• Charles Reinhart, 94, Dies; Steered Modern Dance Into the Mainstream
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    As the director of the American Dance Festival, he oversaw the growth of diverse dance traditions, both in the United States and abroad.
  • At A.B.T., Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Tests 4 Ballerinas’ Versatility
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    In American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.
  • ‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place Emma Warren, author...
  • Watch the Skies to Wet Leg: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    A Swedish alien-invasion sci-fi mystery is given an AI-assisted English-language makeover, and the cheeky Isle of Wight rockers are back with their long-awaited second album Watch the Skies Out now With the return of all things Y2K in...
  • The Joys of K-Swing, Korean Swing Dancing, Come to New York
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Swing and Lindy Hop, dance forms created by Black Americans in the 1920s and ’30s, are flowering in Korea. New York will get a taste in a mini festival.
  • Gameshows, Cliff Richard and Stalin’s most hated play: the British culture sent behind the iron curtain
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    A thaw in relations during the Cold War led to some surprising collaborations between the two nations, involving everyone from Laurence Olivier and Rudolf Nureyev to Gilbert and George. As relations ice over again, what can we learn from...
  • No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Queen Elizabeth Hall, London New York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts Is this show genius or self-satisfied nonsense? Is it a dadaist...
  • Blackhaine: And Now I Know What Love Is review – avant garde dance that grabs hold of your senses
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Diecast, part of Manchester international festival The convulsing figures in Tom Heyes’ choreography, paired with intense sound and a guttural MC, are caught in a mesmerising struggle for human connection Thick smoke fills the room,...
  • Carla Maxwell, Keeper of the José Limón Flame, Dies at 79
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Her stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham’s, after their founders died.
  • Valery Panov obituary
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release The virtuoso ballet dancer Valery Panov, who has died aged 87, became a cause célèbre in 1972 when, with his second...
  • Sandra Neels, Eminent in Modern Dance for 60 Years, Dies at 85
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    She was a leading dancer for Merce Cunningham, a prolific choreographer and an admired teacher.
  • At Jacob’s Pillow, a High-Tech Theater Rises From the Ashes
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The Doris Duke Theater, which burned down in 2020, has been rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology.
  • Cover Her / Scenes from Under Milk Wood reviews – music for an unsettlingly vivid torture scene
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ / ★★★☆☆ Metronome / Rich Mix, London New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade brought a 3rd-century teenage martyr and the chattering rhythms of Dylan Thomas’s poetry to life Small...
  • ‘They feel cleansed, they cry … some really don’t like it!’ The 12-hour psychedelic theatre-rave Trance
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed Naked performers covered in paint roll around...
  • As Avignon Festival Turns to Dance, It Trips Up Some Onlookers
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The festival opener “Nôt,” from Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drew both boos and applause. Elsewhere, for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the spectacle was kept to the stage.
  • Headliners… Creating a True Competition Experience Fueled by Passion and Focused on Education
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    In 1989, CEO Shari Tomasiello and her mother created Headliners with a simple mission: that it would be an educationally based and goal-oriented competition, providing a fun and encouraging environment that’s inclusive of dancers of...
  • ‘Pastoral’ Review: Sampling Beethoven at Bard
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways.
  • Seven days, seven docos: Indigenous documentaries to watch this Naidoc Week – and most are free
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    From an ‘electrically powerful’ look at the final chapter of Adam Goodes’ AFL career to a must-see portrait of Gurrumul, along with Australia’s ‘greatest protest movie’ Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email There are many things to...
  • From Jurassic World Rebirth to Kae Tempest: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    There’s another dino crisis as the cold-blooded megafranchise roars on, and the rapper-poet returns with a hugely personal new album Jurassic World Rebirth Out now Forget Chris Pratt and the friendly velociraptors: this reboot of the...
  • Annie Stainer obituary
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Dancer and mime artist best known for her eponymous solo trilogy who also performed with David Bowie on film and stage The mime, clown and dancer Annie Stainer, who has died aged 79 of pneumonia, was best known for her solo work in the...
  • A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Aviva Studios, Manchester Riven in two by grief – with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body – lead character George takes a finely danced journey back toward life’s flow in Jonathan...
  • ‘A Single Man,’ a Classic Gay Novel, Becomes a Ballet
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Artists including the musician John Grant have collaborated to find feelings beyond the words of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 book. Occasionally, they succeed.
  • Diamonds and Dust review – Dita Von Teese and Faye Tozer’s saddle-sore wild west burlesque
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Emerald theatre, London A regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes Somewhere in the noughties, Dita Von Teese was...
  • Over and Over (and Over Again) review – behold the human disco ball!
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Sadler’s Wells East, London Taking rests when required, Candoco’s integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment Choreographer Dan Daw and the dancers from Candoco are celebrating and politicising the dancefloor,...
  • Dave Scott, Hip-Hop Choreographer, Is Dead at 52
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    A former basketball standout with no formal dance training, he came to provide moves for rappers like Bow Wow and dance-battle films like “You Got Served.”
  • Review: Jealousy Sets a Dance in Motion at American Ballet Theater
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Christopher Wheeldon’s lengthy “The Winter’s Tale,” a ballet based on the Shakespeare play, is filled with bad behavior but also love and forgiveness.
  • Jordan Roth, a Broadway Big Shot, Is Now Reinventing Himself
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Jordan Roth owned five Broadway theaters and produced a string of hits. Now he’s pivoting to performance.
  • How to Audition for an NBA Dance Team, According to the Experts
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    In a crowded basketball stadium, Julia Si smiles and holds a large cardboard check as two women on either wide of her smile and celebrate. The post How to Audition for an NBA Dance Team, According to the Experts appeared first on Dance Spirit .
  • The best theatre to stream this month: Stereophonic’s suite of addictive songs
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and ‘Queen’ Lear It’s billed as a play not a musical but Stereophonic, the US hit now in London , has some of the best new songs played on a West End...
  • In Ashton’s ‘Sylvia,’ Ballerinas Get to Be Like Wonder Woman
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Hunting bows in hand, a new generation of dancers takes on the multifaceted role at American Ballet Theater.
  • Arlene Phillips: ‘My biggest disappointment? Being let go from Strictly’
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    The choreographer on a treasured biscuit tin, the Biba dress she splashed out on and a late-night police chase Born in Lancashire, Arlene Phillips, 82, created the dance group Hot Gossip in the 1970s. She went on to become a...
  • From F1 to Evita: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Brad Pitt goes racing in the Top Gun: Maverick director’s latest, while Rachel Zegler makes her West End debut as Eva Perón M3gan 2.0 Out now Hitting the sweet spot between camp value and genuine entertainment that’s often surprisingly...
  • The Royal Ballet’s Amelia Townsend Taps Into Madness
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Against a stark black background and in a spotlight, Amelia Townsend poses as the Mad Hatter in a red coat with a spiky red wig and stark makeup. Royal Ballet first artist Amelia Townsend steps into some percussive new shoes this month as the tap-dancing Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon’s fantastical Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, performed by The Royal Ballet...
  • Amie Donald Has the Moves as the Killer Robot in ‘M3gan 2.0’
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The sunny 15-year-old dancer-turned-actress is about as far as you can get from the role she’s best known for: a deadly A.I. doll.
  • In the Flow: Aidan Carberry’s Choreographic Mindset
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    A photograph from below of a male dancer moving outside. In the background is a blue sky, tree, and building roof. To Aidan Carberry, choreographing is not just his livelihood, but a game to be played and a puzzle to be solved. Growing up in Los Angeles, Carberry trained at Debbie Allen School of Dance before continuing at the Los Angeles County High...
  • Valery Panov, Ballet Star Who Fought to Leave the U.S.S.R., Dies at 87
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
  • All the right moves: the London premiere of Gala de Danza – in pictures
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    The international dance, music and art festival takes place at the Central Hall Westminster in London Continue reading...
  • Pam Tanowitz’s Dance ‘Pastoral’ Weaves Beethoven and More
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    Tanowitz’s new dance, made with the painter Sarah Crowner and the composer Caroline Shaw, premieres at the Fisher Center at Bard College.
  • Edinburgh festival 2025: kicks and tricks in this summer’s dance and circus shows
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots The Quebec company We All Fall Down got good word-of-mouth at last year’s fringe with their show Papillon. This year...
  • Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet review – a razor-sharp reboot of the Who’s rock opera
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
    Sadler’s Wells, London Pete Townshend’s tragic story of teenage angst returns to the stage in a visceral dance production full of the original’s swagger and bravado The Quadrophenia era might be 60 years old, but some things about being...
  • Global Arts Festival Taking Shape Inside Gowanus Power Station
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The first Powerhouse: International will feature works from South Africa’s William Kentridge, Brazil’s Carolina Bianchi — and 10,000, $30 tickets.
  • American Ballet Theater: Highlights From Its Summer Season
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    The Russian ballerina Olga Smirnova lit up the start of the company’s six-week summer season. She wasn’t alone.
  • The Curious Proposal to Fund New Hampshire’s Arts Council With $1
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    New Hampshire residents pushed back, but lawmakers still plan to decimate the group, which gives grants to theaters and museums.
  • The ‘Accidental Archivist’ of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
    For 50 years, Norton Owen has connected the past and present at the influential summer festival in the Berkshires.
  • Bharatanatyam Dancer and Choreographer Mythili Prakash Dances for the Experience of Surrender
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    I’ve never known a version of myself without dance. I was born and raised in the immersive environment of a dance school for bharatanatyam (a form of Indian classical dance) that my parents founded in Los Angeles before I was born. My...
  • Tilly Evans-Krueger on Broadway, Choreography, and Working With Sadie Sink
    Thursday, May 22, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    This season, performer and choreographer Tilly Evans-Krueger is pulling double duty on Broadway. Most nights, while she performs the role of Ace in The Outsiders, her choreography is being performed down the street by the likes of...
  • Eileen Kim Is Living by Leaps of Faith
    Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    A female dancer en pointe posing with her legs crossed and arms positioned next to her face At 16, Eileen Kim faced a life-changing decision: Stay home to finish high school in Chicago or move to Washington D.C. to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. After spending the summer at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in...
  • My Life as a Cruise Ship Dancer
    Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Imagine traveling to beautiful destinations, making lifelong friends from all over the world, and performing high-energy shows for packed audiences. Working on a ship, it’s all part of a regular day in the office. As a production dancer...
  • Natalie Sterling Is Dancing Into Our Hearts via the Trader Joe’s Aisle
    Thursday, May 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    Natalie Sterling in a dance pose. Have you ever had the urge to whip out a turn sequence in a grocery store? Or leap through an empty cereal aisle with abandon? 20-year-old Natalie Sterling feels that way too. A Trader Joe’s team member, she’s built a social media...
  • Allie Goodbun Brings the Magic of the Moulin Rouge to Dancers Everywhere
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from Dance Spirit
    What does it take to move across the world, dance in Paris at the Moulin Rouge, become a content creator, and start a small business? Allie Goodbun can tell you, and if you follow her on social media, she probably already has.  The...
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