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I guess my list is pretty long. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself; there were so many performances and artists that ranked high in my personal accounting.   Best new choreography • Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming at Danspace: She broke not only the fourth wall but the floor too, making the audience part of […]

This year we celebrate six extraordinary dance artists: American Ballet Theatre’s Misty Copeland, Youth America Grand Prix’s Larissa Saveliev, jazz master Luigi, American Tap Dance Foundation’s Brenda Bufalino and Tony Waag, and choreographer Wayne McGregor. Misty Copeland Misty Copeland is more than a dancer. As an outspoken advocate for racial equality in ballet—and living proof […]

ABT’s Isadora Loyola, Skylar Brandt, and Cassandra Trenary in Gaité Parisienne. Photo by Fabrizio Ferri.     After a week of high-flying Don Quixotes, there’s much to look forward to in American Ballet Theatre’s eight-week season at the Met. Of course, exquisite principals and guest artists will be dancing classics like Swan Lake and Giselle. […]

The Boston Ballet dancer brings emotion as well as athleticism to his roles.   In the world premiere of the angular, abstract Resonance by Jose Martinez at Boston Ballet, you wouldn’t have known that Roddy Doble has spent most of his career in classic story ballets. His athletic build and the explosive quality of his […]

Calvin Royal III is on a roll. The American Ballet Theatre corps member didn’t even begin training until he was 14, but in the past year, he’s become the kind of dancer you can’t ignore. He elegantly mastered principal roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy and Twyla Tharp’s Bach Partita (alongside Polina Semionova and Marcelo […]

We’ve Been Waiting for This ON TOUR:   When Akram Khan premiered DESH in England two years ago, our reviewer, Donald Hutera, wrote that “Khan’s stunning production feels like a culmination of everything this gifted British-Bangladeshi choreographer has been striving for.” Fascinating for his kathak-infused movement, whether helicopter-fast or mesmerizingly slow, Khan time-travels in this […]

Shaping Sound—the company created by Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance, and Kyle Robinson (see “Who Needs the Drama” in your July issue)—brought its loud and darkly-lit That’s Where I’ll Be Waiting production to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan last night. (One reviewer’s opinion, here.) In a house full of screaming teens and their moms, […]

American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House New York, NY May 31–June 3, 2013   At right: Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes in Ratmansky’s Symphony #9. Photo by Marty Sohl, Courtesy ABT.     Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy,” the most anticipated ballet premiere of the New York season, met lofty expectations. The choreographer, artist in residence […]