Dance
Cinderella isn’t a lavish spectacle à la the Met, but rather, like its heroine, modest on the surface while pulsing with a generous heart underneath.
Read MoreFew companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company’s desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.
Read MoreGet your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.
Read MoreThe performers must be so deeply invested in what they are doing that we are caught up in the narrative as its cobwebs are brushed away.
Read MoreWhat happens when someone performs at the highest possible level of an art form and then has to give it up?
Read MoreJamie Kirsch describes Les Noces as “a non-stop, energetic, tour-de-force ride that lasts 25 minutes without a break and leaves you breathless by the end.”
Read MoreContemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.
Read MoreTwo 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
Read MoreI wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.
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Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race
Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.
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