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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jamar Roberts' 'A Jam Session For Troubling Times'. Photo courtesy of Emily Kikta Peter Walker.

2020 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Virtual Season: Dance for troubled times

December 2-31, 2020.Accessible through www.alvinailey.org/performances-tickets/virtual-winter-season/watch-now. For over 60 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has presented dance art that uplifts, inspires, educates...

Two dancers, both in wheelchairs; one crawls forward and the other arches her back as she is dragged along the floor. A sunset appears behind them. Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of Kinetic Light. Photo by MANCC/Chris Cameron.

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Kinetic Light’s ‘DESCENT’: Aesthetic harmony, tension and ‘reckless abandon’

December 3-5, 2020.Via University of Minnesota’s Northrop, co-presented by Walker Art Center. Humans began to dance to connect with the natural world...

San Francisco Ballet in Helgi Tomasson's 'The Nutcracker'. Photo by Erik Tomasson.

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San Francisco Ballet’s virtual ‘The Nutcracker’: Returning to joy and connection

November 27-December 31, 2020.Accessible through sfballet.org. Music swells. Rhinestones shine. Glittery snow falls across stagelights. The scent of flowers for the dancers...

David Hallberg in Pam Tanowitz and Jeremy Jacob’s 'David'. Photo by Pam Tanowitz and Jeremy Jacob.

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Ballet moving forward and RISE-ing: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Future Starts Today’

November 23, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. At times, dance has been at the forefront of social change and innovation. At other times, we’ve...

Allison Rebecca Penn in Nozama Dance Collective's 'Becoming an Activist: An Allyship Project'.

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Nozama Dance Collective’s ‘An Allyship Project’: In a tradition of mobilizing body, heart and mind

November 14, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. Dance art has a tradition of outspokenness and direct action when it comes to social and political...

Boston Ballet's Lia Cirio and Viktorina Kapitonova in William Forsythe's 'Playlist (EP)'. Photo by Angela Sterling, courtesy of Boston Ballet.

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‘Forsythe Elements’ in Boston Ballet’s BB@yourhome: Questioning what ballet and performance can be

November 19-29, 2020.Streamed on bostonballet.org through subscription. I remember the first time I saw a William Forsythe work. It was obviously ballet,...

Akram Khan's 'Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter'.

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‘Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter’: An Akram Khan film

November 13, 2020.Available to watch on All4. Extreme Combat: The Dancer and The Fighter documents Akram Khan’s foray into a field that dancers...

Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin's 'YAG: The Movie'.

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An encounter with Batsheva: Ohad Naharin’s ‘YAG: The Movie’

November 21, 2020.Filmed October 2020, at Batsheva’s Varda Studio, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. Presented online. YAG: The Movie, Ohad Naharin’s first...

Sara Mearns of NYCB in Justin Peck's 'Thank You, New York'. Photo by Erin Baiano.

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New York City Ballet’s New Works Festival: The energy of space

October 27-31, 2020. Streaming online, filmed in the Lincoln Center Plaza and other sites in New York City. Lincoln Center: there’s a...

Eric Greengold and Elizabeth Troxler in 'Dancing Through...'. Photo by McKenna C. Poe.

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The courage of committing to concept: ‘Dancing Through…’ from Theatre Dance Vietnam

October 30, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Most of the dance works that truly resonate with me do so because of a strong concept,...

Island Moving Company in 'Out of Ruin'. Photo by Bill Peresta.

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Island Moving Company’s ‘Out of Ruin’ and ‘Emerge’: Art bringing people together again

Cardines Field, Newport, RI; Blithewold Mansion, Bristol, RI.October 2, and October 9, 2020. A special thing about live art is how it...

Tiler Peck, Lil Buck and Brooklyn Mack in Jennifer Weber's 'Petrushka Reimagined'. Photo by Geo Santillan, courtesy of CLI Studios.

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The worlds of ballet, hip hop and tap unite on stage in CLI Studios’ ‘A New Stage’

October 16, 2020.Online on CLI Studios. CLI studios (founded by tWitch and Allison Holker) released its first-ever virtual performance this weekend, starring...

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‘Floodstream’ in the Shawna Shea Film Festival Shorts Fest: Dancing to commemorate

October 10, 2020.On Vimeo via the Shawna Shea Film Festival “Shorts Fest”. Humans have danced to honor those who’ve left us, from...

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The Indo-American Arts Council’s Erasing Borders Dance Festival: Finding unexpected treasures

September 21-27, 2020.Streaming on YouTube. As a dance writer and someone deeply steeped in many different dance sub-communities, I hear about a...

New England Ballet Theatre of Connecticut. Photo by Jeff Holcombe.

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Giving artists a voice, virtually: The 2nd annual ‘Empower One Another’

September 26-28, 2020.Online at onstagedanceco.com. A meaningful thing about the arts is how it can give people a voice, a space to...

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Less is more, especially now: Pizarts’ quarantine dance film ‘Red Between the Lines’

September 17, 2020. Online via The Social Distancing Festival. “Less is more” is an old maxim in art (and in life); humans...

Mignolo Dance. Photo by Carolyn Herring.

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‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Mignolo Dance and The Moving Architects

September 26, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the second act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...

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DANCE NOW’s 25th Anniversary virtual performances: All that art is worth

September 10, 2020.DANCE NOW’s web platform. A lot can happen in 25 years — particularly in the arts; it’s a bit mind...

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 'Leaning into the Unknown' program. Photo courtesy of Ramapo College.

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‘Leaning into the Unknown’: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company presents a collection of quarantine art

September 19, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. Ramapo College’s Berrie Center presented the first act of its livestream broadcasts spotlighting New Jersey-based artists this...

Frances Chung in Benjamin Millepied's 'Dance of Dreams'. Photo courtesy of San Francisco Ballet.

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‘Dance of Dreams’ from San Francisco Ballet and Benjamin Millepied: Art as escape

Streaming on YouTube. What are two main things that people want right now? Freedom of movement and human contact, I’ll say. San...

'And Still You Must Swing'. Photo by Christopher Duggan.

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Jacob’s Pillow 2020 Virtual Summer Festival, Part II: ‘And still you must swing’

August 27, 2020.Streamed on YouTube. The final performance of Jacob’s Pillow’s two-month virtual Summer Festival, a festival that met the moment and...

Dance Theatre of Harlem. Photo by Christopher Duggan.