The Japanese taiko drum and dance sensation Drum TAO is slated to premiere its new show, Drum Heart, in February at the NYU Skirball Center. At the center of the New York City-only production is the famed Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, reuniting wi …Read more

Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company, will be performing The Language of Chance at the NYU Skirball Center on January 14th as part of Circus Now 2016. Acrobatic Conundrum is led by Artistic Director and Co-founder, …Read more

Dancer Jess LeProtto made Top 8 in Season 8 of So You Think You Can Dance and has Broadway credits including The Boy From Oz, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Bye Bye Birdie, and Newsies.  Now, he’s heading to the Joyce to perform with American Dance …Read more

After seeing the third part of choreographer Teresa Fellion’s The Mantises are Flipping series at Danspace Project, we couldn’t wait to pick her brains about this fascinating work.  In between getting ready for a holiday party at Gibney Dance Center …Read more

Delineation Dance, founded early in 2015, is a contemporary dance company based in both New York City and Los Angeles. Their full company premiere, bringing dancers from both coasts together for the first time, came at the Upsurge Choreography platfo …Read more

World-renowned dance company Pilobolus premieres Shadowland later this month at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. We talked to Executive Director Itamar Kubovy about the show, the company’s process, and what’s in store for the future. …Read more

Everyone knows The Nutcracker. But what a lot of people don’t know about is that its original staging (by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1892) was a flop. Critics were confused by its storyline, and it was performed rarely until George Balanchine st …Read more

In 1850, news of the California Gold Rush reached China, leading 300,000 Chinese immigrants to settle in the United States — a few of whom settled in the American South. After the emancipation of slavery, there was work. They worked in cultural isol …Read more

After recovering from a debilitating illness, Kathryn Morgan, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet, is re-launching her career in the upcoming ballet musical To Dance at the 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival. I spoke with K …Read more

Georgina Pazcoguin, a soloist with New York City Ballet, has always been an artist in search for new experiences; in her time at NYCB, she’s performed dramatic character roles like Madge in La Sylphide, sung onstage in West Side Story Suite, and work …Read more