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Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Sadler’s Wells, London Christopher Wheeldon’s international hit returns home as thrilling as ever. Plus: three contrasting works by the National Ballet of Canada It’s 13 years since Christopher Wheeldon’s...Saturday, October 5, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
After a long-distance relationship, dancers Piran Scott and Naiara were finally paired in a duet – and experienced a profound connection Find more stories from The moment I knew series here I was a young dancer based in Queensland when...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...Friday, October 4, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Your culture and entertainment questions answered by New York Times journalists and experts.Friday, October 4, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Birmingham Hippodrome Employing five female choreographers in one production is a bold move but this sweeping celebration of strong women does not cohere There’s no doubting the good intentions of anyone involved in this ballet. BRB’s...Thursday, October 3, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells, London A triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite’s work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of Siphesihle November It was inevitable really, that...Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company brought a mixed bill to the Joyce Theater, including a Paul Taylor classic and a dance by the great Rennie Harris.Monday, September 30, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The choreographers Johan Inger and William Forsythe will open the Paris Opera Ballet season with three pieces.Monday, September 30, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Botis Seva, a rising British choreographer who mixes hip-hop and contemporary dance, brings his Olivier Award-winning “BLKDOG” to New York.Monday, September 30, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Royal Opera House, London Vivid designs, frog and fish footmen and a comedy dame bring good energy to the Royal Ballet’s Alice, with beautiful dancing from the leads This ballet is at its best when someone is at risk of having their head...Sunday, September 29, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The choreographer talks about overnight fame, ‘extreme ambition’ and her goofy/serious duet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada Emma Portner wishes I didn’t need to ask her about being hired to choreograph a West End musical aged...Sunday, September 29, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Birmingham Hippodrome This production of Frederick Ashton’s version of the bucolic love story allows the beauty and humour to flow naturally from the choreography As the rain comes down and the nights draw in, Birmingham Royal Ballet is...Saturday, September 28, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.Saturday, September 28, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Rashmi Becker, who runs classes for blind people, explains how the comedian may be practising for the BBC show Chris McCausland’s Strictly debut featured twists, lifts, slides and quick-footed steps, none of which are unusual for the BBC...Saturday, September 28, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck Megalopolis Out now Francis Ford Coppola’s incredible back catalogue (The Godfather! Apocalypse Now!) means a new...Thursday, September 26, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The company brought three New York premieres to the Joyce Theater.Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The dancer, choreographer and vocalist, who has died aged 60, was sometimes dismissed as eye candy – but her remarkable stagecraft took Prince to the next level The name Catherine Glover might not mean a lot in isolation, but when you...Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir warmly narrates her own story of renewal after feeling her personal and professional life was over Contemporary dance about the menopause? A dancer’s career derailed by injury? When the Bleeding...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...Tuesday, September 24, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
As the Royal Ballet’s newly minted principal, the dancer is on a mission to challenge the industry’s underlying racism from the inside. He discusses his first steps – and the role of his dreams I used to be really apologetic, like, I’m...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...Monday, September 23, 2024 from NYT > Dance
New York City Ballet opened its fall season with classics by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, along with a company premiere by Lar Lubovitch.Monday, September 23, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Alongside dance partner Dianne Buswell, 47-year-old’s joyous moves offer antidote to show’s recent controversies Watching the blind comedian Chris McCausland ’s cha-cha-cha on Strictly, complete with lifts, slides, jumps and swinging his...Monday, September 23, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Original cast members look back at George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s staging of the 19th-century ballet. “Everyone knows when something is good,” one said.Monday, September 23, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London The Body of People Jazz Theatre Company presents a rich programme, including a celebration of the great trumpeter It’s rare to see pure jazz dance on stage in the UK, even in its natural home of musical theatre, where...Sunday, September 22, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Dancers said De Keersmaeker, a “godmother of contemporary dance,” ran her company in a tyrannical style that endangered staff members’ health.Sunday, September 22, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Qudus Onikeku’s dancers jerk, bustle and glide through a puzzling tale of rebirth, while Kate Prince’s ZooNation returns to Wonderland in sensational style The QDance...Saturday, September 21, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Empyre fire festival celebrates an ancient art that’s both performance and a meditative experience Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Flames twirl against the dark: gothic and tribal, pagan and punk, all at once. The Empyre fire...Saturday, September 21, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Demi Moore defies ageing in a juicy body horror, while Paula Rego and Goya share their nightmares in Bath The Substance Out now Demi Moore snags a juicy role as an aerobics star whose twinkle is fading, and who – upon finding herself...Friday, September 20, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Marikiscrycrycry examines fresh territory in “Goner,” but his ideas remain theatrically inert.Thursday, September 19, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The 10-day festival at City Center opened with a program of works by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck and Andrea Miller.Thursday, September 19, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a ‘beacon of hope’ for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist Michaela Mabinty DePrince, whose death aged 29 was announced on Friday, has been recognised for “shifting the whole ballet...Wednesday, September 18, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
‘Using rocks from my garden, I built myself a plinth, scattered flour over the floor and turned the place into a desolate hinterland, like the surface of the moon. The result felt like a direct reflection of my emotions’ Even before the...Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Elaine DePrince, 77, died of unrelated illness less than 24 hours after trailblazing ballerina’s death aged 29 The adoptive mother of ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince , who died suddenly at age 29 last week, died less than 24 hours...Monday, September 16, 2024 from NYT > Dance
In an impoverished orphanage in Sierra Leone, she longed to dance ballet. After being adopted by American parents, her improbable dream came true.Monday, September 16, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Arts & Leisure’s fall preview connects readers with the season’s noteworthy cultural works. And there are many.Monday, September 16, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The plucky London City Ballet collapsed in 1996. Now it’s getting a second life with a new mission: to stage little-known, small-scale works.Monday, September 16, 2024 from NYT > Dance
National Ballet of Ukraine dancers will perform Alexei Ratmansky’s “Wartime Elegy” in New York. Touring is “like taking a break,” one said, “because we can finally sleep.”Saturday, September 14, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?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...Monday, September 9, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The season brings new works by Kyle Abraham and Helen Pickett, as well as revivals of City Ballet’s “Coppélia” and Bill T. Jones’s “Still/Here.”Monday, September 9, 2024 from NYT > Dance
“People came from everywhere to see her shows,” an admirer said — including, on at least one occasion, the ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov.Friday, September 6, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The choreographer Sharon Eyal turns the Drill Hall of the Armory into a club at which her dancers appear at intervals, behaving oddly.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...Wednesday, September 4, 2024 from NYT > Dance
An immersive article spotlights choreographers who are carrying forward the legacy of Black dance forms that flourished 100 years ago.Thursday, August 29, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Ballet de Lorraine’s Tristan Ihne has been dancing professionally for nearly two decades. But on July 26, he gave a performance unlike any he’d done before: Along with about 200 other dancers, he danced atop a golden platform filled with...Wednesday, August 28, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Featured in two of the past year’s most viral music videos—Jungle’s “Back On 74” and Ariana Grande’s “yes, and?”—Will West transitions seamlessly, sometimes instantly, from style to style. He can accelerate from total stillness to a full...Thursday, August 22, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Serious circus training hasn’t historically had much of a place in higher education. Sure, some universities have student troupes and aerial classes, but these extracurriculars don’t qualify for academic credit. Performers who have...Friday, August 16, 2024 from Dance Spirit
In 2018, Vsevolod Maievskyi achieved his dream of joining the Mariinsky Ballet. For four years, Maievskyi was onstage night after night, dancing everything from demanding corps parts to Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, a role in which...Wednesday, August 14, 2024 from Dance Spirit
After choreographing the highest-grossing stadium tour of all time (you’ve never heard of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, have you?), the always-busy Mandy Moore remains as in-demand as ever. A few months ago, Moore took her creative...