Ashley Bouder, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet known for her daring musicality and breathtaking technique, has a rich and varied repertoire with the company.  She’s performed 19th-century ballets like Swan Lake, danced in more than 30 ba …Read more

At 27 years old, Justin Peck is now Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet, where he has set several acclaimed ballets on the company. (His newest, choreographed to Aaron Copland’s Rodeo premieres this week.) Commissions for new ballets are c …Read more

The 43rd Dance on Camera festival, co-produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association, will be held January 30 through February 3, 2015. The dance-centric film festival will include narrative, documentary, and experimental …Read more

The EstroGenius Festival, which continues through November 2, celebrates female voices in theater.  We asked several of the women involved to talk about their favorite female playwrights. Connie Schindewolf – Playwright, A Bottle of Vodka: I would ha …Read more

The popular 2005 film “Mad Hot Ballroom” chronicled the introduction of ballroom dance classes to New York City schools and made a case for the importance of arts education.  Several years later, a new documentary has been released on a similar progr …Read more

One Day Pina Asked… Most dance enthusiasts will be familiar with Wim Wenders’ documentary “Pina”, which made a splash in 2011 for its beautiful use of 3D film and its release soon after choreographer Pina Bausch’s death.  Chantal Akerman’s 1983 “On …Read more

Giselle When Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg premiered their new production of “Giselle” at the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2012, it was met with critical acclaim and praised for its smart narrative choices. Now, audiences in New York will have the c …Read more

Secundaria For years, the names of Cuban dancers have populated the rosters of ballet companies in the United States and around the world: Carlos Acosta; Xiomara Reyes; sisters Lorna and Lorena Feijóo; José Manuel Carreño.  In “Secundaria”, director …Read more

Prima Directed by Tatyana Bronstein, “Prima” follows Larissa Ponomarenko, a former principal dancer with Boston Ballet, as she makes the transition from performing to working behind the scenes as a teacher and ballet mistress. Happily, Bronstein resi …Read more

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a 19th-century American feminist and writer, claimed that she wrote the short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” in an attempt to relegate the “rest cure” — routinely prescribed by doctors for ‘nervous conditions’ — to the anna …Read more