Dance
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A Vogue Legend, Still Enlarging Circles of Pleasure
When Archie Burnett walks onto a dance floor, he tends to take it over. That’s partly because he’s a big…
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‘Ailey’ Review: A Poetic Look at the Man Behind the Dances
Too often, the idea of Alvin Ailey is reduced to a single dance: “Revelations.” His 1960 exploration of the Black…
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American Ballet Theater to Return to Lincoln Center in October
American Ballet Theater will return to Lincoln Center for indoor performances in October, the company said Wednesday. Its homecoming season…
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Aunts Is Back, Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors
It wasn’t just that the barricades were pink, it was the shade of pink: shockingly vibrant, unabashedly joyful. On a…
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Oleg Briansky, Star Dancer Turned Star Teacher, Is Dead at 91
Changing his stage name to Briansky, he joined Roland Petit’s Les Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1946. There he met Mireille…
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‘Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters’ Review: Still Making Waves
What happens to a work of art when time displaces it from its original context, and from the impetus that…
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A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture
The brave part wasn’t writing the book. “The brave thing,” Georgina Pazcoguin said in an interview, “is going to be…
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Using the Wisdom of Dance to Find Our Way Back to Our Bodies
Somewhere in the middle of April, I started taking up space again in the world, the bigger one outside of…
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Back at the Barre, Lessons Learned
LONDON — When students at the Royal Ballet School scattered to their homes around the globe during the first British…
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Ballet Tech Names a New Artistic Director
Ballet Tech, the nonprofit group that has made ballet training accessible to thousands of promising New York schoolchildren, has a…
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A Celebratory and Scrappy Farewell (and Hello) in Queens
As Pride marches filled the city over the weekend, a festive procession of a different kind was making its way…
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Black Dance Stories: By the Artists, for the People
In addition to keeping the archive on YouTube, she hopes to find a Black-led institution to house it in a…
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Diverse Dance Companies Get a Lift From a New Partner: MacKenzie Scott
When the pandemic hit, forcing Dance Theater of Harlem to cancel performances and suspend classes, the company, like many arts…
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A Graceful Place Where Bhangra and Bollywood Meet
Growing up in California, Manpreet Toor remembers being exposed to bhangra — a lively Punjabi dance genre that is performed…
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The Ballet Star and the Russian Magnate: A Feud Roils the Dance World
She is a renowned ballerina known for dazzling technique and charismatic portrayals in title roles like “Giselle.” He is a…
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Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’
Last May, adrift in a suddenly untethered world, five former ballerinas came together to form the 152nd Street Black Ballet…
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‘In the Heights,’ Where the Streets Explode With Dance
“The streets were made of music,” Usnavi, the hero of “In the Heights.” says to a group of children near…
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Donald York, Musical Director of Paul Taylor Company, Dies at 73
In her review for The Times, Anna Kisselgoff described the score as containing “wheezing sounds, pop tunes and the occasional…
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Review: At Wave Hill, Trisha Brown Dances Fit Right In
After more than a year of performing and teaching online, the Trisha Brown Dance Company re-emerged before a live audience…
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Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm
Christopher Wheeldon’s new work for Pacific Northwest Ballet is called “Curious Kingdom.” Since the music is all French, the title…
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