Friday, January 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The Cuban company’s program at the Joyce Theater includes three U.S. premieres.Friday, January 24, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Southbank Centre, London Dewey Dell bring resonant energy to reinvent one of the most frequently revisited pieces in dance history The backspinning b-boy spiders are a revelation. And the larger than life silkworm oozing along the...Friday, January 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances scheduled for this season.Thursday, January 23, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl’s murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero.Thursday, January 23, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Even after the whirlwind of Nutcracker season and finals dies down, summer break can feel very far away. Still, because applications for intensives, internships, and jobs open in winter, now is the time to start planning for...Thursday, January 23, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Looking for something to do in New York? Bop for a good cause at Bowery Ballroom, meet some 150 dog breeds at the Javits Center, or celebrate the year of the snake in Queens.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Widely considered America’s first prima ballerina, Tallchief is being celebrated by New York City Ballet, where she was a Balanchine muse, in her centennial year.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The ballerina is leaving the company in February after 25 years. She will dance the lead in “Firebird” in her final program.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from NYT > Dance
With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Choreographer David Dorfman, a professor at Connecticut College, says students who attend summer dance festival intensives return to campus with something in common: They’ve gone through an artistic growth spurt. “You won’t realize what...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Barbican, London Little happens in this wordless show about an Irish navvy who lives a lonely existence and yearns for home but it is oddly affecting One egg cup on the shelf, one tin mug, one knife, a game of Solitaire. Such are the...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Dance Spirit
January 17–19, college dance teams from around the country gathered in Orlando, Florida, to attend the Universal Dance Association 2025 College National Championships. Teams competed in three divisions (D1A, D1, and Open, based on the...Monday, January 20, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Striving to widen the audience of dance, she brought vitality to Broadway musicals like “Swing!” as well as ballets and Hollywood films.Monday, January 20, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The pianist, director and playwright of Farinelli and the King, which starred her husband Mark Rylance, is remembered by the Globe’s former artistic director Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71 On the first...Sunday, January 19, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Coliseum; the Place, London In her final lead principal role for English National Ballet, Erina Takahashi breaks hearts as a despairing Giselle. Elsewhere, dreams and misdemeanours in the departure lounge… A new dance year begins with a...Saturday, January 18, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in the much-hyped biopic, and Netflix’s smash thriller returns for another season of moreish political skulduggery * * * Continue reading...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Founding administrator of Opera North who went on to become a leading light of the Arts Council, the Southbank Centre and a number of dance companies Graham Marchant, who has died aged 79 of respiratory problems complicated by...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Fans of college dance teams are eagerly anticipating the rematch in Division 1A between the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University at this year’s UDA Nationals. Last year, U of M took first in Division 1A Pom and OSU took...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Royal Albert Hall, London A clown’s funeral procession is the pretext for some of the most skilled performers in the business to swoop, float and fly through the air There’s a procession passing through the Royal Albert Hall. It’s a...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Dance Spirit
If you’re a dancer who uses social media, you’ve almost certainly seen videos counting down to the 2025 “dance Super Bowl.” For those of you who aren’t familiar, these videos are referring to UDA Nationals, a competition marking the end...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday featured thrilling works by Angie Pittman (“Black Life Chord Changes”) and Kyle Marshall (“Joan”).Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Highlights so far of the 2025 contemporary dance festival, spread across New York City, are Symara Sarai and Leslie Cuyjet’s outstanding dances.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Miguel Gutierrez’s “Super Nothing” at New York Live Arts asks how dance can confront the steady stream of life’s troubles.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London Youthful ambition and vision always charge the atmosphere with optimism at this festival of future dance talent For 35 years The Place has been offering up an abundance of brand new choreography at its annual Resolution...Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
East Bank, Stratford, London Built in Italian red brick by acclaimed Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, Sadler’s Wells’s vibrant new sister theatre provides six dance studios, elegant auditorium – and a big welcome to all There’s an idea...Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
A clammy revenge thriller set within the fitness industry; the story of modern dance’s pioneering women; and a quest for an enigmatic wartime heroine Emma Healey Hutchinson Heinemann , £16.99, pp400 To order S weat , Wild Grace or In...Saturday, January 11, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new album Maria Out now Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, the same writer-director team behind the Diana, Princess...Friday, January 10, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri ring in the New Year in their physical and introspective “Many Happy Returns.”Friday, January 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Performer and choreographer who fused ballet with South African contemporary dance styles More than a profession, dance was a calling and an innate need for the South African performer and choreographer Dada Masilo. “I’m very miserable...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Music, dance, theatre and even magic on offer, as Dynamo plans ‘Bradford’s equivalent of Olympic opening ceremony’ ‘The scale is blowing my mind’: Bradford ready to shift perceptions as city of culture As Bradford prepares to kick off...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from NYT > Dance
At the Joyce Theater, Ragamala Dance presents “Children of Dharma,” an elegant production that lacks dramatic pop.Thursday, January 9, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, announced her 10-year struggle on Instagram. She tested out her new hearing aids in “The Nutcracker.”Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
This year sees the city celebrate its rich, diverse creativity. Magician Dynamo, AKA Steven Frayne, and director Kirsty Housley discuss collaborating to shine a light on the arts of their home city – and offer hints on what to expect...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Where is the dance field headed next? The dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies on Dance Magazine‘s annual “25 to Watch” list offer heartening, imaginative, exciting possible answers to that question. Whether or not...Monday, January 6, 2025 from NYT > Dance
651 Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André Zachery’s “Against Gravity.”Monday, January 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Welsh dancer turned down her first chance to appear on Strictly – then illness and injury twice took her off TV. She talks about her new tour, her best friend Carlos Gu and her ‘completely new upper body’ Amy Dowden’s motto is...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from NYT > Dance
A South African dancer and choreographer, she was known as a fearless creative force who brought African dance styles to traditional pieces like “Swan Lake.”Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The theatre director on the best novel she’s read in a long time, Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, exercising in the dark, and a Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant The theatre director Rebecca Frecknall grew up in Cambridgeshire and...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year American auteurs return Continue reading...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The classic 1922 exsanguination enthusiast gets a creepy 2024 makeover, and there’s a new supercop in town in Channel 4’s crime drama Nosferatu Out now Director Robert Eggers has been carving out a niche for himself in the shadows for...Friday, January 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells’ new purpose-built space is a reflection of the booming popularity of the art form in the capital. But is all this success representative of the country as a whole? And if not, why not? It’s time for some good news. The...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The dancer and his husband on meeting at a beach bar in Spain, the stresses of working together, and who is the teenager in the relationship Born in Plymouth in 1948, Wayne Sleep is a dancer and media personality. At 12, he won...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
One of Denmark’s greatest ballerinas, she toured widely — in London, Moscow and New York — and played a version of herself in a Disney TV production.Monday, December 30, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Most dancers who participate in competitions and conventions attend with a dance studio. But each year, a small group of soloists opt to go for it as independents, without a studio affiliation. There are plenty of benefits to this...Friday, December 27, 2024 from Dance Spirit
When Crystal Nicholls was a dancer in The Lion King on London’s West End, she noticed herself feeling more irritable and unhappy during the fall and winter months. Simultaneously, she was dancing more than usual because of...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Did your family Thanksgiving celebration include a trio of grandmas dancing to Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”? A solo act of a vampire rocking out to Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”? If not, you may want to get your hands on a...Friday, December 13, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Karmen Moore had always dreamed of joining the Radio City Rockettes. But while completing her degree in dance performance at Southern Methodist University in 2023, she mainly focused on auditioning for contemporary and modern companies....