There’s been dance everywhere these past weeks, and not only at the City Center, where Paul Taylor was shutting down, and at B.A.M., where Mark Morris was moving in.
Susan Marshall presented a 20th-anniversary season at the Dance Theater Workshop that confirmed her reputation as an inventive and persuasive dance maker. Her new extended Read More
“You gotta get a gimmick,” Stephen Sondheim instructed us in Gypsy, and the guys behind Kings of the Dance were listening. (They include the producer, Sergei Danilian; the “Artistic Associates,” Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel; and the Orange County Performing Arts Center, to which Stiefel is connected and where the Kings premiered a week Read More
“You gotta get a gimmick,” Stephen Sondheim instructed us in Gypsy, and the guys behind Kings of the Dance were listening. (They include the producer, Sergei Danilian; the “Artistic Associates,” Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel; and the Orange County Performing Arts Center, to which Stiefel is connected and where the Kings premiered a week before Read More
This fall, A.B.T. decided to divide its repertory into four set programs, each with a label; you couldn’t cherry-pick your way through the season. Your choices: the Innovative Worksprogram,the Master Works program, the Contemporary Works program and the Family Friendly matinees. Let’s deal with the contemporary works first.
Two imported pieces, both horrible, were Read More
What is Twyla Tharp telling us with her current spur-of-the-moment season at the Joyce? That her eye is on the sparrow (her small touring company) as well as on the blimp (her huge Broadway hit, Movin’ Out )? Twyla Tharp Dance has been touring for months-most recently and highly successfully in London-with more or less Read More
For two weeks this season, ballet came back to life in New York as something you could love without hesitation or reservation. American Ballet Theatre, after floundering so long in search of plausible repertory, found it where they should have been looking all this time-in Frederick Ashton. By staging so beautifully two of his greatest Read More
