Janine Parker
Oh, it’s a strange world, ballet — filled with rituals and practices that Mary Jane Doherty captures with sharp-eyed grace.
Read MoreSouth African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.
Read MoreFuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.
Read MoreIf the creators of Flesh and Bone want to whip upanother trite soap opera, that’s their prerogative. But hush about the “realism.”
Read MoreThe “treats” being offered throughout Spektrel’s four dances are an eclectic variety of movement, music, and moods.
Read MoreMonchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.
Read More“Ballet is only good when it is great,” the legendarily unblinking dance critic Arlene Croce once wrote; whenever I bring that judgement to mind it makes me both swallow hard and sigh softly.
Read MoreCinderella 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.
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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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