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With her wacky charm, Celia Rowlson-Hall has become the dance darling of fashion and film.    Photo by Jayme Thornton (2)   When Celia Rowlson-Hall found out she would be choreographing for HBO’s “Girls,” she felt like she was in the right place. Woven into the drama of last season’s “Beach House” episode, her coy, […]

This summer’s Vail International Dance Festival features the biggest stars in dance.   Lil Buck and Tiler Peck at Vail 2013. Photo by Erin Baiano, Courtesy Vail.   Since Damian Woetzel took over Colorado’s Vail International Dance Festival in 2007, audiences have come to expect novelty: diverse styles of dance, collaborations between of-the-moment stars and […]

Comings & Goings Stuttgart Ballet’s Evan McKie will join The National Ballet of Canada as a principal. â–  Paris Opéra Ballet’s Nicolas Le Riche retires this month. â–  Three American Ballet Theatre soloists give farewells in July: Yuriko Kajiya and Jared Matthews (who join Houston Ballet as first soloists) and Sascha Radetsky. â–  Aspen Institute […]

Allow us to address, for a moment, a subject only tangentially related to dance: The fabulous good-sportiness of Broadway star Idina Menzel, currently headlining If/Then. (Well, there is some connection to dance here: If/Then features choreography by the ever-inventive Larry Keigwin, which you can read more about in the March issue.)   By now, you’ve […]

We’ve spent much of New York City Ballet’s winter season oohing and ahhing over French artist JR’s mind-bending installation for the Koch Theater. The most striking aspect of the project, part of NYCB’s Art Series, is his eerily realistic photocomposition for the floor of the theater’s promenade—a 6,500-square-foot collection of life-sized images of the company’s […]

Warning: The following claims are entirely subjective and are limited by what I’ve seen or not seen.     BEST (and worst) NEW CHOREOGRAPHY (world premieres or New York premieres.) • Borderlands, choreographed by Wayne McGregor for San Francisco Ballet at War Memorial Opera House. With snaking spines, vibrating arms, and torsos diving through a […]

From Jerome Robbins to Lucinda Childs to Doug Elkins to Jirí Kylián, it’s not easy to name a choreographer who hasn’t taken on one of Philip Glass’ propulsive scores. Dance Magazine is honoring the prolific composer on December 9 with a 2013 Dance Magazine Award*; other awardees are Mats Ek, Martha Clarke, Patricia Wilde and […]

Once a year, the New York dance community takes a night off to celebrate its biggest triumphs and brightest talents.   Well, most of the community takes the night off. At yesterday’s The Bessies, the NY Dance and Performance Awards, the awardees were such a prolific group that half of them were busy performing in […]