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Sunday, September 17, 2023

‘Heart of Brick’ Review: Finding Love in Black Gay Clubs by Brian Seibert

The production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet by Brian Seibert

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s “Filling Station” has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its “glimmer of queer liberation.”

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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Balanchine’s Lasting Influence on New York City Ballet by Brian Seibert

Balanchine didn’t think his ballets would last. But many have become classics, the cornerstone of repertory not just at City Ballet but around the world.

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Review: A Boogie That Stomps but Doesn’t Soar by Brian Seibert

Alexis Blake’s “Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve,” her first work to be shown in New York, focuses on strength and fragility.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Through the Eyes of a Dance Critic by Brian Seibert

The choreography on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour doesn’t ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use her simple moves to her advantage.

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

There Is No Dance Without Dance Education, Jody Gottfried Arnhold Says by Brian Seibert

Jody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right — and vital to democracy.

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Friday, August 4, 2023

Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves. by Brian Seibert

Engaging viewers’ bodies is central to this Broadway musical, a rare production that sets its audience in motion on the dance floor.

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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow by Brian Seibert

Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.

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Friday, July 21, 2023

A New Spin on Spin: Reviving a Bolognese Folk Dance by Brian Seibert

The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.

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Friday, July 14, 2023

Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape by Brian Seibert

The choreographer and his Puremovement troupe brought their touring show, “Nuttin’ but a Word,” to Prospect Park for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Translating Traditional Korean Movement to ‘a Language for Our Time’ by Brian Seibert

“One Dance,” part of Korean Arts Week at Lincoln Center, puts a contemporary spin on rituals and ceremonies.

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Monday, June 19, 2023

At River to River, Dancers Tackle Weighty Topics With a Smile by Brian Seibert

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including “duel c” on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes.

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Monday, June 12, 2023

‘It’s About the Art Form’: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Turns 40 by Brian Seibert

Carlota Santana is neither a star performer nor a choreographer. But her skills as a director have kept her company an active part of the New York scene.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

How a Dance Class in Prison Helped Inmates Find Some Freedom by Brian Seibert

An arts program in a California state facility disproves the idea that “nobody dances in prison,” encouraging inmates to channel their lives and emotions into movement.

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Sunday, June 4, 2023

Ballet Hispánico Debuts Two Works by Brian Seibert

Ballet Hispánico debuts two works: one about the 17th-century nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the other, “Papagayos,” featuring a supernatural hat.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance by Brian Seibert

Mack, whom one student called an agent of change, wants to “create a place where people feel like themselves” — and a model for the professional world.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

For Brian Henry, Finding Krump ‘Felt Like Home, but a Better Version’ by Brian Seibert

The dancer, also known as HallowDreamz, is the face of krump in New York. Now he’s found another artistic home with the choreographer Andrea Miller.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Review: Absences, S-Curves and Wonderful Asymmetries by Brian Seibert

Two South Asian dance troupes, Nrityagram and Chitrasena, exemplars of different styles, team up for a program at the Joyce Theater.

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For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change by Jesse Green, Elisabeth Vincentelli and Brian Seibert

Is theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.

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Monday, May 8, 2023

Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs by Brian Seibert

Juliana May’s “Family Happiness” at Abrons Arts Center at times feels like a punishing exercise.

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Friday, May 5, 2023

Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New by Brian Seibert

The spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Review: At Trisha Brown, a New Voice With a Family Resemblance by Brian Seibert

A premiere by Judith Sánchez Ruíz goes its own way but, like Brown’s work, shows an active, questioning mind and a sensual physicality.

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Friday, April 28, 2023

Review: Where a Boxer’s Clinch Is a Slow-Dance Embrace by Brian Seibert

Shamel Pitts’s “Touch of Red,” at New York Live Arts, takes place in a boxing ring. It’s not a competition, though. It’s a relationship.

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form by Brian Seibert

A decade after its rebirth, the company is assured and radiant in a challenging Balanchine and a moody piece set to James Blake’s electronic soul music.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Review: Pushing 100, the Martha Graham Dance Company Leans Into Youth by Brian Seibert

The two premieres in the company’s two-week run at the Joyce Theater are by fledgling choreographers whose efforts don’t add much to Graham’s legacy.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist by Brian Seibert

The choreographer Beth Gill’s “Nail Biter,” at the Fisher Center at Bard College, is absolutely deliberate but also mysterious.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings by Brian Seibert

Atamira Dance Company’s “Te Wheke” at the Joyce Theater drops you into its world and trusts you can swim in it.

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Jenny Schlenzka Steps Down From Performance Space New York by Brian Seibert

Schlenzka, who took the reins in 2017, presided over a rebranding and a new name for the organization — and an experiment in artist rule.

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Friday, March 24, 2023

Review: In ‘Alma,’ the Flamenco Star Sara Baras Warms Up by Brian Seibert

Baras’s show, the only dance production in this year’s Flamenco Festival New York, was looser than usual, with soothing moments and good times.

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92nd Street Y, a Storied Home of Dance, Gives It More Space by Brian Seibert

With a renovation, new studios and the return of dance to the Kaufmann Concert Hall, an institution once central to dance in New York invests in its future.

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Monday, March 20, 2023

Stuart Hodes, Who Danced With Martha Graham, Is Dead at 98 by Brian Seibert

Devoting his long life to dance, he was also a choreographer, an educator and an author, and was still onstage in his 90s.

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