‘So Far From Ukraine’: A Princely Dancer Finds a Home in Miami
Stanislav Olshanskyi has had to battle homesickness and adjust to Miami City Ballet’s style: quick, light, constantly in motion. He’s also the prince in “Swan Lake.”
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Stanislav Olshanskyi has had to battle homesickness and adjust to Miami City Ballet’s style: quick, light, constantly in motion. He’s also the prince in “Swan Lake.”
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The spring season at New York City Ballet opened with an all-Balanchine program and a vintage miniature from 1975: “Errante,” staged for a new generation.
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Eduardo Vilaro celebrates his 15th year as artistic director of Ballet Hispánico with a premiere exploring the life of the Afro-Hispanic artist.
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The vampire ballerina in the new movie “Abigail” has a long pop culture lineage. She and her sisters are obsessed, tormented and likely to cause harm.
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Click through as Joseph Gordon performs a section from Alexei Ratmansky’s new dance for New York City Ballet, a reaction to the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
By Gia Kourlas and
Watch Martha Graham’s Dance of Empowerment
In 1936, Graham choreographed this scorching response to the rise of fascism.
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Where Subway Dancers Practice Their Art
“You are the center of your own world. Any space is important,” the Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula told members of It’s Showtime NYC.
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Rugged, Physical Work With Durability
In Abby Zbikowski’s “Radioactive Practice,” a dancer says, “You’re seeing survival and community in real time.”
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In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
By Brian Seibert
Under the banner “American Legacies,” the Martha Graham Dance Company dusted off a classic, “Rodeo,” premiered a companion piece and welcomed FKA twigs for a guest solo at City Center.
By Siobhan Burke
Two dancers from the Russian company were set to perform at a benefit for a prestigious competition for young dancers, but they were sidelined after protests by pro-Ukrainian activists.
By Javier C. Hernández
Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.
By Chloé Cooper Jones
Advice on quashing doubt and maximizing procrastination, according to Joan Baez, Kim Gordon, Bill T. Jones and Myha’la.
Interviews by Kate Guadagnino
This season’s beginners, from Ice Spice to Tyla to Sarah Pidgeon.
Interviews by Juan A. Ramírez and Emily Lordi
The Sydney Dance Company’s “ab [intra]” at the Joyce Theater is impressive but chilly.
By Brian Seibert
Once a young bunhead, the acclaimed musical artist is taking the stage with the Martha Graham Dance Company. For her, it’s holy grail territory.
By Gia Kourlas
He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction.
By Alex Williams
New York City Ballet will present a mix of old and new works, including premieres by Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Caili Quan, and introduce fewer intermissions.
By Rachel Sherman
As Harlem Stage’s E-Moves dance series turns 25, Bill T. Jones and other major choreographers discuss its impact on Black dance in New York.
By Brian Seibert
The company performed its first New York City Center season under the direction of Robert Garland in a program including George Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.”
By Gia Kourlas
In “Nail Biter,” a New York City premiere, this exacting choreographer explores her ballet roots and how to be in her body now.
By Gia Kourlas
The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?
By Robin Pogrebin
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The choreographer Dianne McIntyre presents “In the Same Tongue,” a dance she calls “an artistic history of myself,” at the new Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater.
By Gia Kourlas
“We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.
By Brian Seibert
Under the artistic leadership of Emily Molnar, Nederlands Dans Theater returned to New York City Center with a less than stellar triple bill.
By Gia Kourlas
Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
By Brian Seibert
Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
By Roslyn Sulcas
As the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved, it has trained dancers and choreographers for tenacity as much as technique.
By Brian Seibert
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