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Launched in 2020 after the hashtag #maleballerina went viral, Ballet22 is driven by a mission all the more urgent since the current presidential administration resumed its attacks on the LGBTQ community.
Continue ReadingThe way Margaret Jenkins tells it, Dianne came to her dance company’s studios in 1973, asking to take class. Dianne was then living in a one-bedroom apartment near San Francisco’s Mission District with her scientist husband and three young kids.
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In a context such as the Venice Biennale, where you can easily run into ballet stars across the Arsenale and dance alongside them in workshops, it felt especially apt to pay tribute to a filmmaker who, with extraordinary care, intelligence and unsentimental clarity, brought us so close to the hidden...
Continue ReadingWaiting in the theater, the first unhurried trickle of French composer Erik Satie’s piano variation barely registers amidst the house chatter. Sparse and minimalistic, swelling with silences, the striking keys eventually conjure up a dancer.
Continue Reading“When you visit Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, you realise that this is a place where time does not exist,” writes choreographer Frances Rings in her notes for Terrain, and the resonance with Wayne McGregor’s theme for the 2026 Biennale Danza, Time Does Not Exist, is unmistakable.
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The first edition of the Tanztriennale in Hamburg, back in June, unfolded like an emotional topography: a landscape shaped by care rather than by theme; under the co‑direction of Monica Gillette and Gwen Hsin‑Yi Chang, Tanztriennale operated as a temporary commons: a place where choreography, conversation and community are allowed to influence one another.
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In a context such as the Venice Biennale, where you can easily run into ballet stars across the Arsenale and dance alongside them in workshops, it felt especially apt to pay tribute to a filmmaker who, with extraordinary care, intelligence and unsentimental clarity, brought us so close to the hidden mechanics of dance: Frederick Wiseman.
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Launched in 2020 after the hashtag #maleballerina went viral, Ballet22 is driven by a mission all the more urgent since the current presidential administration resumed its attacks on the LGBTQ community.
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The way Margaret Jenkins tells it, Dianne came to her dance company’s studios in 1973, asking to take class. Dianne was then living in a one-bedroom apartment near San Francisco’s Mission District with her scientist husband and three young kids.
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Waiting in the theater, the first unhurried trickle of French composer Erik Satie’s piano variation barely registers amidst the house chatter. Sparse and minimalistic, swelling with silences, the striking keys...
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“When you visit Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, you realise that this is a place where time does not exist,” writes choreographer Frances Rings in her notes for Terrain, and the resonance with Wayne McGregor’s theme for the 2026 Biennale Danza, Time Does Not Exist, is unmistakable.
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It starts out light and coquettish. George Balanchine’s “Sonatine,” set to the composition by Maurice Ravel of the same name, is undeniably lighthearted, as the dancers—here, Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet—find themselves animated by the music, as they share the stage with a grand piano (and pianist Elena Bonnay at its helm).
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When I say this work from Hofesh Shechter set my thoughts adrift, I don’t mean that the performance failed to capture my attention.
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Goodbyes are often tearful. As Kun-Yang Lin’s Philly-based dance company, KYL/D, gave its final performance at the Mandell Theater this spring, I found myself sobbing uncontrollably. This was it.
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Shen Wei is a master mover between worlds—between East and West, between choreography and painting, between process and product, between the physical and the spiritual, and I could go on.
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Rudolf Nureyev’s “Don Quixote” is a long-running ballet in La Scala’s repertoire, periodically revived and performed on tour.
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Even in stillness, there is energy. When the stage lights up on Cassandra Trenary, the dancer is already quivering, muscles tensed, as if gearing up for a fight. That is precisely what ensues.
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Cell phones and motorcycle headlights illuminated the stage at the Teatro América during a recent performance of the ballet company ProDanza. When the music also failed, audience members joined dancers in singing along, ensuring the show could go on.
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How do we navigate a balance between the collective and the individual? How do we negotiate strength and flexibility? How do we value tradition while embracing innovation?
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“Vibrations” closes the Opéra Garnier’s 2025/26 season with what might be read as a triptych on dance’s future, past, and present.
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Particles or string? Dark matter or light? The National Ballet of Japan offers up a contemporary double-bill of dance, loosely connected by visual metaphors to modern physics.
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When Yvonne Rainer choreographed “Trio A” on herself in 1965, it took six months to work out the four-and-half-minute solo. But for many early audience members, its effect was immediate and electric.
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Nina Ananiashvili was still thrilling audiences as an exceptional ballerina when, in 2004, she got a call from Georgia’s newly elected president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
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City living is not for all of us. For many there is nothing more appealing than that stillness of nature, that sense of suspended time.
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“Flower and Decoy” is stark, darkly poetic dance theater. Combining traditional Japanese aesthetics, supernatural horror and street dance, Tatsuya Hasegawa leads his all-male dance troupe, Dazzle, through an intricate, abstract...
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