Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMJoe Lanteri, whose New York City Dance Alliance turns 30 this year, wants his dancers to have opportunities beyond competitions, including as college students.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMA law in New York City, a major dance capital, that protects artists against weight and height discrimination aims to give everyone a fairer shot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMHope Boykin radiated generosity and joy as a performer. As a choreographer and director, she is showing the struggle the audience couldn’t see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMSome dancers have found a niche on TikTok and other platforms imitating video game characters — moving like a machine’s idea of a human.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AM“Spreadsheets? That’s just the choreography of numbers,” says a participant in a program that envisions an array of approaches to administrative needs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMGaby Diaz, a winner of “So You Think You Can Dance,” has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe group brings the inclusive spirit of viral dance challenges out into the fresh air with its joyfully queer “flash Bobs.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMDance on the app has become more niche and more professionalized, but in the larger world TikTok-style dance has gained a toehold.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:13AMSeveral nonprofit dance groups have embraced collective leadership. “Dancing together taught us more about leading together,” said a co-director of Bridge Live Arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMIn the movie “M3GAN,” a robot doll’s sinister virtuosity plays on the mixture of amusement and deep unease that dancing robots often provoke.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“Spirited,” a revisionist “Christmas Carol,” leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha Nichols.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMIt’s a season of renewal and abundance — and also farewells: Yvonne Rainer makes her last dance and Kevin McKenzie says goodbye to Ballet Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AMFor the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAbdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM“Dancing With Myself,” on NBC, shows the deep influence of the dance challenge on popular culture, even as its hold on TikTok has loosened.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMTikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: This collegiate summer league team has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAshton Edwards, an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet’s rigid gender roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“Why are we not working together to fix our problems?” Entertainment-industry choreographers are uniting to address long-simmering issues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AM“Why are we not working together to fix our problems?” Entertainment-industry choreographers are uniting to address long-simmering issues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AM“We brought music to the mountains”: The rebel freestyle form born in the ’70s had a brief Olympic moment. Now it’s experiencing a renaissance online.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMElizabeth B. Yntema’s Dance Data Project has been using a steady drumbeat of numbers to push the ballet world to action on gender equality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe power of dance? It’s literal at a Glasgow arts center that is installing a geothermal heating and cooling system that runs on heat from dancing bodies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMIn a strategic feat of survival, the Lab, a Los Angeles dance studio stalwart, has transformed itself into a creative agency and “lifestyle brand.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMJack Ferver, the creator of a well-regarded body of dance-theater works, has also become a TikTok phenomenon because of a Starburst ad from 2007.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAt 18, the “Dance Moms” and internet star is returning to reality TV as half of the first same-sex partnership on “Dancing on the Stars.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThis season’s highlights? A new festival at Little Island, a birthday celebration for Twyla Tharp — and the return of all the things you’ve missed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMCalls for change in this lucrative dance subculture have become broader and deeper, encompassing issues of race, gender and predatory behavior.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe Jabbawockeez, with their something-for-everyone approach, proved that an ensemble of anonymous, masked dancers could pull in crowds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM“So You Think You Can Dance” may be on pandemic hiatus, but the show’s alums can be found on screens of all sizes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAs the spring Here/Now Festival continues, choreographer Alexei Ratmansky creates a new work for the company at New York City Ballet.
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