DANCE THEATER REVIEWS

In a refreshingly to-the-point discussion session, Kate Weare and her company dancers revisited two recent works: 'Drop Down' (2006) and 'Garden' (2011)....

I recently attended a performance of La Bayadere. The dancing was excellent, but the music by Ludwig Minkus was excruciating. I realize that it has a jump, a bounce, danceable adagio notes, but after three hours of listening to it my head was spinning. I went home intending to wash Minkus out of bot...

The theme of inquiry is particularly evident in the thirtieth season celebration, Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music, presented at The Joyce Theater. Play and Play is, as it turns out, a masterfully assembled works-in-progress showing of two current pieces, "Ravel: Landscape or Portrait...

Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey features a variety of shows throughout the month of April....

The first Italian International Dance Festival was held at the Julia Richman Theater on March 22nd and the audience was delighted with the event....

A company known for its energy and humor fallas flat in some areas but excells in others during this incredibly demanding program....

American Repertory Ballet performed the program 'In Full Bloom' at the Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College....

'Breaking Surface,' performed at Theater for the New City, led the audience into an emotional experience as they followed a protagonist who is shepherded on a voyage alongside his muses. An original production by Gwyneth Larsen and William Mulholland, the grace, power, and acrobatic skill of the dan...

A just-opened multimedia exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center is a love letter to flamenco in the Big Apple. It features over 150 historical and contemporary prints, photographs, performance programs, album covers, newspaper and magazine articles, books, c...

Jane Pritchard, the curator of the dance collection at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, was responsible for much of the success of its 2009 Exhibition, Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. This exhibition, or parts of it, continues to travel around the world. Anyone with an interest in the ...

Paul Taylor has always been one of my favorite choreographers. For over half a century he has choreographed works that have entered the repertoires of ballet and modern dance companies around the world. With a mind, spirit and quest to choreograph works not only in the purest Balanchine sense, as it...

On March 9, 2013, two emerging modern dance companies, Riedel Dance Theater and Ariel Rivka Dance, shared the stage at the Ailey Citigroup Theater. They presented works not only of opposite emotional extremes, but of equal performance value....

Ronald K. Brown's Dance Company, Evidence, delighted their audience with three unique selections at The Harkness Dance Festival on Sunday....

Paul Taylor remains one of the greats of our time. Though he's been choreographing for almost 60 years, he continues to create worlds that audiences still want to enter....

In five recent dances, Laura Pawel and her troupe experimented with gesture, dialogue, and group formation. Lots of quiet humor on display-but also a lot of understated intelligence and passion....

This past Sunday, March 17th, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Igal Perry, put on a matinee show to inspire. The show consisted of five pieces, three of which were choreographed by guest artists, and three of which were world premieres....

Rarely has dance ever experienced video imagery to this magnitude. A translator from virtual reality to theatre, Umeda actualizes what computers and electronics would look like if they were humanized or artistically expressed....

The Paul Taylor Dance Company performed to a nearly packed house at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater on Sunday, March 10th. The matinee performance included three of Paul Taylor's more recent works: 'Offenbach Overtures,' 'Promethean Fire,' and the world premiere of 'Perpetual Dawn.'...

The Water is Clear and Still is set in an immersive performance installation, seen at close range and from multiple perspectives. It was a one hour exhibit of pure flight, infinite extensions, wistful dancing, emotional connections and exploratory art, based on Jamaica Kincaid's short stories from t...

On March 3, The Martha Graham Dance Company finished its season, entitled 'Myth and Transformation,' at the JoyceTheater. Since the company lost many of their costumes and sets to Hurricane Sandy, the great legacy Martha Graham-- that force of nature and company founder--created, has been tested. Ho...

Working with two very different topics, but displaying some persistent strengths, veteran choreographer and dance creator Paul Taylor stages a pair of admired dances at the David H. Koch Theater....

Ruben Olmo presented his first work as head of Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia and showed why he is one of the most original and creative minds in any genre of dance today....

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Since its bold beginning in 2006, CELEBRATE DANCE has presented 40 dance companies to over 10,000 enthusiastic audience members in the annual event and has served as a platform for artists to enhance their craft, develop a foundation of support and propel their careers locally, nationally and abroad...

On Sunday, February 24, dance professionals from all over New York City convened at Gibney Dance Center for Dance/NYC's fourth annual symposium. The sold-out 2013 symposium sought to 'explore the role and reach of NYC dance and dig deep into the current circumstances of funding, touring, marketing, ...