Akram Khan Company – The Silent Burn Project
This three-hour compilation of dance films, interviews and discussions celebrates Akram Khan's burning desire to speak out to a wide audience in the occasion of his company's 20th anniversary.
View ArticleNY Fall for Dance, Program II: Who Cares?, To Be Seen, Concerto Six...
★★★✰✰ Program II of the Fall for Dance festival features premieres by Dormeshia and Kyle Abraham, plus excerpts of works by Balanchine and Lar Lubovitch...
View ArticleStella Abrera, Principal Dancer and Artistic Director, Kaatsbaan Cultural...
Stella Abrera, the much loved and recently retired American Ballet Theatre principal talks to Oksana Khadarina about her new life as Artistic Director of the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and its much...
View Article2020 – Some Memorable Performances in a Dreadful Year – New York
There’s no way around it: it’s been a miserable year for the performing arts here in the US... But still, there were highlights, moments in which for whatever reason, some spark illuminated the soul...
View ArticleDipping in to Works & Process under Covid lockdown at the Guggenheim, Lincoln...
Works & Process, a series that has been running at the Guggenheim Museum for over thirty-five years, is a valuable part of New York City’s cultural life and, in Covid-19 lockdown it's spawned much...
View ArticleSan Francisco Ballet – Digital Program 03: Symphony #9, Wooden Dimes...
★★★✰✰ All three pieces (by Alexei Ratmansky, Danielle Rowe and Yuri Possokhov) were strong, though the program itself felt a bit curious.
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – ABT Live from City Center | A Ratmansky Celebration...
★★★★✰ The live taping of four works by ABT’s resident choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is viewable during a generous streaming window through 18 April for $25, and includes the new quarantine creation,...
View ArticleAn introduction and rummage through the treasure trove that is the Jacob’s...
The Jacob’s Pillow website contains an important and incredibly diverse dance archive under the banner "Dance Interactive" - Susanna Sloat introduces an important resource and calls out many video gems...
View ArticleNew York Theatre Ballet – Spring Lift Lab Live: Program D – New York
★★★★✰ The programs are a mix of revivals and new works, many by company-members or up-and coming choreographers. Diana Byer, the artistic director, has also developed a close relationship with the...
View ArticleBAAND Together Dance Festival – Program 1 – New York
★★★★✰ Featuring dancers and works from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Hispanico...
View ArticleBAAND Together Dance Festival – Program 2 – New York
★★★★✰ Program 2 features dancers and works from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and American Ballet Theatre
View ArticleKenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Ballet and the Birmingham...
Both the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet are opening their 2021/22 seasons with the same ballet - Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. Jann Parry takes a look at how one of the most admired...
View ArticleAlessandra Ferri and Carsten Jung – L’Heure exquise (Maurice Béjart) – London
★★★★✰ Both are exceptional dance-actors, though Ferri must take the limelight as the lost, legendary ballerina of Béjart’s imagination.
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – Giselle – New York
★★★✰✰ The return of the company’s Giselle is a return to a kind of normalcy, even if the performance itself contained reminders that this time is anything but normal.
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – Giselle (four lead débuts) – New York
★★★★✰ I caught four débuts in the lead roles of Giselle and Albrecht: Skylar Brandt with Herman Cornejo on Oct. 21, Thomas Forster alongside Gillian Murphy on Oct. 22, and both Cassandra Trenary and...
View ArticleFall for Dance 2021, Program 5 – works by Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck &...
★★★✰✰ Featuring Alexei Ratmansky's 'Fandango', Justin Peck's 'Bloom' and Ayodele Casel's 'Where We Dwell'...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – Fall Gala and Pride Night – New York
★★★✰✰ "Sometimes, American Ballet Theatre is a conundrum... The repertory can be so uneven that from one day to the next, one’s opinion of the entire company shifts."
View ArticleTwyla Tharp – Twyla Now: All In, Cornbread, Second Duet, Pergolesi – New York
★★★★✰ This year is Twyla Tharp’s 80th birthday, so to celebrate, she decided to offer a concert and invite some of the country’s starriest dancers to join her...
View ArticleBallet Icons Gala 2021 – London
★★★★✰ The annual ballet gala organised by Olga Balakleets and Ensemble Productions was deferred to the end of this year because of coronavirus restrictions. Fortunately, invited dancers from European...
View ArticleMemorable Dances of 2021 – New York
Last spring, live dance began its gradual return to New York City. The wait had been long, and the longing intense. I remember the first performance I saw in New York as if it were yesterday.
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