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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 […]

Big Dancing in Small Parks  NEW YORK CITY  SummerStage is back, offering free outdoor performances in all five boroughs. This month, the Francesca Harper Project performs Harper’s Modo Fusion: Art Prototype, a foray into the world of beauty pageants that fuses dance with music and film in the East River Park, Aug. 16. In a […]

A gleaming white stage sitting directly on the water; visible rays of sunlight streaming through the clouds; a hugely talented group of performers from various corners of the dance universe, all united in one cause—in a word, the Fire Island Dance Festival is idyllic. We were lucky enough to be guests at last weekend’s festival, […]

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater just announced programming for its annual December season at New York City Center, and we couldn’t be more psyched. Artistic director Robert Battle is taking the company into exciting territory. Yes, the season will include Alvin Ailey’s The River and Pas de Duke (both with new production elements), and of […]

ADF Turns 80 Paul Taylor, Kyle Abraham, Mark Dendy, Trisha Brown—is there a better group with whom to commemorate American Dance Festival’s 80th anniversary? Through July 27, ADF’s 2013 season brings 25 companies and 47 performances to Durham, NC. It’s the second year without Charles Reinhart, since retired, but Jodee Nimerichter has ably followed in […]

Ailey’s petite force     In Jirí Kylián’s Petite Mort, with Jermaine Terry. Paul Kolnik, Courtesy AAADT.    In rehearsal for Ronald K. Brown’s Grace, Alvin Ailey’s Belen Pereyra cuts an unassuming figure in a black T-shirt and sweatpants. But the petite 25-year-old has an outsize presence, thanks to her crisp yet freewheeling style. In the […]

The DanceLink Fellowship Program puts students to work.   Abraham.in.Motion in Pavement. Carrie Schneider, Courtesy Pentacle   Pamela Tatge feels a strong responsibility to expose Wesleyan students to the working world of contemporary dance. As director of the Center of the Arts, she’s not a professor, or even a former dancer—her background is in theater—but […]

Amid barbeques and beach trips, there are plenty of dance events to check out this Memorial Day weekend. Late May officially kicks off spring recital season, but as you know, not all school productions mean hours of toddlers in tutus “sashaying”—don’t you mean chassé-ing?!—to top 40 hits. Jump start your weekend with tickets to Purchase […]