Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most important figures in ballet, is supporting Ukraine by staging “Giselle” with a company made up of Ukrainian refugees.
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Getting its delayed New York premiere, “Of Love and Rage,” at Ballet Theater, is like a time capsule of a more carefree period of Ratmansky’s life and art.
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A program of early works at the Joyce Theater shows a different, more experimental side of the choreographer.
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New ballets at American Ballet Theatre, the return of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the tap artist Dormeshia, and more.
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Despite an impressive roster, including Manuel Liñán’s “Viva!,” this year’s edition, the 20th, represents a radically streamlined version of the festival.
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Opera houses and theaters in European cities are offering to help fleeing or stranded ballet dancers, even as many are still stuck in Ukraine.
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The New York-based choreographer, who was working on a new ballet for the Bolshoi, said he doubted he would return to Russia to work “if Putin is still president.”
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It has taken Miami City Ballet six years to get the Alexei Ratmansky production — the biggest and most expensive in the company’s history — off the ground.
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“I was thinking about Balanchine a lot,” said Roberts, Ailey’s choreographer in residence, who is making his first work for New York City Ballet.
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The spring-summer season is to include groups from abroad, as well as performances the Paul Taylor company, Dormeshia and others.
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Thomas Forster, promoted to principal dancer during the pandemic, makes his New York debut in “Giselle” as the company returns to Lincoln Center.
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The pandemic was disastrous for tango. But milongas are thriving around the city now, capped by the return of Queer Tango Weekend.
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New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre return to Lincoln Center, the Joyce hosts Ragamala Dance and Caleb Teicher, and more.
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The season features 18 companies, including some, like Malpaso from Cuba, whose shows were canceled last year.
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A major figure in 20th-century dance, she was acclaimed for her directness and emotional naturalness onstage, especially in the title role of “Giselle.”
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Major companies return with outdoor performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center, and more.
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One of the busiest choreographers in ballet is back in the studio, thanks to bubble protocols. “For what I do, and for the language I use, the stage is needed,” Ratmansky said.
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Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
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Mr. Copes, along with his partner María Nieves Rego, helped take tango out of the social club and make it an international craze. He died of complications of Covid-19.
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Marina Harss writes about Michelle Dorrance, a tap innovator working with the American Ballet Theatre who wants to bring a little noise to ballet.
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Buck and Boogz are idealists who want to bring dance to new audiences. Their stage show, “Love Heals All Wounds,” takes on contemporary social ills.
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The musical puppetry of Mr. Twist’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” returning to HERE for a three-month run, blurs the line between eye and ear.
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The two big New York-based ballet companies perform at Lincoln Center, and Dance Theatre of Harlem returns.
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Not too long ago, Robert Fairchild played a young god — Apollo — at New York City Ballet. Now, just two months after retiring from the company to try his luck in musical theater, he find…
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Springing from the New York avant-garde scene of the 70s, Jones has spent 40 years exploring narratives from Abraham Lincoln to Aids in dance. Now he’s turned to the work of WG Sebald – …
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For years, the ballet world has been overwhelmingly white, but Copeland’s well-deserved promotion will inspire legions of young people who feel excludedAfter much conjecture and a barrage …
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Ask any young female ballet dancer what role she’d most like to dance one day, and the answer is almost always the same: Juliet. “Swan Lake” may be the Mount Everest of the profession,…
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The dancer discusses the one-man show “Brodsky/Baryshnikov,” which layers poems by his late friend, the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.
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A Museum of Modern Art retrospective highlights 18 films featuring dance numbers by Jack Cole, a performance coach to Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.
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For years, the ballet world has been overwhelmingly white; Copeland’s entirely deserved promotion will inspire legions of young people who feel excludedAfter much conjecture and a barrage …
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