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Ah, the French! What they make of ballet in Frederick Wiseman's "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet"...
Just before 8 A few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time -- after years in the business my body is trained!...
Tere O'Connor's miraculous "Wrought Iron Fog"...
Natural/Unnatural DV8 shocks liberal-minded San Francisco audiences...
Morphoses Falters Three years ago, when Christopher Wheeldon left the security of his position as Resident Choreographer at the New York City Ballet to form his own small company, Morphoses, his head was full of extravagant dreams about making classical ballet new...
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
Snapshot This week's video: Les Ballets Trockadero dance the first movement of Peter Anastos' "Go for Barocco."...
Wiseman's Lens on Dance The ticket line at Greenwich Village's Film Forum November 4-17 for Frederick Wiseman's latest grand-scale documentary, La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, will surely contain as many dance fans as film buffs. And I suspect...
Garth "Lion King" Fagan in a subdued mood...
Spooky shows from Bill T. Jones and Joe Goode on the West Coast work the nerves...
How much is originality worth? We consider the case of Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Orbo Novo," at the Joyce this week....
Why the Balanchine Trust (and other arts organizations) may have to play the heavy in shutting down YouTube clips. Foot talks to someone who knows the legal ins and outs....
ABT'S Experiment Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center's main concert venue, lacks an orchestra pit, wing space, and a floor suitable for dancing. Musicians performing there stay put once onstage, limiting their motion to decorous walks to and from their places. Not for...
Finding Cunningham in unexpected places. Plus, what to do when you're a tango choreographer saddled with a soft-porn plot...
Decreation Indeed William Forsythe made his name creating ballets with an eye to pushing the art conspicuously forward, as Balanchine had done. Nowadays he makes concoctions that are so hard to appreciate, detractors find them empty, showy, foolish, inexplicable, or all of...
What would Balanchine have thought of YouTube? Foot, by way of Arlene Croce and Jonathan Lethem, makes an educated guess....
The Balanchine Trust has no idea what YouTube is good for (hint: Balanchine and live ballet), so they've acted the heavy and shut down a 1300-item ballet video channel on YouTube. While we wait for the NY Times to investigate, some thoughts......
Three cheers for American Ballet Theatre ..for taking some risks this fall. If only the yield had been better....
The annual nearly free Fall for Dance.... half-heartedly explores its Ballets Russes theme. And even so it was something....
Dancing With the Bulls In just 37 seconds, José Tomás shows why, how ... and wow!...
For madmen and movement lovers only: Emio Greco | PC's [purgatorio] POPOPERA...
Dancing Without Motion Often the visual arts will make a dance fan feel he or she is in the presence of dancing that doesn't move through space and time, but is dancing nonetheless, or at least its cousin. The actual dance pickings...
Beat It Technology has allowed the metronome to roar ... Just when did musicians start to play whole passages, or whole pieces, with the metronome running?...
Dr. Bill: Personal Indulgences No. 15 My father was a doctor, a general practitioner--G.P.--as his type was called back then when it was very common. Regular patients called him "Dr. Bill," instinctively combining honorific with nickname...
The failure of America's Best Dance Crew The format kills the subject...