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Mark Morris Rethinks Prokofiev's `Romeo' as Lusty, Gender Bending, Not Tragic Leave it to Mark Morris to create a ``Romeo and Juliet'' danced to Prokofiev that features no balcony, no crypt,...
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Partial View When the iconoclastic French choreographer Maguy Marin premiered her "Umwelt" in 2004 at the Toboggan, on the outskirts of Lyon,...
A Coffee Éclair: Personal Indulgences No. 9 I am in Paris with my husband. I have convinced him that he wants to accompany me to one of...
Damian Woetzel Leaps Into Future at City Ballet Love-In Damian Woetzel has danced with the New York City Ballet to continual acclaim for 23 years, 19 of them as...
Ballet Miscellany afterthoughts on ballets by Ratmansky and Wheeldon for City Ballet, Tharp for ABT, and Michael Clark for Great Performances. (Phew!)...
Of Puppets And Pirouettes Puppeteers and choreographers should collaborate more often....
Jerome Robbins at City Ballet What the Robbins Celebration tells us about Robbins, City Ballet and ballet critics....
N.Y. City Ballet Lost Ratmansky, Gains His `Concerto': Dance Alexei Ratmansky's ``Concerto DSCH,'' by far the most exciting new ballet I've seen in ages, had its world premiere last...
Tharp Goes to Hell, Back in `Rabbit and Rogue': World Premiere Ethan Stiefel, his Mr. Perfect technique softened since an operation for knee trouble, is the elder brother, all smart-alecky goofiness....
Youth Movement The performers of Jerome Robbins's "2 & 3 Part Inventions" moved with a graciousness, fluency, and technical prowess you'd hardly...
Julian Barnett's "Sound Memory" and other odes to retro habits at the La Mama Moves festival...
Female Fragility Musings about the frequent injuries to women in ballet, sports and horse racing....
Floozies, Lovers, Old Stars Herald ABT's Spring Season American Ballet Theatre opened its eight-week spring season Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan with a gala...
Eleanor Bauer: choreographer to watch...
Younger Than Springtime Surely you remember the old movies and tales in which a teenage dancer is spotted at the recital of a...
Contemporary choreographers and the war-- Inertia is the new Movement...
Robbins' "Dybbuk," flipside of "Watermill" The other, better, side of the choreographer's experiments...
Jerome Robbins' "Watermill" What makes this trippy ballet so unbearable...
The Nearness of You Should the world's most popular dance companies make an effort to perform in more intimate venues?...
What's going on... with the loss of staff critic jobs?...
Robbins Brought Charm, Glamour to N.Y. City Ballet The ringmaster of a mock circus directs 48 little girls from the School of American Ballet who finally spell out...
Exclusive interviews with Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan and Damian Woetzel about Jerome Robbins, the man and his dances. New York City Ballet celebrates him with...
Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui have created a brilliant and wise meditation on these mendacious Bush years. Apollinaire Scherr describes it....
Gerry's: Personal Indulgences No. 8 The dress on my back, the cloth on my dining table--unique, beautiful, old, and absurdly cheap. "Where'dja get it?" the...