February 20, the official opening night of West Side Story, marks the first Broadway musical opening of 2020. Once it does, the shows simply don’t stop. March and April are stuffed with new musicals—eight, to be exact—as shows rush to hit the boards before the April 23 eligibility deadline to be considered for a 2019–20 […]
Booking a Broadway show as a dancer is hard enough as it is. The fact that at least five of the nine shows left to open in the 2019-2020 season will not feature an ensemble doesn’t help. Sing Street , Girl From the North Country, Six, Company and Caroline, or Change will not employ ensembles; […]
There are lots of gift guides floating around the internet this time of year. But the end of the decade has us thinking about more than presents. As much as the dance world has evolved over the past 10 years, there’s still a lot of work to do. So we started pondering: If we could […]
As one of the most celebrated concert dance choreographers working today, a Broadway musical felt like a natural next step for Camille A. Brown. She’d already dabbled in choreography for musical theater and plays. Plus, she tells rich, vivid stories in her concert work about the struggles and triumphs of being a black woman in […]
While many of today’s top choreographers are getting commissions for story ballets, their creations don’t always build a satisfying experience for the audience. As Jennifer Stahl wrote in last week’s posting, there are risks to trying to make a new story ballet. So it’s with great pleasure that I can say I discovered a dance artist I […]
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