Wednesday, July 9, 2025
The late choreographer Paul Taylor had genius to spare, and left his Paul Taylor Dance Company with more masterpieces than it can keep in active repertory. In recent years, the troupe’s ar…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
Pam Tanowitz’s latest dance, the idyllic Pastoral (set to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, the Pastoral Symphony), a 60-minute work for seven dancers, portrays a bucolic day in the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSaturday, July 5, 2025
"This force of elemental nature is none other than Eiko Otake, the seventy-three-year-old interdisciplinary artist and dancer. The evening length work, SOAK, created with collaborator DonChr…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, July 3, 2025
"Lesser celebrates her anniversary with a bare-bones ode to persistence, as though spent by her decades of experimenting with contemporary issues, creating elaborate multimedia worlds, and c…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"New York City Ballet’s recent spring season successfully introduced some young dancers in major roles. In an earlier review I mentioned David Gabriel’s ability to take an audience on …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMOn Pina Bausch: "For her, her brain was in the stomach somehow, nothing intellectual. She had to respond to what she was looking for, and it had to touch her. She always considered herse…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
"Susan Jaffe, who was appointed to head the company in December of 2022, was a most formidable swan queen herself. No wonder she has this staple of the classical ballet canon in her foc…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
"In American Ballet Theatre’s production of Giselle, Count Albrecht wants to spend a day as a commoner, and sheds his aristocratic cloak and sword to appear as if he were a vill…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"This past April, I was fortunate to travel to Paris for a brief stay. Fortunately, I arrived on the last day of the Paris Opera Ballet School's season at the newly restored Palais Garnier…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Jerron Herman has cerebral palsy, specifically hemiplegia, which affects only his left side. He identifies as a disabled artist, but since his late twenties, nothing has stopped him from pu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn celebration of Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance’s 25th anniversary season, choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino reflects on her artistic journey, longstanding collaborations, and a new ocean-inspir…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, June 26, 2025
The Dance Show wholeheartedly and entertainingly captures snippets of the human experience, from the simple to the spectacular. The hour-long series of vignettes also spotlights questions th…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM "A recorded voice begins describing an idyllic scene: a flowing river next to a house with a large magnolia tree swaying above it. However, when performer/choreographer Cara Hagan closes t…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMEllen Cornfield, who founded her company in 1989, is a choreographer’s choreographer. She constructs dance phrases in surprising and endlessly inventive ways, prompting fellow dance makers…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
"It wasn’t some grand business plan or strategic launch. It was a bench in the park. A conversation between friends. A spark lit by frustration and fanned into something hopeful. That’s …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 09:24PMCombination and recombination are the DNA of Merce Cunningham’s art. Cunningham’s dances can be set and reset, folded into each other, danced to new music, capped with new choreography,…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, June 23, 2025
The inaugural presentation of the newly-formed New York Theatre Company (led by Chilina Kennedy, Katherine Winter, and Michael Scott), Machinal is a tap dance and rhythmic movement-enhan…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFriday, June 20, 2025
On a blaring hot, humid Thursday evening in the East Village, a small audience floods through the tall doors of St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery to witness Megan Williams Dance Project in V…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
Marjani Forté-Saunders, a powerful and riveting performer who inhabits character as closely as a hand in a glove, revisited Chicken Soup, Blondell Cummings’ seminal 1981 solo, at Danspace…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, June 16, 2025
"...communal thought, labor, and witnessing extends into the themes artists explore in their work: creating and holding supportive microcosms for ritual revelation, transcending difference t…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFriday, June 13, 2025
"I don't just dance because I'm a good dancer, I dance to survive. I dance to say YES to tomorrow." Fadi Khoury, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"I don't just dance because I'm a good dancer, I dance to survive. I dance to say YES to tomorrow. " Fadi Khoury, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, June 12, 2025
"Dance Africa is the largest festival annually paying tribute to the legacy and culture of Africa and its diaspora. Founded over 48 years ago by Dr. Baba Chuck Davis, this festival spans the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
MorDance Artistic Director Morgan McEwan has always had a passion for creating dance that speaks to social and environmental impact. For the presentation of her evening-length ballet Trees …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM" My social feed, like many others, is inundated with a million pirouettes and technique so clean it sparkles. American Ballet Theatre Studio Company’s social media presence is no excepti…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
"Danced to various recordings of orchestral arrangements of the well-known Bizet music, and exquisitely executed by the dancers of Ballet Hispánico, Sansano’s movement vocabulary is sharp…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, June 5, 2025
"The three-act ballet tells a girl meets boy tale: Sylvia, a huntress and handmaiden to the goddess of the hunt, Diane, resists the affections of the shepherd Aminta, only to be kidnapped by…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
"Here, a cast of riveting dancers and musicians present their show -- seamless and complete unto itself – and, blissfully undistracted, we are free to be totally entranced by their perform…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Celebrating its 79th year at the 92Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall, the Limón Dance Company continues to captivate audiences with a striking blend of physical vibrance and emotional depth." Chri…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Passing the torch is a solemn duty in the relay race that we call civilization. For the Martha Graham Dance Company, this means training young dancers to perform the works of the company’…
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