• From Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere to IT: Welcome to Derry – your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Jeremy Allen White channels the Boss in a hotly tipped new biopic, and Pennywise the clown returns to terrorise unsuspecting children in a spooky horror prequel series Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Out now The Bear’s Jeremy Allen...
  • Let’s Talk About Breast Support in Ballet
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Dr. Stephanie Potreck, shown chest-up, poses for a headshot with a slight angle to her body as she smiles softly at the camera. Wind blows her hair gently, and she wears a long-sleeved black shirt and a silver chain. I started wearing a sports bra under my leotard when I was 12. At first, the extra support helped me feel more secure in my rapidly changing body. But I was the only one at my school wearing one, and the same was true at my first...
  • Review: In ‘Six Quiet Dogs,’ Ordinary Sound Gives Way to Poetry
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Abigail Levine’s new work, at Target Margin Theater, is terrific as a kind of enhanced reading, but lags on the level of choreography.
  • Mark Morris Accused in Lawsuit of Mistreating Black Company Members
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    A former dancer with the company accused Mr. Morris, the prominent choreographer, of discrimination. He denied the claims.
  • Oprah, Gayle King and More Attend Misty Copeland’s Final Performance
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The trailblazing ballerina returned to the stage after five years for one final performance at a gala for American Ballet Theater.
  • Misty Copeland Will Take Her Final Bow
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The famed ballerina retires from her career with the American Ballet Theater after one final performance on Wednesday night.
  • ‘She changed ballet’: Misty Copeland takes her final bow at retirement show
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Copeland, American Ballet Theatre’s first Black female principal dancer, was celebrated with star-studded gala Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday night, showered with golden glitter and bouquets as she...
  • Transform festival: Rinse and Blackmilk review – a double shot of engrossing dance
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Stage@leeds/Stanley & Audrey Burton theatre, Leeds Amrita Hepi measures words and movement as she talks through her artistic journey and Tiran Willemse takes Moon River in a new direction Transform festival’s director Amy Letman...
  • Dance Review: Eiko Otake and Wen Hui’s Bodily Traces of War
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    In “What Is War,” two singular artists, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, grapple with memories of China and Japan in World War II.
  • Catching Up With Hip-Hop Phenom Anaya Jones
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    A headshot of Anaya Jones, a Black dancer with long dark braids in a high ponytail. She wears a bright pink long sleeve shirt and looks into the camera with a close-mouthed smile. At just 16 years old, Anaya Jones has a lot on her plate—and it’s not just her next English paper. In 2024, she was crowned Tremaine Dance Convention’s Freestyler of the Year and took home several first-place trophies at various...
  • Charm La’Donna Is a Hip-Hop Choreographer to Stars Like Kendrick Lamar
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The hip-hop choreographer brings irrepressible enthusiasm to her work for Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé and Dua Lipa.
  • A Dance in a SoHo Loft With the Ghosts Who Haunt It
    Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The choreographer Wally Cardona revisits a David Gordon duet, “Times Four,” performed in the loft in which it was made and remade for today.
  • Dare you enter the splash zone? Wet and wild selkie steals the show at Glasgow’s startling arts festival
    Tuesday, October 21, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Take Me Somewhere tucks audiences up in bed, takes them to a last supper and delights with a paddling-pool comedy-tragedy A nurse puts a steadying hand on my back and guides me to bed. She takes off my shoes, dresses me in soft pyjamas...
  • National Dance Company Wales: Surge review – mythical monsters, soulful swingers and an alien chorus line
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    The Place, London This delightfully unique triple bill spans many worlds with Busby Berkeley-style sci-fi formations, a hazy summery waltz and a wild rampage of Welsh folk dance The sequins are sensational; the dancers pretty special...
  • ‘Larsen C’ Review: Grand, Dark and Inhumanly Cold
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    At the new Powerhouse: International festival in Brooklyn, Christos Papadopoulos debuted an oblique, glacially cool work with seven dancers.
  • Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: We Caliban review – postcolonial take on The Tempest is difficult to pin down
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    York Theatre Royal Jeyasingh’s choreography is well wrought and precise but Caliban’s struggles with servitude and resistance feel adrift amid a sea of ideas Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh originally moved to the UK in the early 1980s...
  • From After the Hunt to the Last Dinner Party: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Guillermo del Toro offers his take on Mary Shelley’s cobbled-together creature, and the baroque rockers follow up their chart-topping debut album After the Hunt Out now Julia Roberts stars in the latest from Challengers director Luca...
  • Gesualdo Passione review – six singers and four dancers deliver a mishmash with a mystical tingle
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Barbican, London Amala Dianor Company and baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants combine for an occasionally exquisite yet oddly dispassionate show The marrying of music and dance is an indefatigable exploration. There are countless ways...
  • Review: At Ballet Theater, Tharp Comes to Push and Conquer
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    American 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.”
  • ‘A collaboration of the senses’: Royal Ballet teams up with blind artist for new show
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Exclusive: using immersive descriptive audio, performance explores how blindness can redefine experience of dance The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that visually impaired members of the audience can...
  • Scrooge gets a hip-hop spin and the RSC does the BFG: 20 of the best UK stage shows this Christmas
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    From musical versions of Pinocchio, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes to a comedy about banana-loving beach-dwellers … dive into our selection box of festive theatre Sadler’s Wells East, London, 26 November to 4 January Choreographer...
  • The Limón Dance Company Tries to Shake Up Its Fusty Image
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined “Emperor Jones.”
  • Fall at City Ballet: Promotions, Debuts and Transcendent Dancing
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The programs were all over the map, but the dancers held the season together. Six were promoted, including India Bradley, the first Black woman to become a soloist.
  • Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic review – a thrilling collision of ecstasy and grief
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Aviva Studios, Manchester Resisting simple titillation, this sprawling four-hour odyssey through often naked rituals has weddings, funerals and eye-popping love potions Factory International’s Aviva Studios was made for work like this....
  • Remembering Mama Africa: struggle of fearless singer Miriam Makeba told in daring dance drama
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Mimi’s Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend’s exile and ascendancy with ‘beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit’ “You speak about Miriam Makeba in South Africa and it’s like speaking...
  • City Ballet Fashion Gala: Iris Van Herpen’s Costumes Dance Too
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Collaborating with the choreographer Jamar Roberts for the New York City Ballet fashion gala, Iris van Herpen created costumes that merged fantasy and form.
  • ‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way It’s an idyllic autumn day in leafy Richmond Park, London, where a grand...
  • When Baryshnikov Wanted a Challenge, Twyla Tharp Delivered
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    American Ballet Theater opens with an all-Tharp program, including “Push Comes to Shove,” the first work she created for the company and its newly defected star, in 1976.
  • A Tyrant for Our Times: Reviving José Limón’s ‘The Emperor Jones’
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Limón’s dance, based on the play by Eugene O’Neill, has long been something of a problem piece. Now, it is being updated to speak to the moment.
  • Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wings to the New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The fund-raiser drew celebrities, rock stars and designers, though its red carpet and dinner was boycotted by the company’s dancers who are fighting for pay increases.
  • From Tron: Ares to Riot Women: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    There’s another sequel to the beloved 1980s sci-fi classic, and Sally Wainwright’s latest about a new rock band formed of middle-aged women Tron: Ares Out now Perhaps the most exciting thing for many about this new Tron film is that it...
  • Review: Paris Opera Ballet Unrolls a Lackluster ‘Red Carpet’
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The esteemed company presents a full-length contemporary work by Hofesh Shechter at New York City Center. Forget about pointe shoes. This is Chanel in socks.
  • At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts Brings Fresh Air to a Fashion Gala
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    New York City Ballet presents a new work of uncanny beauty, with costumes by Iris van Herpen, inspired by nature and technology.
  • ‘I absolutely went for it!’ Michael Flatley on sex, swagger, Riverdance – and tapping his feet 35 times a second
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    The Lord of the Dance was always fanatically driven, practising for 16 hours a day in his teens. His body now bears the damage of that era. But he still wants more. He discusses love, passion, pride and performing for Donald Trump...
  • Gerald Arpino, Minus His Groovy Fourth Dimension
    Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    A festival at the Joyce Theater leaves out the Age of Aquarius work that made this choreographer popular, presenting surprisingly old-fashioned ballet instead.
  • Steps Conservatory Puts Professional Training at the Heart of Its Program
    Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Mindy Jackson, the Steps Conservatory director and a contemporary faculty member at Steps on Broadway in NYC, says, “a versatile dancer is a working dancer.” Rather than being split into commercial-dance and concert-dance tracks, all...
  • What Makes Competition Routines Go Viral Online?
    Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Thomas Russ' headshot. He wears a white t-shirt and cross necklace. Competitive dance routines are all over social media feeds these days. For choreographers, studios, and dancers, this kind of viral fame can be thrilling—and it can help a mainstream audience discover the brilliance of competitive dance....
  • ‘A certain bite’: how Martha Graham pushed dance in dazzling new directions
    Monday, October 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long? A century ago, the dancer Martha Graham began teaching at a...
  • A ballet description so good you can feel it | Brief letters
    Sunday, October 5, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    ‘Rock solid but buttery soft’ | The Far Side on Jane Goodall | Baby boxes | Salford artists | Comedians in Saudi Arabia It is notoriously difficult to use words to describe movement, so thank you to Lyndsey Winship, in her review of...
  • From the BFI London film festival to Taylor Swift: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, October 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    The movie extravaganza his the capital as well as screens nationwide, while the all-conquering Swift brings pop maestro Max Martin back for her new record BFI London film festival 8 to 19 October The annual smorgasbord of cinema returns...
  • Paris Opera Ballet Brings Hofesh Shechter Work to America, Leaving Tutus at Home
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The company will perform the contemporary choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s “Red Carpet” in California and New York.
  • Andrea Peña & Artists: Bogotá review – writhing, sweaty dancefloor revolt is exhausting
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Sadler’s Wells East, London Dance Umbrella festival opens with a bold yet alienating piece inspired by mythology and magical realism It’s as if you’ve turned up at the party when they’re all already too far gone. Dancers strewn across...
  • English National Ballet’s R:Evolution review – a triple whammy of Balanchine, Forsythe and Graham
    Friday, October 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Sadler’s Wells, London In a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson English National Ballet’s new season launches with a quadruple bill...
  • Starbound National Talent Competition Marks 33 Years of Experience With Exciting New Opportunities
    Thursday, October 2, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    As Starbound National Talent Competition celebrates its 33rd season, the team knows what keeps dance families coming back. “We’ve always been one of the leaders in this industry, and through listening to our clients’ feedback and making...
  • The Brooklynettes Expand to China in New Talent Variety Show “CheersNets”
    Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Under brights lights on a basketball court, members of a dance team stand proudly across the court in fierce poses as a man waves a large Nets fan in the middle. The Brooklyn Nets games deliver much more than fast breaks and buzzer-beaters. The Brooklynettes bring just as much fire as the players, turning every game into a show. With punchy, fierce numbers and plenty of sequins, the urban-chic...
  • Jo Na-In on Choreographing “Golden” and “Takedown” for “KPop Demon Hunters”
    Thursday, September 25, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Jo Na-In leans back, hands in her pockets, and juts out one hip as she poses for a portrait. She peers into the camera with her hair up, wearing black pants, a black crop top, a gray vest, and gray arm bands. Netflix’s animated musical movie KPop Demon Hunters has broken all kinds of records, becoming the platform’s most-watched movie ever in only three months. With hundreds of millions of views across the globe, the film’s catchy tunes, epic...
  • How Robbie Blue Choreographed Gap’s Viral KATSEYE “Better in Denim” Campaign
    Monday, September 22, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Robbie Blue, in jeans, a long-sleeved black shirt, and a backwards baseball cap, poses while sitting on a wood stool. He holds one arm and leans in with a serious expression. You’re bound to have seen it by now. With more than 400 million views in just three days, Gap’s “Better in Denim” dance video campaign has taken the internet by storm since it dropped on August 19. Choreographed by breakout talent Robbie...
  • Gerald Arpino Brought ‘Zah!’ to Ballet. How Does His Work Hold Up?
    Monday, September 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The choreographer’s dances were athletic, often sexy, and dealt with contemporary themes. A two-week festival of his work comes to the Joyce Theater.
  • Misty Copeland’s and Tiler Peck’s New Advice Books for the Next Generation
    Tuesday, September 16, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Book cover: An illustrated Misty Copeland sits against a lilac background with the book's title in purple and gold text For young dancers, having a mentor can be a lifesaver. But not every student has access to that one dancer at the studio with the perfect advice for every situation—the kind of wisdom that comes from lived experience. American Ballet...
  • How to Effectively Repurpose a Competition Solo for College Auditions
    Wednesday, September 10, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    A female dancer wearing a blue and white cheer uniform. She smiles and waves poms overhead. College dance auditions often require students to present a short solo. While this solo can be an ideal way for competitive dancers to show their skills, a college audition room isn’t the same environment as a competition stage. How can...
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