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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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NYCB: Fall 2024 Season – Déjà Vu All Over Again
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York September 21, 2024, matinee: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, Duo Concertant, Glass Pieces October 1, 2024: Serenade (SAB...
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National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London 2nd and 5th October 2024 The performance date for each work reviewed is given after its title. Stuart Sweeney NBoC returned to Sadler’s Wells after a gap of eleven...
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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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Ukrainian Dancers at City Center: Classicism with Gravitas
Ukrainian Dancers from The National Ballet of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Edmonton, Canada October 16, 2024 New York City Center Theater Mindy Aloff On this first of two evenings at...
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Cristiano Principato: Cinderella
Estonia Opera House Tallinn 14th October 2024 Stuart Sweeney Cristiano Principato is a soloist and fine dancer in the Estonian National Ballet. Still in his 20’s, it is interesting that, albeit with...
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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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Birmingham Royal Ballet: La Fille mal gardée
Sadler’s Wells London 25 October 2024 Maggie Foyer Beatrice Parma as Lise and Enrique Bejarano Vidal as ColasPhoto courtesy of BRB Carlos Acosta, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, has done in well...
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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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American Ballet Theatre – Fall 2024 Season, pt. 2: Sublime and Punishment
[Performance photographs will replace those below upon receipt.] American Ballet Theatre David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York October 25, 2024 Program – “Choreographers of the 20th...
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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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New Jersey Ballet – In the Night: Miracle in Morristown
[Note – Performance photos will replace, or be added to, the photos below upon receipt.] New Jersey Ballet Mayo Performing Arts Center Morristown, New Jersey November 8, 2024 “Creative Forces”...
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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 Miller’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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