Reemergence
In the first half of tonight’s double bill by Scottish Ballet, Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang whacks her drums with such force, she breaks her drumstick.
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A Tokyo Gala
The National Ballet of Japan hosted their annual Ballet Asteras recently, inviting Japanese dancers from around the globe for a special gala of dance. As usual, it also provided an opportunity to preview a wide range of choreography.
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Look up, New York!
Citizen Arts International co-founder Natalie Rine hopes that the organization’s inaugural event, the Citizen Arts International Festival, will make New Yorkers to look up.
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When Suki Schorer—since 1998, the occupant of the School of American Ballet (SAB)’s Brown Foundation Senior Faculty Chair—approaches the barre to show a movement detail to a student, or strides to the side of the stage during a rehearsal to get a better perspective on a passage of choreography, she...
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Centre of Gravity
Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world,” and whether it is something to “resist, surrender to, suspend or redefine,” it is a necessary condition of us.
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Phoenix Rising
The traditional striped kabuki curtain of black, persimmon and green hangs tattered and faded. It’s our first hint of destruction.
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LA Ballet at the Bowl
Who doesn’t love a little Gershwin on a hot, humid night in the Cahuenga Pass, i.e., the Hollywood Bowl?
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Cinderella Reimagined
This winter, the UK premiere of “Cinderella” is being brought to vivid life in a new production by Northern Ballet.
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High Notes
Honoring three choreographic greats of the twentieth century, the triple bill for K-Ballet Tokyo’s 2026 Selections hit only the high notes.
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The National Ballet of Japan hosted their annual Ballet Asteras recently, inviting Japanese dancers from around the globe for a special gala of dance. As usual, it also provided an...
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Suki Schorer, Milonguera
When Suki Schorer—since 1998, the occupant of the School of American Ballet (SAB)’s Brown Foundation Senior Faculty Chair—approaches the barre to show a movement detail to a student, or strides to the side of the stage during a rehearsal to get a better perspective on a passage of choreography, she is taking steps on behalf of others.
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Look up, New York!
Citizen Arts International co-founder Natalie Rine hopes that the organization’s inaugural event, the Citizen Arts International Festival, will make New Yorkers to look up.
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Centre of Gravity
Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world,” and whether it is something to “resist, surrender to, suspend or redefine,” it is a necessary condition of us.
Continue Reading
Phoenix Rising
The traditional striped kabuki curtain of black, persimmon and green hangs tattered and faded. It’s our first hint of destruction.
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On the final weekend of August, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presented Anna Sperber’s Bessie award-winning dance “Bow Echo” during the opening day of its 2026 Annual Festival.
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Harvest Time
There is site-specific dance—think Trisha Brown’s 1970 groundbreaking work, “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building”—and then there’s Sarah Gordon Butler’s “Hay Rake Ballet.”
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Secret Gardens
This summer, hidden within the red brick warehouses and graffitied construction panels of industrial East Williamsburg, Brooklyn lay a secret garden.
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Love Letter to Mother Nature
Ballet X gave a performance of “The Four Seasons Reimagined” on June 11, 2026, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in a premiere week that began at its home base in Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann.
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Liz Lerman’s Legacy
Sprinkled throughout Liz Lerman’s most recent book, Shape and Momentum, are references to witches. They are our companions and guides, and they come bearing spells and poetry culled from Lerman’s 10-year choreographic project, “Wicked Bodies.”
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Scottish Ballet’s artistic director Christopher Hampson CBE has long been a champion of storytelling from a completely unique perspective. So too, with These Violent Delights: the first feature-length film from...
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A Ballet Festival
The theme driving Misty Copeland’s curation of the Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival was “to center Black, Brown, and Queer artists.”
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Solidarity
My first two shows at this year’s Dance Base as part of the Edinburgh Fringe show the consummate taste of artistic director Tony Mills. Two brilliant young companies from the Basque Country perform very different, but no less thrilling, work.
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White Space
When dance happens in non-traditional spaces, it can change the way it is seen and experienced. As Leonard Cohen said about the cracks in everything, “that’s where the light gets in.”
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Classical Style
“Ballet: the New Classic,” brainchild of fashion photographer Yumiko Inoue and K-Ballet Tokyo associate artist, Shohei Horiuchi, combines haute couture with innovative dance. Like sculpture in motion, it’s their third collaboration since creative director Inoue and producer and choreographer Horiuchi first realized their stylish vision in 2022.
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What should ballet look like? From the eight pieces that compose the first program of Misty Copeland’s curation for the Joyce Theater’s annual Ballet Festival, this much is clear: there’s...
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