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A guide to the new season     BodyCartography Project, coming to Walker Art Center in October. Photo by Gene Pittman, Courtesy WAC.   This fall, a vibrant mix of voices will be “heard” onstage through movement, memorials, and mile-markers. From an array of world premieres hitting theaters across the U.S., to tantalizing festivals celebrating […]

In college, I worked as an usher for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. As amazing as the dancers were, especially in Ohad Naharin’s Decadance (the main attraction that season), you can only watch the same show so many times, while standing on the sidelines and intermittently guiding people to the bathroom, before it gets a little […]

The Joyce Theater, NYC May 15–27, 2012 Performance reviewed: May 15 Each time I see Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, I marvel at the earnest physical investment of its dancers: They attack each work as if they all matter equally, even ones that might not otherwise move me. I imagine choreographers would fight for the chance […]

An Epic Odette The Bolshoi returns to North America with two full-length productions this month. The question is, will the company project its usual bravura without Osipova and Vasiliev, formerly two of its biggest stars? First up is Toronto, with Swan Lake May 15–19 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Our cover guy […]

Here in New York, dance critics are gearing up for that time known informally as “March Madness.” The next four weeks offer up an embarrassment of dance riches, from Paul Taylor’s annual three-week season (happening for the first time at the David H. Koch Theater), to Wendy Whelan’s guest appearance with Stephen Petronio at the […]

Various venues, London February 2–5, 2012 It’s no mean feat to corral 35 companies or individual artists plus approximately 300 delegates from within the UK or abroad for three days of intensive dance-watching in seven London locations. But that’s what happened in early February at British Dance Edition. Nine presenting organizations joined forces for this […]

Eri Nakamura and Adi Zlatin in Sadeh21 (2011). Photo by Gadi Dagon.     Last year Ohad Naharin celebrated two decades at the helm of Batsheva, a short time considering the huge impact his work has had on the local and international dance community. Prior to Naharin’s triumphant return from New York in 1990, contemporary […]

The fall season’s bittersweet tone con­tains beginnings, endings, and, as always, anniversary celebrations. Classics and new works populate the dancescape, along with a strong showing of international troupes. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company wraps up its legacy tour with stops in Seattle, Oct. 27–29; at Stanford Lively Arts, Nov. 1; the University of Notre Dame, […]