★★★✰✰ Last week’s performance, of a triple bill of Balanchine works, was as normal as anything could be in these abnormal times...
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★★★★✰ The program opened with one of Justin Peck’s best pieces in years, Partita...
Spielberg’s West Side Story offers a compelling account of contemporary problems while giving the original plot added detail. Spielberg brings West Side Story down to earth. Robbins and Wise, on the other hand, created magic.
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.
★★★★✰ The choices Jamar Roberts made for his final show were, unsurprisingly, apt. The program began with a solo for himself, You Are the Golden Hour that Would Evanesce, created for the occasion...
"Confessional and scathing" that's "NYCB soloist Georgina Pazcoguin’s frank, f**k-filled, adults-only 'Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina.'"
★★★★✰ The final applause was as warm as I have ever heard it, tinged with gratitude, for the return of a spectacle at once so grand and so intimate...
★★★★✰ 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...
Pacific Northwest Ballet Beyond Ballet: Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Ghost Variations, The Personal Element ★★★★✰ Seattle, McCaw Hall and streaming, 18–22 November 2021 18 November 2021 www.pnb.org www.mccawhall.com There are times when art meets the moment, and Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Beyond Ballet program is one of them. Tracing through lines from the AIDS era to the current...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Jamar Roberts stops dancing next month at the same time as his choreographic practice becomes ever more prominent. Claudia Bauer talks to one of the greats of AAADT about life and his Ailey world premiere next month at City Center.
Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham collaborated for over fifty years, from 1934 until his death in 1988, and the new Barbican exhibition in part covers their rich artistic relationship. The exhibition also included a live performance of Martha Graham's "Lamentation", danced by Yolande Yorke-Edgell.
★★★✰✰ Featuring Alexei Ratmansky's 'Fandango', Justin Peck's 'Bloom' and Ayodele Casel's 'Where We Dwell'...
The first Graham Studio Series event of 2021/22 was a working rehearsal of Andrea Miller's new work, "Scavengers", which will be premiered at the Joyce Theatre on the 26 October 2021. Karen Greenspan on the first of a fascinating series of events...
★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★✰✰ There really is no audience like a Fall for Dance audience: buzzing, generous, excitable, and happy just to be there.
★★★★✰ Lauren Lovette has just said farewell to NYCB. Marina Harss on some moving performances - "The ovation was heartfelt, and went on for a long time."
★★★★✰ Marina Harss with thoughts/observations on La Valse, Other Dances, After the Rain pas de deux, Agon, Monumentum Pro Gesualdo, Movements for Piano and Orchestra and Chaconne.
★★★✰✰ The Fall Fashion Gala has become a staple at New York City Ballet, a siren song to the well-heeled, who show up in their fineries year after year. It’s also a big money-maker...
★★★✰✰ New York City Ballet’s fall season in New York continues with Opus 19/The Dreamer (Robbins), Russian Seasons (Ratmansky) and Amaria - a new piece for Maria Kowroski, who is about to retire from the company, by Mauro Bigonzetti.
★★★★✰ "Boy is it good to be in the presence of dancers and musicians again." concludes Marina Harss review of New York City Ballet’s fall season opening performance.