‘At the first one, we had DJs in the foyer and people were jumping in to battle with the dancers. We took out seats to make more standing room and the noise was crazy’ I was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, performing my piece...
This week, we saw the "SYTYCD" top 8 take on a Broadway-themed challenge—and got some hints of a showmance in the making. The post “SYTYCD” Week 6 Recap: Broadway and a Budding Showmance appeared first on Dance Spirit .
Under the banner “American Legacies,” the Martha Graham Dance Company dusted off a classic, “Rodeo,” premiered a companion piece and welcomed FKA twigs for a guest solo at City Center.
He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite … This year’s Super Bowl was watched by more than...
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Shechter’s young dancers thrill in his hellish vision of England. Elsewhere, emerging choreographers from Brno to Birmingham showcase short works Under a smoky spotlight a...
B-Girl Raygun knows breaking’s ‘rawness’ will be lost in Paris, but the Australian community is ready for the sport to be legitimised It had never happened before, and it may never happen again. At the final of the Breaking Oceania...
A girl kidnapped by criminals turns out to be less innocent than she seems in a new horror flick, while the queen of stadium pop releases a new double album Abigail Out now Very loosely based on the 1936 horror Dracula’s Daughter, this...
Seth Collier burst onto the international dance film scene in 2022 when he won the Inspired Dance Film Festival at just 17 years old. His runner-up? None other than Emmy Award–winning choreographer Derek Hough. Now, Collier is ready to...
Two dancers from the Russian company were set to perform at a benefit for a prestigious competition for young dancers, but they were sidelined after protests by pro-Ukrainian activists.
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Hofesh Shechter’s young company are an international bunch but their slo-mo curves and sudden shocks deliver some startling home truths There’s an irony, of course, in a piece about English identity that’s...
Watching Eric Best navigate the sensuous curves of Stanton Welch’s Tapestry, during Houston Ballet’s Jubilee of Dance [in December 2023], the dancer’s flow and exactitude merged into a seamless whole. His generous port de bras caressed...
Welcome back from a two-week hiatus to Season 18 of “So You Think You Can Dance.” Did you miss us? Our past two Monday nights weren’t nearly as eventful without the chance to watch our faves compete to be America’s Favorite Dancer....
New York City Ballet will present a mix of old and new works, including premieres by Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Caili Quan, and introduce fewer intermissions.
Sadler’s Wells, London The revered Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny kick off this year’s celebration of creative ageing, in a triple bill shared by Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke Malou Airaudo celebrated her 76th birthday the other...
Sam Taylor-Johnson brings us her Amy Winehouse biopic, and the cracking Belfast police drama returns for a second series Back to Black Out now Sam Taylor-Johnson teams up with Matt Greenhalgh, who penned Joy Division biopic Control, for...
The company performed its first New York City Center season under the direction of Robert Garland in a program including George Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.”
The Coronet theatre, London Tension between the organic, human-made and the digital permeates Chieh-hua Hsieh’s show as performer Ting-Ting Chao becomes an incredible vibrating energy force When you sit down in a theatre and there are...
Sadler’s Wells, London Works from veteran dancers Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke challenge perceptions of age, with performances full of spirit and maturity Watching a dance is about both what you perceive...
The choreographer Dianne McIntyre presents “In the Same Tongue,” a dance she calls “an artistic history of myself,” at the new Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater.
The Houston dance community is as big and sprawling as the city itself. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., is recognized as more ethnically diverse than most cities of similar size. Its dance scene reflects that size and...
“We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.
They squeeze them, throw them and tip buckets of them over each other. We meet the Taiwanese creator of a riveting experimental dance piece exploring desire that got rave reviews at Edinburgh ‘How to choose tomatoes?” asks the voiceover,...
Lilian Baylis studio, Sadler’s Wells, London Full of dancey japes, games and satisfyingly tactile characters, BalletLorent have created an enjoyably gentle adaptation of Margery Williams’ classic story British audiences might not be as...
Royal Opera House, London The Royal Ballet’s long-running and rather cumbersome Swan Lake is elevated by the dancers’ artistry, while a fine Kenneth MacMillan triple bill deserves more performances The status of Swan Lake has changed....
Dev Patel directs and stars in a John Wick-style action thriller, and Kate Winslet goes full dictator in a wickedly funny new drama Io Capitano Out now Italian auteur Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated latest sees two Senegalese teenagers...
When Christina Clark saw her first Nutcracker performance at age 5, she didn’t immediately aspire to the roles of Sugarplum Fairy or Dewdrop—instead, she was fixated on the dozens of children in the cast. “I was determined to...
Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small Robert Louis Stevenson’s ever-compelling “strange case” becomes a...
Sadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Johan Inger’s cool take on Bizet’s tragic heroine is given its UK premiere by English National Ballet, while LA’s Yorke Dance Project celebrates three California dance pioneers...
Andrew Scott digs into his devious side in a Patricia Highsmith TV adaptation, while the megastar delivers a thigh-slapping hoedown with Cowboy Carter Mother s’ Instinct Out now This ripe 1950s-set melodrama stars Jessica Chastain and...
Choreographer Kenrick Sandy and composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante’s acclaimed troupe are back with a pulsating new piece, inspired by grime, jungle and carnival Sunday afternoon in Tower Hamlets, east London, and the room is full of...
You might remember Anthony Madu from a video that went viral in June 2020. Shared to millions on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) by celebrities like Viola Davis and Cynthia Erivo, the video captured an 11-year-old Madu dancing...
Sadler’s Wells, London Given its UK premiere by English National Ballet, Johan Inger’s new version of the Bizet story cuts out cliche and embraces the bleakness – albeit at the expense of some passion Who is Carmen? A free-spirited...
We’ve officially made it past the audition round on this season of “So You Think You Can Dance,” but that doesn’t mean that the hard part is over. The 35 dancers who made it through auditions now had to face the true test: the...
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Rafael Bonachela’s beautiful choreography and Paula Levis’ striking costumes stand out in pieces ranging from a gentle voyage to stark electro intensity Twenty years ago, Rafael Bonachela was a...
Last night was the final round of solo auditions on “So You Think You Can Dance,” and it’s safe to say the competition was fierce. After all, who doesn’t want to be America’s Favorite Dancer? But before we head on to the next round of...
Amber Tacy, a personal trainer and the founder of Dancers Who Lift, an online strength training and nutrition program geared toward dancers, first experienced plantar fasciitis when she was in college. “I remember my feet screaming at 8...