Monday, January 24, 2022 from NYT > Dance
A crew of corps de ballet members, six women and one man, head into the delayed winter season with a new rank: soloist.Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Coliseum, London The plot’s still a problem but the dancers give their all in the outgoing ENB artistic director’s bold attempt to bring an old classic in from the cold One of Tamara Rojo ’s early acts as artistic director of English...Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Whether it’s Guillermo del Toro’s noirish carnival, a gothic synthpop duo or the return of British art masterpiece, our critics have your plans for the week covered Nightmare Alley Out now If you had to pick the best person to remake a...Friday, January 21, 2022 from Dance Spirit
Some of our favorite dancers have the flexibility of a thousand rubber bands, and we won’t deny that some of their gorgeous extensions have us so deep in awe that they’ve easily become #DancerGoals. But despite knowing the importance of...Friday, January 21, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Elizabeth B. Yntema’s Dance Data Project has been using a steady drumbeat of numbers to push the ballet world to action on gender equality.Thursday, January 20, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.Thursday, January 20, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Dozens of people who studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts during a period of more than 40 years say they were sexually, emotionally or physically abused there as minors.Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s incoming artistic director, has half updated the 19th-century work for English National Ballet.Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from Dance Spirit
It’s safe to say that choreographer Tessandra Chavez is a living dance legend. Not only has she offered her knowledge as a teacher at countless dance studios and conventions around the world, but her work has graced the stages...Wednesday, January 19, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Coliseum, London Even if the drama disappoints in parts, the music and dancing in Tamara Rojo’s brave, inventive take on the 19th-century, will-she-won’t-she love story is a delight It’s common enough in theatre and opera to preserve a...Tuesday, January 18, 2022 from Dance Spirit
Dear Dance Colleagues, DanceTeacher+ is now live—and you’re invited to join us! Whether you’re a dance teacher or a studio owner, you know that investing in your own professional development is key to inspiring and advancing the next...Tuesday, January 18, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
With references ranging from drug users to the Japanese avant garde, Tom Heyes has transcended a dull life in the north-west through explosive choreography and streams of consciousness First emerging as a surrealist reaction to the...Monday, January 17, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Despite the pandemic disruptions, this festival of contemporary dance from Asia went on, nearly as planned, with four North American premieres.Monday, January 17, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Rambert dance company and writer Steven Knight team up for an ‘inspiring and uplifting’ touring production The upcoming sixth series of blockbuster BBC drama Peaky Blinders will be the last but a new dance-theatre production written by...Monday, January 17, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
As a child, Tina Leverton dreamed of being a ballet dancer, but her parents couldn’t afford the lessons. Learning to dance decades later has been joyful – and transformed her life Tina Leverton was 62 when she bought her first pair of...Sunday, January 16, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
The sheer beauty of the dancing girls swept all before them Alan Road reported on the return visit to Britain of the ‘graceful dancers of Korea’, having been a big hit in 1972 (‘East Side Story: Korea Brings on the Dancing Girls’, 4...Saturday, January 15, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London This dazzling show recreates the choreographer’s work through the pure geometry of balls, hoops and clubs As niches go, a work that combines a tribute to the great American choreographer Merce...Saturday, January 15, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Whether it’s nostalgic screen terror or Mark Rylance’s stage return, our critics have your plans for the week covered Scream Out now New year, new Scream. Back after a gap of 11 years (if you don’t count the so-so TV show), this...Friday, January 14, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Oona Doherty, a rising star in Europe, brings a Belfast-inspired piece to New York. “This is about kinetic trauma,” she says. “This is about you, as well.”Friday, January 14, 2022 from NYT > Dance
The Northern Irish choreographer Oona Doherty looks at despair through an ethereal lens at the Irish Arts Center.Friday, January 14, 2022 from Dance Spirit
It’s one thing to put “earn a convention scholarship” or “master fouettés” on your list of resolutions for 2022—and those are certainly worthy accomplishments to work toward. But if aiming for such major wins feels a tad ambitious, try...Thursday, January 13, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.Thursday, January 13, 2022 from NYT > Dance
After a two-year hiatus, live programming resumes, including evenings by the violinist Johnny Gandelsman and the choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy.Thursday, January 13, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
For 30 years, pioneering company Corali has subverted audience expectations. Now it’s helping queer-dance duo Thick & Tight with a work about poet Edith Sitwell We’ve all got our teas?” checks Daniel Hay-Gordon, looking around the...Thursday, January 13, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
A centuries-old outdoor folklore ceremony featuring singing, dancing, costumes and crop-blessings, the wassail is having a pandemic-era revival – with witchy reinventions On a January night in the tiny Herefordshire village of...Thursday, January 13, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Tamara Rojo has announced that she is leaving English National Ballet after 10 years as artistic director. Revisit the productions she starred in and presented during her reign Continue reading...Thursday, January 13, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells, London Combining juggling and contemporary dance, this is a complex and accomplished homage to the late choreographer There have been many tributes to the great choreographer Merce Cunningham, whose centenary was...Thursday, January 13, 2022 from NYT > Dance
The choreographer continues his research into African American worship and the Black Shakers in “Power” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from Dance Spirit
Picture it: You’re 12 years old, and your mom just dropped you off at your latest dance convention (one of six this year, including Nationals). The ballroom you’ll be dancing in is roughly 65,000 square feet—yet somehow it’s filled near...Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from NYT > Dance
From in-person and virtual performances to exhibitions and tours, the city offers plenty of options for honoring the civil rights leader this year.Wednesday, January 12, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
The dancer, choreographer and artistic director has shown great ambition and had an astonishing impact at the company Right now, Tamara Rojo is putting the finishing touches to the first ballet she has created for English National Ballet...Tuesday, January 11, 2022 from Dance Spirit
Emmy Cheung Photo courtesy of YoungArts Emmy Cheung (Modern/Contemporary) Emmy Cheung is a senior in high school from Irvine, California. She started dancing at the age of three at West Coast School of the Arts under the direction of...Tuesday, January 11, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Rojo, who has given the English National Ballet a new allure, succeeds Helgi Tomasson as just the fifth director to lead the San Francisco company.Tuesday, January 11, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
The Spanish dancer will step down later this year, becoming artistic director at San Francisco Ballet, where her husband is a principal Tamara Rojo, the artistic director of English National Ballet and one of the biggest names in the...Monday, January 10, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Before, during and now after the conservatorship that oversaw her life for 13 years, the pop star has used dance to assert her power and connect with her audience.Monday, January 10, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Strictly Live UK arena shows starring Rose Ayling-Ellis, who is deaf, will have a BSL interpreter projected beside stage She was the first deaf contestant and winner of Strictly Come Dancing, and now Rose Ayling-Ellis is set to make...Monday, January 10, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Formed in 1992, Gandini Juggling return to stages this month with a new production, Life, presented at London International Mime festival . Revisit their past shows, snapped by Tristram Kenton Continue reading...Sunday, January 9, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Jamila Wignot’s documentary about choreographer Alvin Ailey has touching testimonies and a look at his secret private life Jamila Wignot’s documentary is a tribute to the work of the African American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey,...Sunday, January 9, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Jamila Wignot’s subtle documentary explores the influences, legacy – and private life – of the American dance pioneer “Alvin Ailey is black and universal,” says the actor Cicely Tyson as she presents him with a lifetime achievement...Sunday, January 9, 2022 from Dance | The Guardian
Leading dancers and directors say they find the classic costume both physically and artistically restrictive The ballerina’s tutu remains a traditional object of desire for many young girls: an enduring emblem of diaphanous femininity,...Friday, January 7, 2022 from NYT > Dance
The company will delay the start of its season by nine days, the latest performing arts group to cancel or postpone programming as the virus surges.Thursday, January 6, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.Tuesday, January 4, 2022 from NYT > Dance
“Better Call Saul” returns, Cecily Strong stars in a one-woman show, and Faith Ringgold gets an overdue retrospective.Tuesday, January 4, 2022 from NYT > Dance
Aaron, Sondheim, Dole and Didion. But the loss of Colin Powell from the virus spoke most directly to the moment the world is in.Monday, January 3, 2022 from Dance Spirit
Congratulations to Omarion Burke, our December Cover Model Search Editors’ Choice video winner and 2022 CMS semi-finalist! Watch his solo below, and be sure to enter the Cover Model Search here. Omarion Burke is Your December Cover...Thursday, December 30, 2021 from NYT > Dance
These are the pictures that defined an unpredictable year across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.Thursday, December 30, 2021 from NYT > Dance
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.Monday, December 27, 2021 from Dance Spirit
Chicago-based dancer, actor, singer and writer Meredith Aleigha Wells dreamed of a career in the arts from a young age, and landed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to pursue that dream. It was there, however, that Wells (who...Wednesday, December 22, 2021 from Dance Spirit
Happy holidays! If you’re not performing in The Nutcracker, these few weeks off of school and normal dance classes are likely a welcome intermission in the middle of a very busy year. Dance Spirit has compiled a few suggestions for how...Friday, December 17, 2021 from Dance Spirit
When we asked Iyanna Jackson how she’d react if she won this year’s Cover Model Search, she told us to expect a tear or two of joy. Well, we sure hope she’s not crying all over her keyboard right now because we’re super-thrilled to...