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Film Review: I AM NOT OK
I AM NOT OK (2022) Brooklyn Artists Exhibition The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York October 4th 2024-January 26th 2025 Choreography by Gabrielle Lansner in collaboration with the dancers Dancers: Pat...
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Fall for Dance 2024: Chacun a son goût
Fall for Dance 2021 New York City Center New York, New York September 18, 21, 24, and 27, 2024 Program 1: Wartime Elegy (Ukraine National Ballet), Piano Songs (Aran Bell), SAMA (Gallim) Program 2: For...
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Vildwerk. Inaugural Program: Returning to Wild
Vildwerk. El Museo Del Barrio Theater New York, New York October 15, 2024 Program: “Time to Protect Our Planet”– Ará, Network, Toujours, Monarcas, Moss Anthology: Variation #5, This Bitter Earth, The...
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Meredith Monk’s Indra’s Net: A Moment of Interconnectedness
[Editor’s Note: Please join me in welcoming back to CriticalDance esteemed artist, storyteller, and choreographer Preeti Vasudevan. In addition to the more detailed biography included at the end of her...
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American Ballet Theatre, Fall 2024 Pt. 1: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
[Performance photos, including from the world premiere dances, will replace those below upon receipt.] American Ballet Theatre David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York October 16, 2024...
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American Repertory Ballet: “Wonderment” Program – A Wonderful Program
American Repertory Ballet New Brunswick Performing Arts Center New Brunswick, New Jersey October 19, 2024 (matinee and evening) Program: “Wonderment” – Little Improvisations, Black Swan Pas de Deux,...
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SF/Bay Area Round-up – October 2024
Heather Desaulniers Smuin Contemporary Ballet – Dance Series 1 Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, San Francisco RAWdance – 20th Anniversary Home Season ODC Theater, San Francisco Stanford Live presents...
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STAGED: a film in memory of Gus Solomons, Jr.
STAGED In living memory of Gus Solomons, Jr. Commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Filmed at Jerome Robbins Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY Kristen Hedberg vAL is the creative identity...
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Artists in Motion: Eclectic Lyricism
Artists in Motion Ailey Citigroup Theater New York, New York November 1, 2024 Alison Cook Beatty Dance: Humanitas (Act 1), Lacrimis (excerpt), New Loom Thomas/Ortiz Dance: A Civil Twilight, Good...
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Limón Dance Company: Reaching for the Stars
Limón Dance Company The Joyce Theater New York, New York November 9, 2024 The Traitor, Scherzo, The Quake That Held Them All (world premiere), Two Ecstatic Themes, Missa Brevis Jerry Hochman Cut to the...
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GALLIM: Andrea in “WONDERLAND”
GALLIM The Joyce Theater New York, New York November 15, 2024 WONDERLAND Jerry Hochman There’s this thing I have about Andrea Weber’s choreography. Of those pieces of hers that I’ve seen, all I could...
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Bill T. Jones’s “Still/Here”: Still Here
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, New York November, 2024 Still/Here Preeti Vasudevan ‘What do you know that I don’t know…?…Tell me it, show me it…’ – Bill T Jones...
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Paul Taylor Dance Takes Flight: Masterpieces, New Directions, and Little Gems
Paul Taylor Dance Company David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York November 6, 2024 (Gala): Chaconne in Winter (world premiere), Dedicated to You (world premiere), Promethean Fire...
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Paul Taylor’s “The Word”: Meaning and References
Paul Taylor Dance Company David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York November 13, 2024: The Word Mindy Aloff It is a truism that, as the choreographer Matthew Bourne put it recently in a...
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Biography Corner 2024
Heather Desaulniers Whether enthusiast or professional, scholar or die-hard fan, those steeped in the dance world likely have plenty of dance biographies and topical tomes. The cast is often very...
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Complexions 30th Anniversary: Blood, Bodies, and Bolero
Complexions Contemporary Ballet The Joyce Theater New York, New York November 29, 2024 Program B: Blood Calls Blood, Deeply (world premiere) (excerpt), Bolero (world premiere), For Crying Out Loud...
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Lydia Johnson Dance: Eau de Vie
Lydia Johnson Dance Martha Graham Studio New York, New York December 5, 2024 Chapters, Summer House, Time…and again (excerpts), Legacy (premiere) Jerry Hochman I’m not a fan of minimalism, particularly...
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Late Fall in the Bay Area
Heather Desaulniers Cal Performances presents Pilobolus Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley San Francisco Ballet – Nutcracker War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Smuin Contemporary Ballet – The Christmas...
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The Trocks in New York: Jingle Belles Rock
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo The Joyce Theater New York, New York December 17, 2024 Program A: Giselle Act II, Symphony (world premiere) December 20, 2024 Program B: Swan Lake Act II, Patterns...
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Malpaso at the Joyce: Portrait of a Company
Malpaso Dance Company The Joyce Theater New York, New York January 25, 2025 Ara, Retrato de Familia (Family Portrait), Vertigo, Indomitable Waltz Jerry Hochman Malpaso Dance Company returned to The...
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