DANCENOW honored twenty years of dance, kicking off their Anniversary Festival Celebration on September 9th. DANCENOW began in 1996 when sixty artists featured their work in eight downtown venues during the multi-arts series known as the Downtown Art …Read more

The magnificent multimedia dance theatre play Pearl, inspired by the life of writer Pearl S. Buck, premiered at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Thursday night. This gorgeous, sweeping epic is directed and choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, …Read more

An elderly woman slowly emerges from behind a trunk, plugs in a small lamp, and retreats into the past. So begins Dancers, a ‘movement play’ performed by Wrought Atlas Theatre Ensemble currently making its North American premiere at the New York Inte …Read more

Solo For Two, a presentation of three dance works at New York City Center, featured a few of the most gorgeous creatures of the ballet world: its stars, Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, as well as Edward Watson, Elizabeth McGorian, Donald Thom, Tom …Read more

At the Ballet Festival at The Joyce Theater, The Ashley Bouder Project offered originality and a daring multi-media work to the stage. The 2015 Ballet Festival features young dance companies, interested in moving beyond their company training. Ashley …Read more

Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone pairs marvelously with the intensely passionate art form known as flamenco in Noche Flamenca’s production of Antigona, starring the enormously talented Soledad Barrio. Playing at the West Park Presbyterian Church, an inter …Read more

When the lights dim and the silence falls you’re not sure what you’re waiting for as you anticipate FJK Dance’s program to begin. What to expect from a dance company that uses a combination of ballroom, ballet, and Middle Eastern folklore to tell you …Read more

What happens when one artist creates in response to another’s work? Certainly in the case of Zvi Gotheiner’s recent dance piece at New York Live Arts, Escher/Bacon/Rothko, the manifestation of one brilliant mind inspired by, in this case, three brill …Read more

New York born, Israeli-based choreographer Nadine Bommer has chosen a topic which I’ve never seen put into dance or theatre – football, or soccer, depending on your culture.  In her pursuit to create a piece of dance theatre, she plays with all the o …Read more

Look out, modern dance world, the young ones are comin’ for ya. If this is what we in the dancerverse have to look forward to, the world is about to look jarringly different. On Friday, June 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, I watched what …Read more