Winter 2025 on Both Sides of the Bay
Heather Desaulniers San Francisco Ballet – 2025 Opening Night Gala War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco San Francisco Ballet – Manon War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Cal Performances presents...
View ArticleNational Ballet of Canada: Giselle – Where Love Does Not Conquer All
National Ballet of Canada National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada January 30, 2025 Giselle Sheenagh Pietrobruno With the curtains yet to be drawn, the music of Adolphe Adam begins, performed magnificently...
View ArticleAkram Khan’s GIGENIS: where the personal becomes universal
Akram Khan and Company The Joyce Theater New York, New York February 12, 2025 GIGENIS, the generation of the Earth Preeti Vasudevan There comes a time in life when you are given a blank page to write...
View ArticleNYCB: Winter 2025 – Final Two Weeks: When Swans Fly
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York February 18, 19, 26, and 27, 2025 Swan Lake Jerry Hochman New York City Ballet concluded its Winter 2025 season with 13...
View ArticleAriel Rivka Dance: The Bold, The Old, and More
Ariel Rivka Dance New York Live Arts New York, New York March 6, 2025 Rust, Lead Me, Converge, Mossy, Selves (world premiere) Jerry Hochman Ariel Rivka Dance (ARD) presented its 17th annual Spring...
View ArticleAmerican Repertory Ballet: Spirits of the Highlands
American Repertory Ballet New Brunswick Performing Arts Center New Brunswick, New Jersey March 7, 2025 Spirit of the Highlands (world premiere) Jerry Hochman Sometimes theatrical productions, including...
View ArticleBallet Icons Gala 2025
London Coliseum 9 March 2025 Maggie Foyer Marianela Núñez and William Bracewell in The Sleeping BeautyPhoto: Jack Devant Ballet Icons Gala 2025 was a glittering evening with a lineup of some of the...
View ArticleGauthier Dance: That’s Entertainment
Gauthier Dance / / Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 11, 2025 Point, ABC, Swan Cake, Minus 16 Jerry Hochman For its first engagement at the Joyce Theater in...
View ArticleTwyla Tharp Dance: Diamond Jubilee
Twyla Tharp Dance New York City Center New York, New York March 12, 2025 Diamond Jubilee Program: Diabelli, Slacktide Jerry Hochman Sometimes the dividing line between lauding a new dance and being...
View ArticleNew Jersey Ballet: New Dance; New Casts
[Performance photos will be added upon receipt.] New Jersey Ballet Mayo Performing Arts Center Morristown, NJ March 15, 2025 “Masterworks in Motion” Program: Concerto Barocco, Tarantella, Purcell...
View ArticleBoston Ballet: Swan Lake Returns
Boston Ballet Citizens Bank Opera House Boston, MA February 27 and March 9, 2025 Swan Lake Carla DeFord The Boston Ballet production of Swan Lake, with choreography adapted by Mikko Nissinen after...
View ArticleEstonian National Ballet and Opera: Pulcinella and L’Heure Espagnole
Estonia Opera House Tallinn 26/2/2025 Stuart Sweeney This double bill – a ballet, Pulcinella, and an opera, L’Heure Espagnole – started life at the Opera Comique in Paris and has now found its way to...
View ArticleHubbard Street at the Joyce: Darmok, Where the Dances Are
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 25, 2025 Black Milk, Into Being, A Duo, IMPASSE Jerry Hochman Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returned to the Joyce Theater last...
View ArticleZuga: Ilan / Weather or Not
Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL) Tallinn, Estonia 30th March 2025 Stuart Sweeney Zuga United Dancers is collective of dancers and choreographers working collaboratively since 1999. They create productions...
View ArticleHerman Cornejo and Grupo Cadabra: “Anima Animal”
Herman Cornejo and Grupo Cadabra The Joyce Theater New York, New York February 28, 2025 Anima Animal Artistic Direction and Original Concept: Herman Cornejo Mindy Aloff Around 2016, I taught a dance...
View Article“Cycles”: Britain’s Boy Blue at the Joyce
Boy Blue The Rose Theater at Lincoln Center New York, New York March 28, 2025 Cycles Jerry Hochman Let’s get one thing on the table first. I know as much about hip-hop as I do about nuclear physics:...
View ArticlePreview: Dance Theatre of Harlem at City Center
Dance Theatre of Harlem New York City Center: Season Preview April 10-13; Program: The Cookout (alternating with Return) by Robert Garland The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude by William Forsythe...
View ArticleBoston Lyric Opera: A Reimagined “Carousel
Boston Lyric Opera Emerson Colonial Theatre Boston, MA April 6, 2025 Carousel Carla DeFord Performers of musicals are usually singing actors, and opera performers acting singers. Given that axiom, it’s...
View ArticleMartha Graham Dance Company: Extraordinary
Martha Graham Dance Company The Joyce Theater New York, New York April 3, 2025: Program B Frontier, Rodeo, Revolt and Immigrant, We the People April 8, 2025: Program C Deaths and Entrances, Errand Into...
View ArticleTom Gold Dance: The Night They (Re)Invented Champagne
Tom Gold Dance Bohemian National Hall, Grand Ballroom New York, New York April 10, 2025 Le Voyage Jerry Hochman The weather was miserable in Manhattan last week, including last Thursday, when Tom Gold...
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