
"We can’t control what life puts in our path. But with the right framework: a trust in our abilities to bring order and meaning, an openness to insights and unexpected ways of seeing, and …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The performance that follows is a combination of narration and choreography that plays like memory. The stage is strewn with objects: loose squares of fabric, empty frames, a ladder, a tabl…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"An otherworldly hum overwhelms us for the opening and closing of Quinto Elemento, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana's 2026 scintillating offering at The Joyce Theater. With that sonic cho…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"A master in immersive storytelling, Rosán Sensory Adventures is a physical theater company designed for neurodivergent audiences. Based in Galway, Ireland, the collaborative ensemble inter…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Accolades for Tiffany Rea-Fisher’s dance company EMERGE125, celebrating its 10th year, were numerous. Filmed testimonials spoke of Rea-Fisher’s impact on the dance community, citing h…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Since its inception in 1987, AXIS Dance Company, a pioneering integrated dance company, has advanced the field through artistry and innovation. AXIS collaborates with disabled, non-disabled…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Two such performances this April catalyzed these reflections on effort and ease: Jonathan González’s multimedia group work, Swerve Fatigue, presented by The Kitchen in their loft at Wes…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"As a child, choreographer Mythili Prakash questioned why they had to create a Goddess when there were already others able. Why must it be a Goddess made of male energy? In challenging the s…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Though the exciting program of three ensemble works spotlights the varying talents of its Latina choreographers, the real stars of the show are the Ballet Hispánico dancers who, under the …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"This performance marked the American Dance Guild and Clark Center's first joint presentation, uniting legacy institutions in a shared call for artistic and social engagement. Founded in 195…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Stephanie Saywell and Helen Wicks shared an hour-long evening at Arts On Site, an intimate stage well-suited to their solo and duet program." — Catherine Tharin, New York City
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"I’ve been fortunate across my time here to be involved in a lot of different residencies and fellowships. But what I’ve found in New York City is that some of the residency opportunitie…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Steven Wendt and Wes Day’s Plato Caves: Screens vs Shadows was, on the sunny Sunday afternoon performance I attended, a massive delight for a rapt audience of children. The event is The C…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"What's bringing me the most joy in what I do in the dance world?' It's having a bunch of people walk into a room with zero expectations, no judgment, and leaving much happier than when they…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"As climate change accelerates and oceans rise, choreographer Gabrielle Lamb’s latest collaboration turns to water as both physical force and poetic metaphor [...] Lamb translates scientif…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Walking past the enormous stage, the 1,200-person audience takes their places on risers facing the back of a glowing red sofa with a giant screen hovering behind it. The setting is impressi…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Frisky and irreverent, choreographer Jane Comfort makes no secret of her contempt for America’s decadent political Establishment. The Gulf of America, the premiere that her Jane Comfort a…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"One of the most arresting moments occurs as Melnick and Mearns, in a meditative duet, envelop their bodies into looped sculptures of flowers. With this image, it is as if they become flower…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Costumed by Isaac Mizrahi in loose-fitting, long-sleeved jumpsuits — white on the front, black on the back — MOON’s nine dancers suggest the light and dark sides of the moon, or per…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The New York Flamenco Festival programmed a series of events including Irene Morales in La Argentinita at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and RAW at Joe's Pub, Sara Bara…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"What captivates me about CLOSE UP from start to finish is the clarity and force of its images. Vignettes rush past, emerging from darkness; they shift across time and tell nonlinear stories…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"What stood out from my observation of rehearsal, and from my conversations with Cook-Beatty and her company, was their passion for movement and their commitment to one another and to the wo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"As an aging, aged, old artist, the question I'm asking is around relevance. Can I be relevant? [...] That can't be the same relevance that younger artists have [...] When you've done work…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Susan Jaffe, the artistic director of American Ballet Theatre, has introduced a spring season to the company’s New York City schedule. Performed were dances: Raymonda, Mozartiana, N…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Valentina Baché is a choreographer without inhibition. They take risks playing with violence and danger as they carry us on a journey through a hurricane. They hope this experience will jo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Tree is full of feeling, expressed in tight, sharp hand gestures, chainé turns with hair awhirl, and long flamingo-like legs that lift and stretch as they step or hiccup. But the em…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Mostly, what I remember are umpteen lines and angles, overlapping bodies with arms and legs slicing out in all directions. Like the astonishing music, the overall choreographic landscap…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Imagine a free online platform explicitly geared to the dance field that combines the bonding and storytelling pleasure of Instagram and Facebook with Ancestry.com's ability to illustrat…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"I create in a way to see the music. I think of it as painting the music, rather than dancing the music […] and using the dancers through time and space as a way of sort of painting flowin…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Start with Winter in Brief, parts 1 and 2 for highlights from Live Artery, Under the Radar, The Exponential Festival, and the Out-FRONT! Festival. IÂ reflect on the rich variety of works …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"DOCF 2026 presents 33 films from 12 countries on February 6 - 9 in Symphony Space's The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater on the Upper West Side. Tobin Del Cuore's Through Memory and Jenni…
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