play, and at first, I judge harshly. My first thought is: this is ...

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College started off its 2013-2014 season with the bang of Savion Glover's tap shoes. The venue hosted a performance of Savion Glover's STePz on November 2nd. In the program, Glover listed himself simply as "hoofer, father, husband." Nevertheles...

Su-En, one of Sweden's foremost Butoh dancers, explores darkness in her work 'SOOT'...

For never was there a tale of two star crossed lovers more that Michael Pink's adaption of Romeo and Juliet. The Milwaukee Ballet presented the full-length production on Thursday night with dazzling panache throughout the three acts to the audience's appreciative delight....

American Repertory Ballet presented 'Premieres' at the Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg to delight their audience....

You know that song from A Chorus Line, Everything was Beautiful at the Ballet. Well, at Christopher Wheeldon's new version of Cinderella, the costumes and scenery are exquisite, as is much of the dancing. As for the ballet itself, it is a muddle, which I attribute more to the music of Sergei Prokofi...

This quirky ballet company blended ballet on pointe and contemporary/modern dance together to create a smooth and flowing movement....

Ballets With A Twist performed 'Cocktail Hour' at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway and the audience was captivated....

Spartacus is like camp. Not summer camp, but Susan Sontag camp, who wrote in that brainy, immortal essay , 'Camp helps account for the fact that opera and ballet are experienced as such rich treasures of Camp, for neither of these forms can easily do justice to the complexity of human nature. ' This...

With intervallic thrusts of kiss-and-tell performance, myendlesslove plunges further and further into the depths of heartbreak, and it is not the kind of heartbreak that we recover from experiencing easily, even as a third party....

As I mentioned last week in my largely favorable review of one of the San Francisco Ballet's mixed bills at the Koch Theatre in NYC, the company under the direction of Helgi Tommasen is first rate. Yet the excellent dancing in Christopher Wheeldon's 'Cinderella', which I saw on Friday evening, could...

With "Sleeping Beauty", the third ballet in Matthew Bourne's Tchaikovsky trilogy that includes "Nutcracker!" and "Swan Lake", the award-winning British choreographer has once again proved himself to be not only a gifted dancemaker but a masterful storyteller. The production, correctly billed as "A G...

'Give the people what they came for' James Brown said in reference to his shows, and it seemed that the Apollo set out to do just that on the opening night of 'James Brown - Get on the Good Goot' dance celebration concert in Harlem....

San Francisco Ballet's mixed rep program showed off its strong dancers from top to bottom featuring the star power of resident prima ballerina, Maria Kotchetkova....

Italy came to New York City, and in a big way! Not speaking Italian wouldn't stop anyone from enjoying this show. Voices of Italy was fantastic! Full of passion and energy, the show was nonstop excitement from beginning to end....

In music, intermezzo is a musical composition that is partnered with another work of art, usually a play or other, larger musical compositions. Following this definition, Intermezzo, a spectacular new ballet company, entirely lives up to its name. There is no greater joy than an evening at the balle...

Performing at the Hamilton Stage, the American Repertory Ballet staged three joyous short ballets: VIVA VIVALDI, CARESS, and FAERIE TYME....

The 45th anniversary season of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company provided a glimpse into Lar Lubovitch's prolific career as a dance maker, showcasing both well-known and new works. Program B, presented at The Joyce Theater from October 15-20, featured a variety of pieces that emphasize Lubovitch's tal...

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I still remember how surprised I was as a young dancer to learn that the first professional ballet company in the United States, the San Francisco Ballet, was not established until 1933. Given the fact that the Paris Opera Ballet was founded almost three centuries earlier in 1673, I realized that da...

Choreographer Mark Stuart unveils his vision of social history in America through a spectacular combination of dance styles, with an eye to Broadway...

I have always told my ballet students that because the art form is kept alive by each new generation of dancers, we must be as proficient in historical styles as we are in contemporary techniques. The important works of the past cannot be hung on museum walls the way the paintings of the masters are...