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Supplement your visit to the Land of the Sweets with these editor-approved, (mostly) non-Nutcracker shows onstage this month. Power Struggle Russell Lepley in costume for Ursula Kate Sweeney, Courtesy FluxFlow Dance Project COLUMBUS, OH FluxFlow Dance Project’s Ursula was inspired by a cautionary tale: a Joanna Newsom song about a circus bear and her monkey […]

When Michelle Dorrance put on her first show as Dorrance Dance in 2011, in a shared evening with Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, a charismatic teenager was featured in both choreographers’ works. Critic Gia Kourlas described Caleb Teicher in The New York Times as “a sleek dancer who possesses a beguiling combination of a relaxed upper body with […]

If like us you’re already mourning the end of American Ballet Theatre’s marathon Met season, don’t fear. The company just announced the lineup for its fall season, and there’s a lot to look forward to. Running October 16-27 at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, ABT’s fall lineup includes world premieres by choreographers Twyla Tharp […]

As far as we’re concerned, it’s not really summer until our favorite dance festivals kick things off. This year’s season is as packed and promising as ever, with seemingly everyone who is anyone converging on at least one big festival between now and August. Here are the artists, premieres and collaborations we can’t wait to […]

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. […]

Sometimes, change happens all at once. Last year, The Juilliard School, one of the country’s top conservatories for music, dance and drama, got not one new leader but three. Damian Woetzel, a former star at New York City Ballet, took the reins as Juilliard’s new president, the first in the institution’s history to come from […]

With a style that fuses tap dance, Lindy hop and vernacular jazz, Caleb Teicher has quickly proven himself a choreographic force to be reckoned with. After becoming known as a Bessie Award–winning member of Michelle Dorrance’s company (and a DM “25 to Watch” pick in 2012), Teicher started his own troupe in 2015. Since then, […]

Each month at Dance Magazine, we zero in on budding talent in our “On the Rise” department. Our writers across the country and beyond are continually on the lookout for the dancers and choreographers who are bound to be majors names in the years to come. With 2018 coming to a close, what better time […]