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Dancing the Impossible: Choreography for the Camera

In choreographer Laurie McLeod’s film Yes, She Said, a bride, suddenly panicked, dives into a swimming pool to hide from her wedding and is filmed underwater, gown billowing. In choreographer Pooh Kaye’s animated Sticks on the Move, a motley cast glides and skitters down a New York street on miraculously moving lumber. In Pupa, dancer/videographer […]

The Magic Pilgrim

In the dying light of a summer’s day, an Asian woman, her hair in a pigtail, turns slowly in the weeds by a Brooklyn canal. One hand is at her chest, the other stretches out to the side. Behind her, across the canal, is a factory, its windows catching the reflection of the setting sun. […]

Enchanted by Cuba

Havana is a city where, when you tell a taxi driver to take you to the theater to see a ballet, he (or she) asks, “Who is dancing tonight?” Tickets for the biannual International Ballet Festival of Havana are sold out weeks in advance. The audience, a mix of all economic classes, bursts into applause […]

Vital Signs

Cal Performances celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Connors, who started the job in 1945, recalls the early, pre-Misha era. “It was very hard to get companies to come out. There were so few performing opportunities on the West Coast. And they didn’t fly in those days,” she says.     In earlier decades, Berkeley […]

Attitudes

The 20th century could—at least in the Western world—be called the Century of the Woman. It was a century of emancipation and universal suffrage, women’s rights, feminism, and, at least on paper, equal opportunity, if not equal wages. But despite any glass ceiling, it was a century of enormous progress for women. This progress was […]

The Hottest Dance Topics of 2016

What were the most popular dance topics of the year? We measured your favorite posts by the number of times you clicked on them, and though the results don’t necessarily capture the newsiest events of 2016 (see: huge turnover at major companies basically everywhere), they point to two broad themes that readers cared about: how […]