Dance
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Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era
Dance, perhaps more than any art, is one of reinvention and renewal, and New York City Ballet’s fall season showed…
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Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebounds
The concept of social distancing simply does not exist in tango. This dance born in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos…
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Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’
Maria Kowroski, the reigning principal of New York City Ballet and the last company member to have worked with Jerome…
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Fall for Dance Review: Splats, Blue Moods and Go-Go Grooves
The happy crowd attending the opening night of New York City Center’s Fall for Dance festival on Wednesday snaked around…
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An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’
LONDON — “Be like a jellyfish,” Wayne McGregor said, undulating his upper body expressively. The dancers on the darkened stage…
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At Bessie Awards, Dancers Gather to Celebrate Pandemic Art
The pandemic brought much of the performing arts world in New York to a halt starting last year. But it…
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The Flea Announces New Resident Company and a Focus on Black and Queer Artists
The Flea, a notable Off Off Broadway company that discontinued its most prominent programs for emerging artists in December, effectively…
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The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’
August On Aug. 3, rehearsals began for the fall season, which included the creation of two new ballets: one by…
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Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co.
Dancers possess agility of both the body and the mind, but the dance artists behind “Sw!ng Out” are especially brimming…
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‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World
“Arrghh, the pressure!” exclaimed the composer Lido Pimienta, after being told that she and the choreographer Andrea Miller were the…
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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Covid Relief Grants
The New York Public Library, the USS Constitution Museum in Boston and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Va., are…
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Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’
Choices picked out of a hat: It’s a gambit of magicians and improv comedians, a way of showing an audience…
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Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet
It’s been a long 18 months spent languishing in soft clothes, but, finally, fashion is making a comeback on the…
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A Dance Show on a Cruise Ship? It’s Not What You Think.
On a late-summer night, three choreographers greeted friends at the New York opening of their latest show, exchanging hugs and…
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Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision
As audience members filed into the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night, Bill T. Jones was already there, a lone…
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Review: A Choreographer Stakes an Independent Claim
As you take your seat for Alejandro Cerrudo’s “It Starts Now,” the stage is already set, half covered with a…
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Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element
To make a dance to some of Handel’s “Water Music” and title it simply “Water” is just the kind of…
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After a Choreographer’s Suicide, Ballet Confronts Tough Questions
MUNICH — The choreographer Liam Scarlett’s “With a Chance of Rain,” a lush, expansive ballet set to a melodic Rachmaninoff…
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Review: Keeping the Dance Fires Burning at the Joyce
The Joyce Theater, open to audiences again, has been transformed. I don’t mean by the new seats, which look like…
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Review: At City Ballet, Getting Back to Showing New Work, Live
New York City Ballet’s performance on Wednesday night wasn’t its first in its home theater at Lincoln Center after 18…
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