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The superhuman Wendy Whelan’s own evening of dance     Whelan, with Brian Brooks, in Brooks’ Fall Falls. Photo by Christopher Duggan, Courtesy Jacob’s Pillow.   Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature, premiering at Jacob’s Pillow this month, connects the ballerina—one of the finest of our time—with four contemporary choreographers. Joshua Beamish, Alejandro Cerrudo, Brian Brooks, and […]

Compañía Teatro de la Danza del Caribe, directed by Eduardo Rivero Walker, takes the stage at the opening festival gala. Photo by Julia Sewell XXII Festival del Caribe: Fiesta del Fuego Various venues Santiago, Cuba July 3?9, 2002 Reviewed by Julia Sewell For twenty-two years, the city of Santiago and the cultural center Casa del […]

This incomplete list of COVID-19 performance cancellations hints at the scope of the impact this pandemic is having on our community.

A feast of Forsythe, a surfeit of Dorrance Dance, a challenge to how we perceive refugees. Our editors’ performance picks this month run the gamut. Boston’s Mixtape Master BOSTON Halfway into his five-year partnership with Boston Ballet, William Forsythe is gifting East Coast audiences with his first new work for an American company since 1992. […]

For many of today’s top dance artists, summer layoff has turned into series of solo tours. We can often catch a peek on their Instagram posts, where their candor about the long hours, sore bodies and early morning flights to and from festivals does nothing to diminish the glamor of leaping through some of the […]

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 […]

Anti-bullying programs that aim to start a conversation and stop the violence   Students of Project Moves Photo by Megan Belanger, Courtesy Gold Teased, taunted, and left out, the Ugly Duckling is an unhappy loner in Robert Mills’ 2005 ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. The scenes performed in The Ugly Duckling are […]

Five dancers discuss how learning from their mothers shaped them. Photo of Stacey Tookey by Joe Toreno for Dance Teacher. At age 13, Stacey Tookey didn’t like the solo her dance teacher was creating for her, and she had the audacity to say so. “I thought I could do better, so she left me to […]