Dance
Helgi Tomasson to Step Down at San Francisco Ballet
After leading the San Francisco Ballet for more than 35 years, Helgi Tomasson announced on Wednesday that will he step...
Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco
When Grace Jones was strutting around Studio 54 and Donna Summer records were playing at New York clubs, Empire Rollerdrome...
A Choreographer and Her Girls Retell a Tragedy Through Dance
For the choreographer Tiffany Rae, dance is a language, deeper and more articulate than words. “I’m better at showing...
‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition
CHICAGO — In the world of amateur ballet, each year has a familiar rhythm. Ballet academies hold auditions for...
The Ailey Company Meets the Challenge of This Lost Season
One section of “Revelations Reimagined” does manage to be of the moment: a socially distanced version of the duet...
‘On Pointe’: The Real-Life Adventures of Some Very Young Dancers
The filmmaker Larissa Bills wasn’t the only girl growing up in the 1970s to obsess over “A Very Young...
In Miami, Sugarplum Dreams Under the Palm Trees
Lourdes Lopez, the artistic director of Miami City Ballet, is facing a new unknown. It’s a fear she’s never...
Ann Reinking: Playful, Refined and With Legs for Days
When I think of Ann Reinking, I see legs. Legs in shimmering black tights. Legs in heels. Legs that...
Review: This ‘Nutcracker’ Is a Fantasy You Can Enter
You may have seen the ballet “The Nutcracker” countless times. Watching it every year might be a holiday tradition....
Kaatsbaan Announces Spring Festival
American Ballet Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group and dancers from New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance...
Review: Finding Hope in an Unfinished Pam Tanowitz Premiere
On Saturday, the Joyce Theater livestreamed a premiere by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz, who began the program by saying,...
Black Ballerina, Playing a Swan, Says She Was Told to Color Her Skin
Chloé Lopes Gomes had done her hair and makeup and fixed the feathered swan headdress in place before the...
Sara Leland, Ballerina of Passion and Abandon, Dies at 79
Sara Leland, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet who was entrusted with staging George Balanchine’s ballets worldwide...
Two Ailey Stars Will Now Turn Their Focus to Baby Steps
Glenn Allen Sims and Linda Celeste Sims did something many couples do: They had a baby. But they’re no...
Studying ‘The Nutcracker,’ Students Listen, Touch, Move Like Snow
On a November afternoon, seven young students twirled, hopped and lifted their chests to the sky, as Waltz of...
Who Was the Star? In This Dance Film, It Was the Camera
Draped over a bare wooden floor with one leg bent behind and the other extended to the side, the...
Longtime Board Chairman Steps Down at Apollo Theater
When Richard D. Parsons joined the board of the Apollo Theater in 1999, the nonprofit organization in Harlem was...
Netflix’s ‘Move’ Strips Dance Down to Clichés, Not Essentials
The camera’s eye roves over the dancers’ bodies, and overlaid on the images are headlines, in bold orange letters....
Faye Driscoll Awarded New York Live Arts Residency
The choreographer Faye Driscoll is the next recipient of New York Live Arts’ robust biennial residency award, the organization...
To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible
It’s not polite to stare. Especially if you perceive the person you’re looking at as different in some way....
