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Colorado Ballet Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY March 6, 2005 Ballet Aspen Santa Fe Joyce Theater, New York, NY March 8–13 Reviewed by Clive Barnes   If New Yorkers couldn’t get to the Rocky Mountains this ski season, then the Rocky Mountains came to New York, in the form of the […]

Jermaine Spinet in Robert Battle’s Base Line. Nan Melville, courtesy Julliard Dance Division Juilliard Dance Ensemble Juilliard Theater New York City February 23, 2002 By Joseph Carman If you look at the biographies of dancers from major international contemporary companies, you will find plenty of Juilliard graduates. The directors of those companies will tell you […]

Bonnie Oda Homsey and John Pennington retold modern dance history in Generation Next. Photo by Rose Eichenbaum, courtesy American Repertory Dance Company American Repertory Dance Company Schoenberg Hall, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California March 23?24, 2001 Reviewed by Donna Perlmutter Bonnie Oda Homsey’s brave little troupe, American Repertory Dance Company, has made […]

Pennylvania Ballet dancers donned Liz Prince?s retro-futuristic costumes for Trey McIntyre?s Plush. Photo by Paul Kolnik, courtesy Pennsylvania Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet The Merriam Theater Philadelphia, PA February 7?11, 2001 Reviewed by Lewis Whittington By the time viewers got to Plush, the much-anticipated Trey McIntyre premiere that closed an ambitious but skittish modern program from the […]

Margie Gillis and Bruce Wood in I Came So Far for Beauty. Photo by Mary Ann Fitipaldi Bruce Wood Dance Company Bass Performance Hall Fort Worth, Texas October 26, 1998 Reviewed by Margaret Putnam Everybody knows that dance funding is in a bad way, but the news hasn’t reached Bruce Wood. Dreamer that he is, […]

Yes, dance has spread throughout the world. But there are times, like this last stretch of March Madness, that New York still feels like the center of the dance world. The wonder for me was not that I saw eight dance events in one week, but that they were all exciting performances with crazy-good dancing. […]

  Deaths Pina Bausch (1940–2009) One of the giants of contemporary dance, Pina Bausch has influenced artists the world over. Her astonishing imagination, insights into human behavior, and innovative choreography have attracted audiences beyond the dance field.   Bausch understood the depths of despair as well as the laughter of absur­dity. In the early years […]

Feng-Yi Sheu Taking Up the Mantle of Martha “Go at your audience with a whip,” Louis Horst used to tell Martha Graham. When the Martha Graham Dance Company came to City Center last April, its second New York season since winning back the rights to its own repertory, the whip was in one body: Fang-Yi […]