Forty five has never looked better. Tina Ramirez founded NYC-based Ballet Hispanico in 1970 with a mission to bring Latino dance and culture to the community. Now under the directorship of former company member Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispanico hasn’t …Read more

Enrico D. Wey opened this year’s spring season at Danspace Project on March 31 with a new solo work to accompany his 2015 work: this useless tool, this folded flower. Conceived as an intensely personal introspection, as well as a more macro examinati …Read more

On March 10, the Houston Ballet opened their Winter Mixed Repertory Program at the Wortham Center with captivating triple bill of geometrically simple contradictions, minimalistic mythology and an iconic American musical. The program began with the b …Read more

With a plain white stage, a simple drum set, and three bodies dressed in black, BOOMERANG Dance and Performance Project’s Repercussion calls the audience to rethink the sounds, shapes, and interactions within dance. The bare aesthetic of the show, pe …Read more

As a one-man show starring two men, Brodsky/Baryshnikov is a singular experience. Set on the poetry of Joseph Brodsky, performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and directed by Alvis Hermanis, the performance straddles the line between play and recital. It p …Read more

Based in simplistic sets and dripping with avant garde costumes, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s production of Cinderella proves that a classic story ballet doesn’t have to be classical. The national ballet company of Monaco celebrates its 30th annivers …Read more

Two jesters walk onstage in front of the curtain. One claps a beat on a clave, arcing it up and over, where the other catches it on his clave. They toss the beat back and forth like that—building to a drum roll that opens the curtain on the rest of D …Read more

Strength and Longing, a program consisting of four ballets presented by the Pennsylvania Ballet at Merriam Theater, lives up to its name in both muscular and atmospheric tone.  The evening provides both modern ballets and throwbacks to bygone eras si …Read more

The ingenuity of Austin McCormick — the choreographer, Artistic Director and founder of Company XIV — shines in Company XIV’s production of Snow White. He’s taken on Cinderella, The Nutcracker and, now, this darkly stylized burlesque ballet version …Read more

In front of an intimate crowd at Five Angels Theater’s black box space nestled outside of Midtown’s hustle and bustle, Alison Chase/Performance swimmingly delivered an impressive, imaginative 75-minute program. Artistic Director Alison Chase, who fou …Read more