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You gotta love a world where a kid who dazzles friends on the streets of Memphis can take his talents all the way to China and shoot a Nokia for Windows commercial in between. And so it is with Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, whose amazing feats and amazing feet have propelled him into the stratosphere […]

Lil Buck transcends all genres, from street to stage.   Photo of Lil Buck by Jayme Thorton.   At a recent gala in New York, the young jookin’ sensation Lil Buck glided out of the wings, propelling himself sideways with subtle, liquid movements of his ankles to the opening bars of DJ Shadow’s meditative “Building […]

Big Dancing in Small Parks  NEW YORK CITY  SummerStage is back, offering free outdoor performances in all five boroughs. This month, the Francesca Harper Project performs Harper’s Modo Fusion: Art Prototype, a foray into the world of beauty pageants that fuses dance with music and film in the East River Park, Aug. 16. In a […]

There’s a moment in this just-released short film—featuring David Hallberg, that prince of princes—that really resonates. He grabs his left knee, then right, then right ankle, then left, with a kind of testing touch to make sure that everything is responsive. It’s a nod to a dancer’s relationship with his or her body, that all-powerful […]

Tonight’s “Dance Against Cancer” gala, organized by Daniel Ulbricht and Erin Fogarty, offers an incredible array of dance stars: NYCB’s Ashley Bouder, Maria Kowroski, Tiler Peck, Robert Fairchild, Wendy Whelan, and Daniel Ulbricht; ABT’s Misty Copeland and Herman Cornejo; Ailey’s Alicia Graf Mack and Matthew Rushing; and Lar Lubovitch’s Clifton Brown.   Maria Kochetkova and […]

At Youth America Grand Prix’s “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” gala last night, the performances, as expected, were spectacular. (We are dying to see McGregor’s full Borderlands. And three acts of Dorothée Gilbert’s Juliet. And more of the positively sunny Teresa Reichlen whom we saw last night.) In the first act, we […]

Tonight, everything culminates for 350 international student finalists as they compete for the top awards of the Youth America Grand Prix. (Dancers who have been in their shoes? Sarah Lane, Beckanne Sisk, Whitney Jensen, and Lauren Lovette—just to name a few.) In addition to winning medals and scholarships, some students will earn a coveted spotlight […]

Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother. Photo by Gabriele Zucca, Courtesy Hofesh Shechter Company. Politically Hofesh When it had its London premiere two years ago, our reviewer was astounded by Hofesh Shechter’s unpredictable, near-chaotic piece for 10 dancers, Political Mother. Describing the work by this Israeli-born choreographer, Barbara Newman cited the shadowy figures, animal instincts, and “frenzy […]