Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the American dancer and artistic director Judith...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Theatre503, London The heightened body language of a tempestuous couple breaks out into choreographed scenes in this play that reaches far beyond its restricted space It doesn’t look like much: the stage is tiny, the set is a single...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Born in St Petersburg in 1985, Shklyarov joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2003 and became its principal dancer – the highest-ranking position in a ballet company – in 2011. During his 20-year career, Shklyarov starred in productions of...Monday, November 18, 2024 from NYT > Dance
“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later.Monday, November 18, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre says dancer was taking painkillers for an injury and fell from fifth floor The acclaimed Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov has died aged 39. Shklyarov died after falling from the fifth floor of a...Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
After root-and-branch reworkings of Giselle and Swan Lake, the celebrated Irish choreographer is back with Nobodaddy, a trip ‘through the bottomless pit’ ‘I keep making pieces that I think maybe no one outside of Ireland will like,” says...Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells; Peacock theatre; Linbury theatre, London The Belgian choreographer’s tempestuous new piece mirrors the recent controversy surrounding her. Plus, the latest from two pioneering troupes It’s exhausting being a pioneer. You...Saturday, November 16, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Sydney icon danced in the jazz bars of Paris, painted murals in Karachi and mixed with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Groucho Marx Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Eileen Kramer, the trailblazing creative who was part of...Saturday, November 16, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
An all-star return to ancient Rome, and eclectic new sounds from the No Doubt singer Gladiator II Out now It’s tough to get lightning to strike twice, and the first Gladiator film is one of the jewels in director Ridley Scott’s crown....Friday, November 15, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The choreographer and visual artist brings performance and paintings to a meteor shower of an exhibition at MoMA PS1.Friday, November 15, 2024 from NYT > Dance
This Ralph Lemon work, part of a MoMA PS1 exhibition, is an experience of sound as much as dance. His collaborators can lead an audience to ecstasy.Friday, November 15, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Royal Opera House, London Wayne McGregor’s take on the novelist’s complex tale is ambitious, beautiful and, though wanting in some parts, redeemed by incredible performances It makes complete sense that Wayne McGregor would be attracted...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from NYT > Dance
She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.Thursday, November 14, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Battersea Arts Centre, London Ocean Chillingworth’s show depicts a brutal fight that turns into something altogether messier This much we know from the title: there will be blood. We’re given plastic ponchos to wear, if we want, in case...Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
International festival’s director says Scottish Ballet production is part of lineup that will challenge perspectives A new gender- and age-fluid ballet tracing the life of Mary, Queen of Scots is to take centre stage at next year’s...Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Vicky Holt Takamine, a renowned teacher of hula dance and a champion for Indigenous culture, will receive a cash award of more than $450,000.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
A co-production between the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada, MaddAddam opens at the Royal Opera House, London Continue reading...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Bocca, the former star dancer who retired from American Ballet Theater in 2006, will be artistic director of the company at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.Monday, November 11, 2024 from NYT > Dance
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the highlight of Dana Gingras’s “Frontera” may well be the lighting design.Monday, November 11, 2024 from NYT > Dance
She was always a goddess of dance — even before her triumph in “Cry.” The Ailey star turned artistic director stretched like there was no tomorrow.Sunday, November 10, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The Taylor company returns to Lincoln Center with four premieres and a new resident choreographer: Robert Battle, the former director of Alvin Ailey.Sunday, November 10, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Jamison joined Alvin Ailey’s dance company in 1965 and performed there for 15 years, premiering solo Cry in 1971 Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American...Sunday, November 10, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Pairs of dancers exactly in time with each other act out Anthony Hamilton’s hypnotic contemporary dance algorithm It looks a bit like Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation put through a contemporary dance filter,...Sunday, November 10, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Three decades after he first adapted Tchaikovsky’s classic, the choreographer’s reimagining of Swan Lake with an all-male corps is back for an anniversary tour. At rehearsals with the new cast, he and his original team tell the story of...Sunday, November 10, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Norwich Theatre Royal With its tropical backdrop and Latin-infused reworking of Tchaikovsky’s score, Acosta Danza’s touring show, if not always coherent, flies by As a dancer, Carlos Acosta had a generosity in the way he welcomed...Saturday, November 9, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The marmalade-obsessed ursidae goes back to his roots, and we begin the final series of Hilary Mantel’s Mark Rylance-starring Tudor drama Bird Out now One of the UK’s greatest film-makers, Andrea Arnold, returns. Her latest is is a...Friday, November 8, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Linbury theatre, London Sophie Laplane’s If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November’s The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis Sophie Laplane’s new ballet, If at First, is more...Friday, November 8, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Lyceum theatre, Sheffield Beautifully staged and danced with bonneted and bewhiskered brio, Dickens’s classic dose of festive escapism is the gift that keeps on giving Directed by Christopher Gable and choreographed by Massimo Moricone,...Thursday, November 7, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Carolyn Adams, the Paul Taylor dancer turned educator, is being honored at the company’s gala with a new solo by Robert Battle, her former student.Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London Hannah Ekholm and Faye Stoeser’s double bill pairs precise poses with a compelling electronic score Club culture has left its stamp on contemporary dance in recent years – the popularity of Sharon Eyal is a prime...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Las Vegas’ latest attraction has audiences on their feet—to bust a move. The immersive Discoshow, directed by Steven Hoggett and with choreography by Yasmine Lee, celebrates disco’s revolutionary beginnings in 1970s New York City...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from Dance Spirit
When interventional spine doctor and Kuchipudi dancer Pranamya Suri was doing her medical residency, she had less time to dance than usual. When she did get the chance to practice, she noticed a persistent pain developing around and...Monday, November 4, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Netta Yerushalmy’s “Movement” at N.Y.U. Skirball comes from a patchwork of sources: TikTok, television, marching band practice and more.Monday, November 4, 2024 from NYT > Dance
In certain circles, the name Ralph — like Merce or Madonna — lights up a room. The choreographer and visual artist is the subject of a major exhibition of his art and performances.Friday, November 1, 2024 from NYT > Dance
American Ballet Theater unveils “Crime and Punishment,” an ambitious, but listless new production by Helen Pickett and James Bonas.Thursday, October 31, 2024 from NYT > Dance
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bill T. Jones’s “Still/Here” returns, free of the AIDS-era context in which it premiered.Thursday, October 31, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Amy Watson will helm the storied company as it grapples with the sudden departure of its previous artistic director and accusations of abuse at its school.Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from NYT > Dance
“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Dance Spirit
The path to a professional dance career was anything but linear for Caroline T. Dartey. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Dartey was originally an accomplished rhythmic gymnast, competing both nationally (she was the Swiss champion in her...Monday, October 28, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The Paul Taylor Dance Company joins a very short list of dance troupes with substantial real estate in one of the world’s most expensive markets.Friday, October 25, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The choreographer Nadia Beugré, who brought her “Quartiers Libres Revisited” to New York Live Arts, likes to keep her audience close. And involved.Thursday, October 24, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Eleni Loving unspools movement like a magic trick. Dancing Twyla Tharp’s percussive The Fugue (1970/2024) with Gibney Company, she captures the work’s airy groundedness with precise musicality and a deadpan delivery. In...Friday, October 11, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Despite all the hours young dancers spend in the studio, for many coming out of high school, the idea of dance as an academic discipline—an intellectual as much as a physical pursuit—can be unfamiliar, even mysterious. What do college...Friday, October 4, 2024 from Dance Spirit
At age 12, Jakob Karr stood mesmerized in his first jazz dance class as the teacher demonstrated the mechanics of a ball change and kick. He tentatively mimicked the footing before letting his long, gangly leg fly above his head. “Oh! I...Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Her career soaring at Miami City Ballet, Taylor Naturkas has ridden on the wings of fabled creatures for her latest successes. After Naturkas performed the titular role in the Balanchine/Robbins Firebird last February, artistic...Monday, September 23, 2024 from Dance Spirit
When news broke earlier this month that ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince had passed away at age 29, the dance world reacted with shock, confusion, and profound sadness. She was so young; she had already accomplished so much...Friday, September 13, 2024 from Dance Spirit
When viewers of the Netflix documentary America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders last saw Victoria Kalina, she had decided to hang up her blue-and-white uniform and move on from the famous NFL dance team. Her four-year tenure...Thursday, September 5, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Quintessential to Chicago tap lore is Jumaane Taylor’s Supreme Love, a tour de force that pushes the best of the best to the limit. When Andrew Carr was in the original 2015 cast, he was only 11. Always ahead of the curve, Carr has been...