“Sons of Echo,” in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don’t have a monopoly on bad taste.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMThe company revived and revised a work that juxtaposes formal movement with a sound score that incorporates recordings of the 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PMDancers from Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia demonstrate the fundamentals of their styles, revealing deep historical roots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMDahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMAn operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMNew works by Jamar Roberts and Matthew Neenan had their premieres at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:40PMTwyla Tharp led the way with her distinct brand of American classicism, along with other artists who stepped it up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMEphrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57AMAfter 40 years of making dances as complicated as human consciousness, Tere O’Connor revives his first work at New York Live Arts. Bonus: He will talk about it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:47AMMaija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMAt the Joyce Theater, “American Street Dancer” offers a history lesson in the form of a family’s house party.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PMRuth Childs, the niece of the renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs, got over being intimidated by her aunt’s achievements. Now, she debuts her own work in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMThe French troupe Compagnie Dyptik is making its United States debut with a show seemingly inspired by pandemic isolation and its aftermath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:19PMAbigail Levine’s new work, at Target Margin Theater, is terrific as a kind of enhanced reading, but lags on the level of choreography.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PMIn “What Is War,” two singular artists, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, grapple with memories of China and Japan in World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PMAt the new Powerhouse: International festival in Brooklyn, Christos Papadopoulos debuted an oblique, glacially cool work with seven dancers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PMAmerican Ballet Theater opened its season with an all-Twyla Tharp program, featuring her first dance for the company, “Push Comes to Shove,” and the for-the-ages “Bach Partita.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined “Emperor Jones.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMThe annual festival, popular for its take-a-chance-priced tickets, opened with a show featuring work by Jamar Roberts, the tap dancer Dario Natarelli and Akram Khan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:10PMMette Ingvartsen’s “Skatepark” will inaugurate the new Powerhouse: International festival, showcasing the vast performing space of Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMAt Japan Society, Emergences celebrates Mishima’s centennial. “One of the things that I absolutely love about Mishima is that I don’t absolutely love him,” said one participant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe Down to Earth festival answers a pandemic-era call for changes in the performing arts, offering free events in city parks and urban spaces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMA tempestuous new work by the choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber debuts at Little Island.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:38PMTiler Peck has curated a program of Robbins’s dances at the Joyce Theater featuring casts of ballet luminaries and rising stars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMHer connection to the great modern dancer lasted a lifetime, from studying with her as a child to leading the Martha Graham Dance Company as an artistic director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMNoche Flamenca’s new production was less focused than usual on its standout, Soledad Barrio, making room for talented soloists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:47AMTo celebrate the shows’ golden anniversaries, the Broadway star Robyn Hurder demonstrates what makes their choreography so special.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMIn American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05AMSwing and Lindy Hop, dance forms created by Black Americans in the 1920s and ’30s, are flowering in Korea. New York will get a taste in a mini festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMHer stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham’s, after their founders died.
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