Dance
Chirping Birds, Dancers and an Audience That Tops Out at 10
The last afternoon I spent at New York Theater Ballet was for a rehearsal in February. Now I was...
Review: A Quieter, Virtual Fall for Dance, With Starriness Intact
For 17 years, New York City Center’s annual Fall for Dance festival has relied on a winning formula. Offer...
Ballet Finds Itself on Higher Ground, Overlooking Lincoln Center
A dance on a rooftop is a mysterious thing. How is it that a roof is more like water...
The Bubble Doctor Is In: She Keeps Dance Companies Moving
Bubble, part of the growing coronavirus vocabulary — the R-factor, zoonotic, sheltering in place — can be used as...
In France, a Festival Delivers the Essential: Dance to Audiences
MONTPELLIER, France — At the end of her new solo, “Goldberg Variations,” on Tuesday night at the Montpellier Danse...
Ford and Mellon Foundations Unveil Initiative for Disabled Artists
The garment maker Sky Cubacub, the dancer Jerron Herman and the filmmaker and sound designer Jim LeBrecht are among...
Review: A Dystopian ‘Swan Lake’ Bridges Ballet and Modern Dance
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France — Onstage, 26 dancers. In the audience, 550 masked people. And in the theater’s restaurant, a full...
A Digital Ailey Season Celebrates ‘Revelations’ at 60
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the latest company to move ahead with the creation of new work while...
In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World
The other day, I took a tour around Nrityagram. This small community near Bangalore, in southern India, is an...
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners for 2020: The Full List
The MacArthur fellowships, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “extraordinary originality and dedication,”...
‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance
LONDON — Dancer, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, prodigal son, perfectionist, art-world darling, club-world star: Michael Clark was for a long...
Hidden Talents at Ballet Theater, and a Way to Keep Moving
Watching: ‘Moving Stories’Fans of American Ballet Theater are well aware of Herman Cornejo’s prowess and flare as a dancer,...
This Year, the Fall for Dance Festival Is Digital
Fall for Dance, New York City Center’s annual festival, will be digital this year, its 17th. Performances will be...
With Fancy Footwork, a Dancer’s Home Doubles as a Studio
The one-bedroom co-op in Queens that Calvin Royal III shares with his partner, Jacek Mysinski, is not what you’d...
Review: In This Dance, Death Is Out in the Open
Over the past couple of months in New York City, some dance artists have braved the process of presenting...
‘Beau Travail’ Finds the Rhythm of Life (and Dances Away the Pain)
Is it a dance of death? A fantasy to become someone else? The solo that ends Claire Denis’s film...
Fill Up on Tea or a New Film by Steve McQueen
Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that...
New Initiative Will Grant $156 Million to Arts Groups Run by People of Color
Some of the nation’s most prominent philanthropists and foundations announced plans on Thursday to donate more than $156 million...
Baryshnikov Arts Center to Commission New Online Works
Baryshnikov Arts Center announced on Thursday a new commissioning program that aims to encourage choreographers and other artists to...
Watching a Choreographer Build: Trisha Brown’s Unusual Archive
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the final stages of the acquisition process have taken longer than planned. Ms. Dufty...
