New Chamber Ballet opened their 2014/2015 season — the company’s 10th — on September 19 and 20 at City Center Studio 5 with three new works by Artistic Director Miro Magloire: Fast Forward, In The Cold, and Raw. Along with the world premieres, the …Read more
Rococo Rouge, presented by Company XIV and conceived, directed, and choreographed by Austin McCormick, will be running through November 2, 2014 in their new home, XIV. Upon entering, you are immediately placed in a world of exuberance and vitality re …Read more
Dances Patrelle is celebrating their 25th anniversary by reviving choreographer Francis Patrelle’s fifteen-year-old production of Romeo and Juliet. Running from September 11-14 in the company’s home theater, the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, the …Read more
Summer Blue, a part of the 2014 Dream Up Festival, is a combination of theater, dance, and performance art set to a deep blues score. It is also a means to further dialogue about our country’s most pressing issue: inequality. Whether you’ve been a vi …Read more
Emily Brontë, Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare are represented by movement, projected images and selections of the esteemed authors’ own words as Wing to the Rooky Wood, presented by Renaissance Now Theatre & Film, takes center stage as part …Read more
Playing through September, the Red Poppy Ladies’ Mulan the Musical serves up a unique blend of storytelling, dance, kunqu-style movement and, of course, a whole lot of drumming. The show from the Beijing-based female percussion group tells the tradit …Read more
Tuesday night, as part of the Brick’s ongoing Comic Book Theater Festival, Patrice Miller presented Out of Frame: Dance + Comics. The play was a choreographed, interactive look at the fun side of comic book favorites as the performers twisted, tangoe …Read more
While much of New York Theatre Ballet’s work is aimed at a young audience, their production of “Carnival of the Animals” and “Sleeping Beauty’s Wedding” is designed for children aged 7 or younger — the very youngest of theater-goers — in every resp …Read more
A dancer approaches the audience and asks them to give the dancers their shoes. After a brief pause, the shoes are removed, delivered and placed on the stage. The dancers ignore them at first, then pick them up, dance with them, trade with one anothe …Read more
On Thursday, Pace University presented a very special program of Taylor 2, an offshoot of the larger Paul Taylor Dance Company modeled after the venerable choreographer’s original six-member troupe founded in 1954. Three classic works from the Tayl …Read more