Impressions (The Dance Enthusiast's Brand of Review) of Battery Dance's 40th Anniversary Season by The Dance Enthusiast

"Battery Dance impresses tremendously with its legacy. It presents a company model that fosters global harmony, bringing together disparate cultures with dance as their universal language." …

Announcing the 2016/2017 BAX Artists in Residence by The Dance Enthusiast

A Postcard from The Hive New York by The Dance Enthusiast

"What is fascinating to me about this format is that it constitutes a paradigm shift in how the arts organize, and facilitates change in a larger cultural context in a way that only the arts…

Impressions (The Dance Enthusiast's Brand of Review) of Work Up 2.3 at Gibney Dance by The Dance Enthusiast

A Postcard from The Hoop Dream Retreat in Bali by The Dance Enthusiast

Impressions of MorDance by The Dance Enthusiast

"The dancers in this small, young, freelance ballet company are so beautiful physically that it makes one embarrassed even to be in their presence in the audience." Mindy Aloff, New York.

Impressions of Juliette Mapp's "Luxury Rentals" by The Dance Enthusiast

"She braids together two strands from her life: going to and from her son's preschool in Bedford-Stuyvesantand and being a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence to reflect on community " the…

Announcing 2016 Grand Marshals for the 10th Annual Dance Parade & Festival on May 21 by The Dance Enthusiast

A Postcard from Vanessa Tamburi, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION by The Dance Enthusiast

"My Festival co-founder Enzo Celli and I are thrilled to be able to bring together over 20 dance companies, artists and filmmakers visiting and living in NY," says Vanessa Tamburi.

Impressions of São Paulo Dance Company by The Dance Enthusiast

"Prodigious technicians; hot choreographers; moody pieces; and a sexy, cool vibe: everything points to a homerun. Instead, it's more like a bunt to first." Erin Bomboy, New York.

Dance: Broadway Stage and Screen - A Chat with Rosie Lani Fiedelman by The Dance Enthusiast

"The first Broadway audition I did took me right back to my work with Jennifer Muller," says Fiedelman. "There are the steps, but they aren't just the steps, they're bouncing off of …

Impressions of Gibney Dance's Work Up Series 2.4 by The Dance Enthusiast

"Thanks to the time that Mercer clearly put into developing his choreography, [of color] proves that dance can be an eloquent and profound medium to question identity, struggle and strength.…

Impressions of Center for Performance Research: Spring Movement 2016 by The Dance Enthusiast

Center for Performance Research's Spring Movement showcase on April 14 (there are three nights in the series, each presenting different artists) included four fabulously un-trendy pieces…

Impressions of Ellis Woods' "The Juggler of Our Ladies" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Wood's choreography alludes to emotional shifts, passing from innocence, rebellion, and struggles made tangible with straps bound around the dancers who tug and resist each other." Deirdre …

Impressions of Wendy Osserman Dance Company 40th Anniversary Season by The Dance Enthusiast

"...the pièce de résistance of the evening is Quick Time, also a premiere, and a bountiful work, richly textured with visual, aural, and physical collaborations." Christine Jowers, N…

The Dance Enthusiast Asks Jonathan Hollander and Tadej Brdnik About Contemporary Indian Dance by The Dance Enthusiast

"I lived with a highly cultured Indian family in Bombay, as it was called then (in 1968), and met extraordinary dancers who have continued to influence me from that day onwards." ~ Jonath…

Impressions from Philadelphia: Kun-Yang Lin/ Dancers' Prince Theatre Season by The Dance Enthusiast

"There has always been an edge to Lin's choreography; something offbeat about phrasing, something gritty about his vocabulary." Gregory King, Philadelphia.

TDE Asks Maria Bonzanigo, Co-founder of Compagnia Finzi Pasca by The Dance Enthusiast

"Art translates, filters, offers dreams in a new form." ~ Maria Bonzanigo

CUNY Dance Initiative Announces New Funding and 2017 Call for Applications by The Dance Enthusiast

CDI is holding an application information session on Wednesday, May 4, at 6:30pm at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Impressions from Philadelphia: Gallim Dance Collaborates in "Attack Point" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The bold collaboration brought together the New York based dance company with the Curtis Institute of Music and Choral Art Philadelphia." Gregory King, Philadelphia.

Impressions of Ballez's "Sleeping Beauty & the Beast" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Like a sorceress, Pyle stirs together two beloved fairy tales and adds a dash of ballet mythology in the form of Anna Pavlova's The Dying Swan to forge a dance that is timely and timele…

Enthusiastic Congrats to the 2016 Tom Murrin Performance Award Winner! by The Dance Enthusiast

Congratulations, Laurie Berg, winner of the 4th Annual Tom Murrin Performance Award, aka " The Tommy"!

Impressions of Danyi/Molnar/Vadas' "SKIN ME" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Sometimes cryptically, though persistently, this ensemble warns us to never presume and enjoy the moment because change is forever upon us." Deirdre Towers, New York.

Impressions of "Under Exposed" at Dixon Place by The Dance Enthusiast

"A showcase that spans a wide range of confidence and competence " and often offers up welcome surprises." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, New York.

Gibney Dance Launches GRIT: Gibney Repertory Initiative for Tomorrow by The Dance Enthusiast

"We view GRIT as a way to make it possible for the present generation's work to be recognized and celebrated in live performance by future audiences." ~ Gina Gibney

From the Press: Eight Over Eighty by The Dance Enthusiast

"At its third annual Eight Over Eighty benefit gala, The New Jewish Home paid tribute to eight New Yorkers who, in their ninth and tenth decades, continue to live lives of remarkable achieve…

Heather Kravas on her Premiere "play, thing" at the Chocolate Factory Theatre by The Dance Enthusiast

"I want the work to be a kind of architecture of desire: a place where we move through power and play and erotica and boredom. And that these conditions can coexist," explains Kravas.

Impressions of Work Up 2.2 by The Dance Enthusiast

"Choreographers Kimberleigh Costanzo, Lily Bo Shapiro and MiÅ™enka ÄŒechová create three wildly different works related to the body, physical sensuality, sex and desire," Nicole Loef…

Impressions of Counterpointe by The Dance Enthusiast

"In the hands of seven female choreographers who've been paired with seven painters and sculptors (also women), the pointe shoe, and sometimes ballet itself, receives a fresh interpretat…

Impressions of Bryn Cohn and Artists' "Home" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Throughout the piece, Cohn takes ideas of the traditional, utopian family and smashes them apart, allowing us to see what lies underneath." Theo Boguszewski, New York. 

Impressions of Work Up 2.1 by The Dance Enthusiast

"Work Up's tight curation usually means that even if the evening falls flat, the individual dances show remarkable research in one way or another." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, New York.