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It was old hands on deck Tuesday night when Elisa Monte Dance opened its 30th anniversary season with retired guest dancers performing some of Monte's greatest hits. But even these distingu…
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New York City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” has been a cherished part of the holidays since 1954. But even a tradition can feel brand-new when a group of promising young dancers...
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Once upon a time, before there was Black Friday, the holiday season began with “The Nutcracker.” Like an old friend, it still visits every year. And though there are versions...
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The dance world’s never been short on husband-and-wife partnerships — think New York City Ballet’s Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, or Linda Celeste Sims and Glenn Allen Sim…
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Tiler Peck wants you to know there’s more to being a ballerina than standing on your toes. Which is why you’ll find her — discussing dance, romance and more —...
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The belles of the ball in San Francisco Ballet’s “Cinderella” are the brilliant designs dreamed up by Julian Crouch (who gave us Broadway’s “Big Fish” and “Addams Family”) an…
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The real fun in New York City Ballet’s “Just for Fun” Friday night was a Battle of the Ballerinas. The opening two works on the triple bill were shaky, but the final piece on the prog…
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Kicking off the 10th anniversary of Fall for Dance, two singular stars shone the brightest. Gabriel Misse and Sara Mearns come from different worlds — tango and ballet — but on Wednesday…
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New York City Ballet’s fall gala Thursday night had a passion for fashion, both on the stage and the red carpet. Three international designers clothed new ballets, while glittery guests �…
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Having Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy star in “Forever Tango” is like having Lady Gaga headline a polka party: One doesn’t have much to do with the other, but it’s guarantee…
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Stravinsky meets Cirque du Soleil in “A Dancer’s Dream,” an intriguing but confusing grab bag of a show, in which the New York Philharmonic, puppeteers, opera singers, dancers and even…
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Was it a spiritual quest or just a fabulous workout? The Ailey company celebrated its first Lincoln Center season in more than a decade Wednesday with “Four Corners,” a new work by Ronal…
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Ballet’s search for the Next Big Thing can get as frantic as a speed-dating princess. Happily, New York City Ballet’s Justin Peck is no frog.
The 25-year-old choreographer has done three…
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Song and dance aren’t always perfect partners. Queen Latifah was the guest of honor at New York City Ballet’s spring gala Wednesday, where her singing overshadowed the dancing.
The gala …
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It takes a lot of living to make great art about dying. Stephen Petronio is no longer the hot, young post-modern dancer he was in the late ’70s. Now 57, he’s something more — a mature …
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‘Ballet is woman,” Balanchine famously said, but this spring and summer, the dance world is raining men. One of them is 22-year-old Gentry George, who joined Ailey II last summer. Since …
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It’s been a long voyage home for Dance Theatre of Harlem. The trailblazing company Arthur Mitchell founded in 1969 shut down due to lack of funds nine years ago. Opening Wednesday at Jazz …
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Talk about having all the right ingredients: Mark Morris opened his season Wednesday night in his intimate, 150seat theater with live music and a legend— Mikhail Baryshnikov, who joined th…
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At American Ballet Theatre, spring means stars. One of the brightest is Muscovite Natalia Osipova, a brash technician overflowing with emotion. Her performance with David Hallberg in “Rome…
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AILEY II — the farm team for the main troupe — is all about the new this year: Artistic director Troy Powell is new, as are seven dancers, and there’s enough budding talent here to dra…
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When you put flamenco in a big theater, you risk turning an intimate art into an Iberian “Riverdance.” But maybe that’s not always such a bad thing.
As part of New York’s 12th annua…
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Modern dance legend Martha Graham was upstaged by her imitator Wednesday, when her company’s opening program paired two riffs on Greek mythology. There was one by Graham and one by Richard…
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Is importing an evening of Balanchine’s ballets to his home base like bringing beans to Boston? Not when it brings us a dancer who’s matured into a full-fledged ballerina.
Pacific Northw…
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The spills on Tuesday’s opening night at New York City Ballet didn’t chill the festivities. There was one fall in each of the three pieces that introduced the company’s two-week Tschai…
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As the title suggests, there’s more talking than turning in “From the Horse’s Mouth.” But if you’ve ever wondered about the lives of male dancers and choreographers, here’s your …
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Variety is the spice of Ailey. As artistic director Robert Battle winds up his second season, he continues to broaden the repertory — making for programming where the choreography is (almo…
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Since opening at the Joyce last week, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has had a surfeit of swans: white, black and even dying ones. Those birds of a feather were the best of a funny fl…
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How do you keep your act fresh after 40 years? Mummenschanz knows but, as always, nobody’s talking.
The singular hybrid of mime and puppetry the Swiss-based group created seems awfully low…
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There’s more to Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center season than “Revelations.” Yet there’s a reason why it’s on so many of the bills: like “The Nutcracker,” it’s something you…
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It’s a variation on the classic nightmare: finding yourself onstage in a dance recital — but you don’t know how to dance. And that’s exactly what happens in “Untrained,” the chee…
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