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Confidence and grace are the Ailey dancer’s trademarks.     Changing dynamics: Green has learned from Ailey veterans like Matthew Rushing.  Photo by Eduardo Patino, Courtesy AAADT. Last December, Jacqueline Green’s performance as a flirty working girl out on the town in Another Night, Kyle Abraham’s new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, was […]

For about a year, Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA, has been home to Moving Target, a series of contemporary master classes with guest artists from the local area and beyond. This fall, the series continued strengthening the ties between the Boston and New York dance communities. Green Street partnered with two major Boston dance […]

It’s almost time to announce the new class of “25 to Watch,” one of our favorite Dance Magazine features of the year. In choosing the annual list of 25 standout artists and companies, we ask our contributing writers and senior advising editors to identify who is on the verge of a breakthrough, who has all […]

This year, a single performance stood out as gut-wrenching and unforgettable: Nadia Beugré, from Cote d’Ivoire, delivered an almost unbearably compelling solo titled Quartiers Libres, wherein pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression, intermingled. It was part of the Voices of Strength tour from Africa that stopped at New York Live Arts. When Beugré gradually stuffed […]

Turning It Upside Down If Doug Elkins’ new story dances are even a fraction as funny as his Fräulein Maria, then we’re in for a treat this month. He is mounting two tales: Scott, Queen of Marys (a fitting title, since Elkins turns everything including gender on its head), and Mo(or)town Redux, a re-imagining of […]

The curtain goes up on Ailey’s season at New York City Center tonight—an exciting gala evening that’s just a taste of what’s to come. During the next month or so, the company, in its second season under Robert Battle, will perform a smattering of premieres and beloved works.   We can’t wait to see the […]

Wendy Whelan and Desmond Richardson. Photo by Jae Man Joo, Courtesy Complexions.   Blockbuster Duo: Desmond R. & Wendy W. Getting a chance to see Desmond Richardson dance is becoming increasingly rare since he began to spend more time mentoring younger dancers last year. So it’s with some excitement that we announce that he is […]

*This just in: Danspace Project has had to cancel its Yvonne Rainer “flashlight matinee.” However, Yvonne Rainer and Group’s performances have been rescheduled for January 24–26, 2013.*   “CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ARE CANCELED. AGAIN.” This kind of message has become distressingly routine over the past couple of days, as New York City theaters and dance […]