Wednesday, March 30, 2022
In “Once Upon a Time Called Now,” the tap dancer and musician Michela Marino Lerman tries something new: a theatrical narrative.
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At City Center, the company’s season began with a debut by its first resident choreographer, Lauren Lovette, and two masterly works by Taylor.
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In a program at the Joyce Theater, Brown’s company, Evidence, presented three dances that aren’t new but seem newly meaningful.
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This Chicago company presents Irish dance of great skill, while trying, sometimes successfully, to modernize and invigorate the tradition.
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In “Piece of Work” at the Joyce, Mearns dives into collaborations with choreographers outside the ballet world, including Jodi Melnick and Beth Gill.
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“The Musician & the Mover,” a new work from the respected B-boy, had its New York premiere at New York Live Arts on Thursday.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
In “An Untitled Love,” an hourlong show at BAM, Abraham and his dancers turn the stage into a house party set to D’Angelo tracks.
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Sankofa Danazfro returns to New York with “Accommodating Lie,” a curiously muted work about the display of Black Bodies
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Pam Tanowitz’s “Four Quartets,” a rich mix of poetry, painting, music and dance, had its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy.
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This edition resembles past ones, with an international miscellany of approaches to the question of what filmed dance can be.
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The challenge of casting the Encores! revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” exposes some of the complications of tap, show business and Black history.
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Despite the pandemic disruptions, this festival of contemporary dance from Asia went on, nearly as planned, with four North American premieres.
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Chyrstyn Fentroy was a star at Dance Theater of Harlem before joining Boston Ballet, where she has been promoted to the top rank of principal.
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Michelle Dorrance and Dormeshia set the friendly tone of an evening of tap, with guests and gratitude, at the 92nd Street Y.
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The French circus company Libertivore makes its American debut, though its director had to give up her performing career.
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In Big Dance Theater’s new work, premiering at BAM Fisher, Annie-B Parson melds her sensibility with that of the Conceptual artist Guy de Cointet.
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Celebrating 10 years as the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Battle says he is most proud of the chances he has taken.
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Created during the pandemic, Zvi Gotheiner’s “The Art of Fugue,” performed by ZviDance at New York Live Arts, now registers as a work of recovery.
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Indigenous Enterprise is rooted in tradition but also has hip-hop influences, discernible in footwork, bounce and especially attitude.
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The choreographer Christopher Williams’s queer reimagining of the Narcissus myth is brilliantly conceived and costumed, though a bit stodgy.
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The Martha Graham Dance Company’s return to the Joyce Theater featured a premiere, classic repertory and an intriguing experiment in reconstruction.
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Risk and improvisation are integral to kathak, the Indian classical dance form on display in Rachna Nivas’s stunning solo performance at Dixon Place.
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This mixed-nuts dance series returned with a whiplash-inducing program of Streb Extreme Action, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and the Verdon Fosse Legacy.
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Caleb Teicher’s “Sw!ng Out” at the Joyce Theater aims to bring swing onstage as it lives today in a program that’s part variety show, part hangout.
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
Also on the bill for this free outdoor program is the choreographer’s U.S. premiere of “Quad,” a wordless television play by Samuel Beckett.
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The excellent Bharatanatyam troupe, Ragamala Dance Company, reopens the theater to live performance with “Fires of Varanasi.”
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
“In Conversation With Merce,” a virtual program, features Merce Cunningham’s “Landrover” and responses to it, by Liz Gerring and Kyle Abraham.
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