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A Nut to Squirrel Away
Anastasia Barsukova. Photo: Igor SiggulAround the year-end holidays, we tend to settle into traditions and habits, and dance's one uncrackable tradition is The Nutcracker. The big two, at least through...
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Dance/performance:Leonid Sarafanov/Mikhailovsky Ballet, The Flames of ParisFinding new treasures in the elegant, lithe Sarafanov, who performed in much of the Mikhailovsky's rep, including the...
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Ailey—A Different Kind of Revelation
ODETTA. Photo: Steve WilsonIf there's one person within the Ailey company who represents its soul, it might be Matthew Rushing, who has been with the troupe for 22 years and is now rehearsal director...
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Elkins—Playful and Deadly Serious
Alexander Dones in Mo(or)town/Redux. Photo: Christopher DugganDoug Elkins' program at the Joyce this week shows two sides of his artistic sensibility—the playful, lighthearted goofball in Hapless...
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Royal Danish Ballet and the Joys of Bournonville
Ida Praetorius and Andreas Kaas in Flower Festival in Genzano. Photo: Yi-Chun WuThere is simply nothing like the choreography of August Bournonville. With so much amazing ballet in the city, it is...
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NYCB—Drawing Strength from Balanchine
Tyler Angle and Maria Kowrowski in Symphony in C. Photo: Paul KolnikThe last couple of months have brought to New York some of the world's great ballet companies, including the Royal Danish Ballet, the...
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Justin Peck's Rodeo
Rodeo. Photo: Paul KolnikThese days, a New York City Ballet premiere by Justin Peck is big news, and Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (sans the editor's nightmare of diacriticals) certainly adds to his...
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Kehinde Wiley—A New Republic
Shantavia Beale II, 2012. Photo: Jason WycheThere are many levels in appreciating Kehinde Wiley's work, the subject of an overview at the Brooklyn Museum, in a show subtitled The New Republic, through...
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Marth Graham Dance Company Finds a Groove
Misty Copeland & Lloyd Knight, At Summer's Full. Photo: Brigid PierceMartha Graham Dance Company is celebrating its 89th year with a two-week run at the Joyce, with the theme Shape&Design....
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Dance Notebook—Evidence and Romeo & Juliet
Annique Roberts in The Subtle One. Photo: Ayodele CaselEvidence at the Joyce, Feb 24, 2015A great distinction about Ronald Brown's 2014 dance, The Subtle One, is its jazz score by Jason Moran, played...
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New Museum's 2015 Triennial; Wave and Particle at Feldman
Komar & Melamid, Super Objects: Super Comfort for Super People, 1977Eva Kotatkova, Not How People Move But What Moves Them, 2013Photo: Susan YungThe New Museum's triennial, entitled Surround...
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Finding a Common Language with Uncommon Dancers
Hyltin, Mearns, Melnick, Mitchell, and some viewers. Photo: Ian DouglasThe New York dance ecosystem is big. It contains several distinct groups that usually maintain a safe distance from one another;...
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Cunningham, Merci
Photo: Patrick AndreLongtime Cunningham steward Robert Swinston brought his new company to perform at the Joyce this week. Compagnie CNDC d'Angers, resident company at the Angers Centre National de...
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Taylor, Bright and Dark
Michael Apuzzo in Sea Lark. Photo: Whitney BrowneWith Paul Taylor, you never know which side of him will come through in a new work—pensive, elegiac, romantic, dark, crazy, or joyful, to name a few....
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Taylor—Shifts Subtle and Tectonic
Cloven Kingdom, clockwise from left: Michaels Trusnovec, Apuzzo, and Novak, and George Smallwood. Photo: Paul B. GoodeThe revolution in the inaugural season of Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance isn't...
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Petronio's Bloodlines, Part 1
Gino Grenek, Davalois Fearon, Nicholas Sciscione in Rainforest. Photo: Yi-Chun WuThe sea change of remaining current while preserving legacies continues full-strength in modern dance. The latest, and...
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An American in Paris, and Ballet on Broadway
Robert Fairchild & Leanne Cope. Photo: Angela SterlingBroadway has a new pair of ballet-bred stars: Robert Fairchild (Jerry) and Leanne Cope (Lise) in An American in Paris, opening today at the...
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Sculpture, Having a Chelsea Moment
James Siena, Just Read the Instructions. 2013, cherry wood. @ 48 x 69 x 60". Photo: Susan YungChelsea/Meatpacking is abuzz with the impending opening of the new Whitney this week, and some warmer...
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The New Whitney Flings Open its Doors
Gansevoort St. Photo: Karin JobstTouring the new Whitney, I thought about how Hurricane Sandy has inadvertently seeped into our collective thought processes about how to live in this city on a...
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Brown + Judd: In Plain Site
Figure Eight. Photo: Susan Yung Standing beside an artwork comprising a stack of bricks, Jamie Scott began the signature thumb gestures that begin Trisha Brown's solo, Accumulation (1974), to the...
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