The choreographer and director Akram Khan's reimagining of Kipling's fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:53PM[SHARE]Battle is stepping away after running the company for 12 years, citing health concerns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PM[SHARE]He became known for his "layered movement dialogue" and was an uncommonly dedicated teacher who mentored students over decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:31PM[SHARE]His company's debut program at the Joyce Theater has three New York premieres, including one about the Black roots of rock.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]A new work by Larry Keigwin and a company premiere by Ulysses Dove join programs that benefit from live music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PM[SHARE]Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PM[SHARE]A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by William Christie, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM[SHARE]Jake Roxander's soaring Puck in "The Dream" was the highlight of American Ballet Theater's final two programs this fall, the first season programmed by Susan Jaffe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PM[SHARE]A new "Pal Joey" at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM[SHARE]Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:59AM[SHARE]Liang, a choreographer who has run BalletMet in Ohio for 10 years, is the first Asian American to lead a ballet company of this size and stature.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi's "Broken Chord" considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England and North America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AM[SHARE]Two dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center are part of Christopher Williams's project of reimagining, and often queering, works by Diaghilev's company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PM[SHARE]Olivier Tarpaga's "Once the dust settles, the flowers bloom" is a subtle work of beauty and mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PM[SHARE]The festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can't it give them better programs?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:52PM[SHARE]Wanjiru Kamuyu's solo performance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens isn't a straightforward immigration story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PM[SHARE]The production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PM[SHARE]Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's "Filling Station" has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its "glimmer of queer liberation."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02AM[SHARE]Balanchine didn't think his ballets would last. But many have become classics, the cornerstone of repertory not just at City Ballet but around the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM[SHARE]Alexis Blake's "Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve," her first work to be shown in New York, focuses on strength and fragility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PM[SHARE]The choreography on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour doesn't ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use her simple moves to her advantage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]Jody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right " and vital to democracy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM[SHARE]Engaging viewers' bodies is central to this Broadway musical, a rare production that sets its audience in motion on the dance floor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM[SHARE]Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PM[SHARE]The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]The choreographer and his Puremovement troupe brought their touring show, "Nuttin' but a Word," to Prospect Park for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PM[SHARE]"One Dance," part of Korean Arts Week at Lincoln Center, puts a contemporary spin on rituals and ceremonies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including "duel c" on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:52PM[SHARE]Carlota Santana is neither a star performer nor a choreographer. But her skills as a director have kept her company an active part of the New York scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:29PM[SHARE]An arts program in a California state facility disproves the idea that "nobody dances in prison," encouraging inmates to channel their lives and emotions into movement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM[SHARE]Ballet Hispánico debuts two works: one about the 17th-century nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the other, "Papagayos," featuring a supernatural hat.
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