Thursday, April 10, 2025
"...Vespers, Reimagined (2025)” Miller expands the original work into a 40-minute dance-essay for five sensitive, daring dancers: Bria Bacon, Jasmine Hearn, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Chloe Londo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
"DOOM revolves around William Shakespeare’s 16th-century tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The subtitle, House of Hope, refers to the houses of Montague and Capulet. However, in DOOM’s dystopian…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Precise, syncopated steps charge, burst, and reverberate through Boy Blue’s electrifying cast. Asante’s pulsating electronic score surges through the space, its driving beats embodied b…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Thomas Lebrun’s new work for young audiences, d’amour (Love), is quirky, full of clichés, and ultimately impactful." — Ann Moradian
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Choreographer Ohad Naharin’s MOMO sneaks up on you...Not every image is powerful, or evokes a reference, but the bounty of imagery overwhelms and comforts me at the same time. This d…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFriday, April 4, 2025
Makini, the choreographer and performer also called jumatatu m. poe and known for J-Sette, presented TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout at New York Live Arts, March 13-15. In this ritualistic work for …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, April 3, 2025
"Purportedly a talk-show interview with a celebrity author whose misogynist plays notoriously belittle and abuse their female characters, Masterclass is ruefully hilarious." Robert Johnson, …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
"Caravan," choreographed and performed by Laura Donaldson, Veronica Simpson, and Elisa McGrenera...offered an unexpected and mesmerizing concept: for much of the piece, they stayed physicall…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
"New York City is a global hub for dance, thanks to its renowned resident companies, emerging local talent, and the world-class troupes that visit its stages. Gauthier Dance/Dance Company Th…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"But it gets even better: Isadora and the ballet dancers perform at the same time. Beautiful tableaux emerge from the marriage of the two worlds; and Isadora’s earthbound fluidity creat…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
"My goal is always to give audiences more ways to access the legacy. We're constantly trying to use new technology and new access points to draw new audiences in...I see our future in the sa…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"What can improvisation show us about life? For Mariana Valencia and Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero, life and improvisation are inextricable processes of knowledge and memory—reliable, fleeting…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Some of the most effective choreography comes in the birth scenes, where babies are pulled out and taken away— and in a fantastic depiction of servitude, where inmates are used as tea tra…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, March 24, 2025
"The dynamic range in SLACKTIDE fills me with awe and wonderment. Individual recklessness electrifies but never endangers the group, because the patterns are meticulously planned. My ki…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, March 20, 2025
"What a pleasure to meet the talented artists of Boston Dance Theater last weekend when they performed their short, sweet, and compelling evening of repertory at Boston’s gorgeous Institut…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, March 17, 2025
"Lehrer proves that the full spectrum of the human experience—joy, love, comedy, pain, and mourning—does in fact belong in dance." Miranda Stuck, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMOn a darkened stage a drum roll introduces choreographer, playwright and director Kayla Farrish’s Put Away the Fire, dear at the inviting Chelsea Factory, March 6-8, 2025. One hundred mi…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSaturday, March 15, 2025
"When Finkelstein asked the artists to come up with one word or a short phrase to summarize what the 92NY means to them, the answers were profound: Waters: American Dance Theater - Pulei…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
"Alfonso Losa and Patricia Guerrero have a palpable chemistry. These two young masters of flamenco complement each other’s strengths, with immaculate clarity of footwork, precision, and gr…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"It has taken 27 years, but Diabelli is finally reaching the City Center stage this week (March 12 - 16) for its New York premiere." Susan Reiter, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
"It begins to dawn on me that the show’s title suggests that this ain’t tango. Just at this moment, however, one of the dancers (with a handheld device) projects a black-and-w…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, March 10, 2025
"For young dancers, talent alone isn’t always enough—it takes opportunity, guidance, and financial support to turn dreams into reality. Founded by Joe Lanteri, the New York City Dance Al…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"We hope this gift will inspire others to give to the performing arts, and to dance, which we believe are some of the best parts of New York City life,” said Richard Pasculano. “Investin…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
"With the facilitation of the ballet company Pointeworks and its vision to foster unique, female-forward collaborations in the arts, the three Von Enck sisters will dance together on stage f…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, March 3, 2025
"In a redoubtable performance by French actress Isabelle Huppert, the tragic queen posthumously defends her reputation, her mouth agitated as she recalls episodes from her tumultuous life. T…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, February 27, 2025
"An impeccable storyteller who both directs and performs in his adaptation, Khan tells this tale of seductive power and cyclical violence through the lens of a mother’s grief." - Cecly Pl…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"His first ever evening-length work, “Anima Animal,” soars on all accounts. In it, he honors his home country’s rich history and folklore, which simultaneously brings life to a choreog…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Part of the reason I love dance is because, if I can make an idea with my body, I've succeeded. I just really encourage people not to abandon their bodies, and to find the cracks where no o…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
The big and boisterous dance, 33-minutes and 10 years in the making, and arguably Scott’s highest dance achievement, may take physical cues from Cunningham and musical cues from Cage, but …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 11:18PM"In addition to honoring Tallchief, that night’s show -- played to a packed house -- marked principal dancer Ashley Bouder’s final NYCB appearance. Renowned for her fierce technique, B…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 05:06PMMonday, February 24, 2025
"...it's like going to seven galleries in one evening because it’s got that much variety... you spend a little bit of time thinking about the art of it and not just the presentation. And I…
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