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La Vishneva takes on a new role Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva in Frederick Ashton's 1952 "Sylvia"...
Again. And again. And again. Just one memory of Pina Bausch...
The Nature Of The Beast Why Merce Cunningham's decision to disband his company shouldn't come as a surprise...
Four Events at American Ballet Theatre As celebrated in Russia as the Mississippi is in America, the mighty Dnieper River has accreted to itself a history, an atmosphere, and a mythology that reaches out to several arts--just as Mark Twain's masterwork, Huckleberry Finn, for example, is...
Moon Walker Michael Jackson, dancer...
How dances disappear Merce Cunningham surprises the world of dance--yet again....
Wild Thing Kirov guest star Diana Vishneva in ABT's "Swan Lake"...
Swan in a neck brace Lagerfeld designs for ballet, and it isn't pretty...
Dreams, Now and Then George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, created for the New York City Ballet in 1962--with co-collaborators William Shakespeare (libretto) and Felix Mendelssohn (music)--is a perennial enchantment....
Preserving a legacy What the announcement of Merce Cunnningham's plans for his own legacy tell us about his courage and his faith in technology...
Thinking Dance Bemused reflections on two perhaps deliberately puzzling dance performances in New York from Robbinschilds and Sarah Michelson....
Snapshot This week's video: Anna Pavlova dances "The Dying Swan."...
Spoleto: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Benoit-Swan Pouffer, the best name in all of dance....
Rite of Spring "But first a school," Balanchine is said to have replied to Lincoln Kirstein, when the later was urging him to be the lynchpin in forming a ballet company in the States, intuiting that this choreographer--a genius...
Dances to see in New York this month Foot's long short list, plus a short review of the much-anticipated new Ratmansky ballet at ABT...
Seeing Stars Always an exceedingly star-conscious company, American Ballet Theatre opened its annual spring season (May 18-July 11, at the Metropolitan Opera House) with a pair that would be hard to beat: Caroline Kennedy and America's new First Lady, Michelle Obama, two...
Dance, thematically if perhaps spuriously linked A roundup of May dance in New York, all over the map but bound together by an iron logic. Maybe....
Frankie Manning, "Never Stop Swinging" a half-hour PBS tribute tonight, 10:30 pm EST, to the Lindy Hop master...
Interior Decorator "Is technique a cause or an effect?", asks Arnold Schoenberg...
Rising and Falling at the Ann Hamilton Tower The most extraordinary venue for site specific performance I've ever encountered...
Renovating the House of Atreus "Clytemnestra" can't claim to be among Martha Graham's greatest Greek ventures; it's simply a helluva melodrama, filled with extremes of action, but short on depth, texture, and subtlety of emotion....
Some Dance, and a little music Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio and a clutch of good people at a La MaMa gala, plus Nico Muhly....
What he gave us Newly cued video--to the original Count Basie score--of the recently-passed Lindy Hop king Frankie Manning in "Hellzapoppin." Shouldn't be missed....
On the Move Trisha Brown, recently back at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, offered a show that indicates how she's moved from her beginnings to today, in a career that spans five decades....
Joe Goode Performance Group: Brilliantly, improbably Zen camp...