Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers presented Mira El! last week at the Abrons Arts Center Underground Theater as part of the 2016 American Realness Festival. Mira El!  commands the audience’s attention and prompts an investigation of identity, intima …Read more

Twenty dancers entered and exited a freeform cluster in the main studio. Anyone could jump in. Anyone could exit. With shoes left in the hallway, dancers encountered the ground – a centering force from which to draw, as they improvised in groups of t …Read more

Radio inherently has a peculiar character among modes of communication in that it can be at once deeply intimate and small, but also highly communal and far-reaching. One or two individuals with the right equipment in a little room can broadcast acro …Read more

Much of the circus arts exist outside of a big top. This is evidenced by the three groups that performed in Friday’s International Contemporary Circus Expo at NYU’s Skirball Center. The expo was sponsored by Circus Now, a nonprofit dedicated to suppo …Read more

As part of the 2016 NY Coil Festival, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Performance Space 122 present Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham’s Morphia Series, January 12-16. Morphia Series is an immersive, theatrical dance experience performed for only 12 audienc …Read more

The stage opens on a set of stairs leading to a glittering, ladies-only jazz band. They launch into a mash-up of a few jazz standards, including “It Don’t Mean a Thing” and “Luck Be a Lady”. The performance legend Maurice Hines appears onstage as tho …Read more

On Saturday, January 9th a group of approximately 75 audience members filled the open wings of the Playhouse Theater at Abrons Arts Center to view the work of Keith Hennessy, a San Francisco-based dance and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of …Read more

In 2013, renowned ballet director Sergei Filin was doused with acid by a masked attacker, right outside his own home. No, that isn’t a cheesy subplot you missed in Insert Ballet Drama Here], that’s just one of the scandals in which the Bolshoi Ballet …Read more

Catherine Galasso’s get dancing was performed as part of the Danspace Project, December 10-12, 2015 at St. Mark’s Church. A revival of choreographic works by Andy de Groat, the concert consists of four dances by de Groat, recreated by Catherine Galas …Read more

Hollye Bynum, choreographer and Artistic Director of her company, of bones || hollye bynum, presented a full-length, stage and screen production, RELEASE, at the 14th Street Y on December 17, 2015 as a part of the theater’s inaugural 2015-2016 Dance …Read more