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Stack-Up Choreography: Talley Beatty Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Credit Photo: Paul Kolnik studio@paulkolnik.com nyc 212-362-7778

Ailey Goes on Hunting for Stronger Repertory

Ailey's new artistic director, Robert Battle, is going here, there, everywhere in response to the company’s perpetual need to identify a repertory worthy of its dancers.
By Robert Gottlieb
Layla and Majnun.

Dying for Art in ‘The Red Shoes’; Dying for Love in ‘Layla and Majnun’

As if to demonstrate the contrast between tremendous talent and tremendous lack of same, last week also brought us 'The Red Shoes' at City Center, and a remarkable new work by Mark Morris at Lincoln Center.
By Robert Gottlieb
Christine Shevchenko and Calvin Royal III in Songs of Bukovina.

American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Season: Mixed Repertory With Mixed Results

The recent ABT fall season at the Koch was short and mostly sweet, with one masterpiece—Frederick Ashton’s 'Symphonic Variations'.
By Robert Gottlieb
Dorrance Dance's Myelination.

Long Performances at ‘Fall for Dance’; A Short Career Farewelled at City Ballet

By Robert Gottlieb
The world premiere of Troy Schumacher's The Wind Still Brings at New York City Ballet's Fall Gala 2017.

To Dress or Not to Dress

By Robert Gottlieb
Kara Chan front and center in Twyla Tharp's The Raggedy Dances.

Twyla Tharp Is Back With a New Dance Set to Dylan’s Love Songs

By Robert Gottlieb
Ashley Shaw in her starring role as Victoria Page in Bourne's The Red Shoes.

In Ballet About a Ballet, ‘The Red Shoes’ Fails to Deliver Impeccable Dancing

By Emily Bicks
Diamonds with Alyona Kovalyova and Jacopo Tissi.

‘Jewels’: Three Ballets, Three Companies and a Glorious Debut

By Robert Gottlieb
Scene from Aurora's Wedding.

Tchaikovsky Carries the Ball for ABT This Spring Season

By Robert Gottlieb
Cirkus Cirkör: Limits at BAM.

Martha, Merce and Some Others Launch the Summer Season

By Robert Gottlieb
School of American Ballet 2017 Workshop performance of Scotch Symphony, with Mira Nadon with Davide Riccardo (in black) and Gilbert Bolden (in kilt).

The Next Generation of City Ballet Stars Are on the Way

By Robert Gottlieb
Stella Abrera and David Hallberg in Whipped Cream.

ABT This Season So Far: In With the New, Out With the Old

By Robert Gottlieb
Sterling Hyltin Odessa (World Premiere) Spring Gala, Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

City Ballet’s Spring Season Confirms: Alexei Ratmansky Is a Master Choreographer

By Robert Gottlieb
The Joffrey Ballet's Christine Rocas and Rory Hohenstein in Romeo & Juliet.

The Joffrey Returns to New York With a Provincial ‘Romeo & Juliet’

By Robert Gottlieb
Michael Novak in The Open Door.

Together for the First Time, Paul Taylor, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham

By Robert Gottlieb
Revelations.

‘Revelations’—For Better or Worse—Remains Alvin Ailey’s Only Masterpiece

By Robert Gottlieb
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