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54ReviewsBoy Blue in ‘Cycles’: An ode to hip hop in rhythm and groove
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.March 28, 2025. Boy Blue, the hip hop company from London, generously graced the...
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158InterviewsHenning Rübsam: Championing the human cultural heritage of dance
Henning Rübsam is artistic director of SENSEDANCE, on faculty at Juilliard (where he introduced a dance history program for the public) and...
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586InterviewsMoving forward: Celia Rowlson-Hall talks ‘SISSY’
Celia Rowlson-Hall will present her version of the story of Sisyphus, SISSY, where the mythological Greek king pushes a massive boulder up...
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305ReviewsAtlanta-based musical ‘Parade’ comes home
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA.April 1, 2025. Tony-Award winning musical, Parade, has arrived in Atlanta, the city where the true story unfolded. Leo...
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160ReviewsInspiration and collaboration: Ballet RI’s ‘Ballet Meets the Beatles’
The Woodman Family and Community Performance Center, Providence, RI.March 23, 2025. That electricity in the air when collaboration is humming, creative minds...
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87EventsBallet Hispánico celebrates 150 years of Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ at New York City Center
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latine/x/Hispanic dance organization and recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, presents Gustavo Ramírez...
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158ReviewsPointeworks brings thoughtful, strong, intentional dance to NYC
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.March 21, 2025. Pointeworks, the San Diego-based ballet company, brought its second season to the Ailey Citigroup...
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170ReviewsTwyla Tharp Dance in The Diamond Jubilee Tour: All facets of art coming together
New York City Center, New York, NY.March 16, 2025. Twyla Tharp is a force. At 83, she’s been making dances for 60...
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305Top StoriesNorwegian Cruise Line debuts two exclusive productions
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is debuting two new productions aboard its new, stunning ship, Norwegian Aqua, this week with an exclusive media...
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405ReviewsAccessibility and artistry in action: Ballet Rhode Island’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and 2025 ‘Made on Hope’
Ballet RI Blackbox Theater, Providence, RI.February 23, 2025. “I like contemporary dance, but when I see it I don’t really know what’s...
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736Feature ArticlesWomen in dance keeping dance close: Anabella Lenzu and Danielle Marie Fusco
Dance is a calling for many, but the life of a dancer can be short lived as a result of injury, burnout,...
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272Feature ArticlesDana Caspersen: Working with possibility
Watch a video of Dana Caspersen dancing. She makes millisecond shifts between performance images – pedestrian, quixotic and utopian. Just when you...
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273Feature ArticlesBig questions, universal themes, disparate dances: IMGE Dance’s ‘(no)man’
Speaking with dancemaker Ishita Mili feels like an encounter with a kaleidoscope of qualities: joy and the sadness of past experience, erudition...
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384Feature ArticlesNY International Dance Festival celebrates Celtic culture in ‘Soirée Celtique’
This March, NY International Dance Festival will present Soirée Celtique, an event featuring performers from across the world in celebration of Celtic...
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324Feature ArticlesABT’s Herman Cornejo reimagines Nijinsky’s lost ballet
The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) celebrates the opening of its Spring/Summer 2025 Season with lauded dancer Herman Cornejo and Grupo Cadabra in Anima Animal. Completing a...
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268Feature ArticlesLife with Ann Reinking: Stories by Deb McWaters, Part 9
Dance Informa continues its series on stories about Ann Reinking, written by colleague and friend Debra McWaters. Chapter 12: The Tony Awards...
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364ReviewsDowntown dance made accessible: Inclined Dance Project’s ‘inQUAD’ 2024
JACK, Brooklyn, NY (viewed virtually).December 6 and 7, 2024. Concert dance has arguably grappled with a “niche” dynamic: various forces driving it...
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418ReviewsAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater in new works for 2024-25 season
New York City Center, New York, NY.December 17, 2024. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater settled into their annual winter month-long season at...
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271ReviewsNaturalism in magical realism: Ballet RI’s 2024 ‘The Nutcracker’
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI.December 21, 2024, 1pm. “Acting is behaving realistically under imaginary circumstances”: an adage I still remember from a...
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394ReviewsKyle Abraham’s ‘Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful’: A tapestry of humanity
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY.December 14, 2024. Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful…Kyle Abraham poses this request in his latest work, presented...
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476ReviewsAmericana in motion: Martha Graham Dance Company through Celebrity Series of Boston
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, MA.November 23, 2024. Some call Martha Graham the “mother of modern dance.” Scholars and dance enthusiasts may...
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402Feature ArticlesThe complexities of concert dance on the ‘small screen’: Thoughts on changes to ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
Hot dog and cola in hand, seasoned dance critic Theodore Bale entered a packed stadium – full of people there not to...
