Wednesday, November 29, 2017
A quintet of Ailey’s strongest dancers reflect on their humble beginnings, plus their greatest challenges performing the works of the company at the pinnacle of contemporary dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThursday, June 15, 2017
The acclaimed company will also present a new production of The Winter in Lisbon and Ailey's masterpiece Revelations June 14–18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Melanie Cortier's bland balletic choreography of "The Beatitudes," a 35-minute dance play about the Beat movement, bears no resemblance whatsoever to Beat sensibilities.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis charming dance-filled musical for the kindergarten set will amuse adults as well.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis updated contemporary-dance version of the 19th-century ballet classic is rich in serious emotional content and sharp satirical detail, making for powerful, hard-edged theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis visually impressive multimedia retelling of the Persephone myth, from "Side Show" scribe Warren Leight, is dramatically dull and musically innocuous, with a bland Julia Stiles in the title role.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
All 15 members of the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet are such phenomenal dancers that, when watching the company perform, one is so awestruck by how good they are that it is difficult to foc…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAn entire evening of Dwight Rhoden's choreography is exhaustingly monotonous. The dances feel like chains of unmotivated tasks, which all become a wearisome waste of energy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis offbeat, mildly amusing cabaret-style adaptation of the dark fairy tale is performed by highly skilled comic actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMChoreographed in 1991 by Mark Morris and being presented in New York for the first time since 2002, "The Hard Nut," performed by Mark Morris Dance Group, is as tickling as ever.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater always offers exquisitely danced performances, teeming with powerful athleticism and pungent passion. Its Dec. 16 performance was no exception.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMParallel Exit's new show is less narrative-oriented than before, but it's nevertheless a hysterical hour of masterfully performed physical comedy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMGallim Dance offered a stunning performance of its artistic director Andrea Miller’s intriguing "For Glenn Gould," while the talented performers of Sidra Bell Dance New York made all t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDavid Parsons' choreographic style might be tagged "modern dance lite," yet out of a buoyant lexicon grounded in selective borrowings from classical ballet, Graham technique, and Paul Taylor…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMSusan Stroman's new work for New York City Ballet fails to captivate, though it features a beguiling performance from Sara Mearns.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPaul Taylor Dance Company proffered an uneven triple bill that sandwiched off-putting "Brief Encounters" between enchanting "Black Tuesday" and uncomfortable "Arden Court."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMElisa Monte Dance launched a weeklong season at the Joyce Theater with an opening-night gala featuring four works choreographed by Monte over a span of 32 years.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Smuin Ballet' s exhilarating evening of highly entertaining dances by Trey McIntyre, Michael Smuin, and Amy Seiwert, is performed with polished gusto.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:47AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Written and performed by Mark Chrisler, "The Art of Painting," a Fringe Festival show, is a masterful piece of heady writing about painter Jan Vermeer.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:24AMA dandy one-man Fringe show written and performed by Scott Baker, "Bang!: The Curse of John Wilkes Booth" explores the myth that Booth was never captured.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:51AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and overflowing with sublime images, haunting music, and subtle comedy, "In Paris" is nonetheless dramatically unengaging.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:32AMSunday, July 22, 2012
Parallel Exit's "I Love Bob," at Joyce SoHo, is a bitingly satiric though not terribly funny wordless musical with winsome Hollywood dance parodies.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:16AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Chinese puppeteer Yeung Faï's "Hand Stories" jarringly alternates delightful sequences of traditional hand puppetry with weighty autobiographical drama.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:50AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Paris Opera Ballet's enchanting performance of "Giselle" features humor, eloquent footwork, realistic acting, and a definitive interpretation of the Wilis.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:40AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Choreographer Trisha Brown's infinitely interesting "Astral Converted" is a perfect work for contemporary art fans with a bent for architecture or geometry.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:33AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Shantala Shivalingappa is a beguiling dancer, and though her evening of four solos includes a work by Pina Bausch, the modest program leaves one wanting.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:04AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Celebrating its 65th anniversary, the Limón Dance Company is offering superb renditions of works by José Limón, Jiri Kylián, and Rodrigo Pederneiras.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:43AMThursday, June 7, 2012
More experimental play than dance-theater work, “Beginning of the End of the…” may thrill Pirandello fans but not followers of its creator, David Gordon.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:36AMSunday, June 3, 2012
Written and performed by Alicia Barnatchez and Erin Leigh Schmoyer, "Ye Elizabeths" is a teasingly short musical about history that leaves you wanting more.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:20AMSunday, May 27, 2012
The ingenious Alex Webb does double duty, as writer and actor, in "Amelia," a riveting Civil War play made even more affecting by its site-specific setting.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:35AMThursday, May 24, 2012
An academic exercise in opaque theatrical symbolism, "Here I Go" is 60 minutes of the rambling thoughts of a suicidal grandmother who idolizes Dolly Parton.
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