The crown jewel of flamenco in New York City is Soledad Barrio, star of Noche Flamenca. A 2015 Dance Magazine Award recipient, Barrio unleashes a pride so fierce it tips over into anger, arms that curl sinuously around her head and heels that jab into the floor at impossibly high speeds. In the new show […]

The coming weeks see not one, but two companies that can best be described as French cultural mash-ups landing at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Kader Attou – Compagnie Accrorap In The Roots‘ surreal world, a cast of 11 dancers pose quizzical tests for each other. Choreographer Kader Attou borrows from hip hop, mime, circus […]

Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to New York City’s Joyce Theater from November 14-26 with four new works as well as Star Dust, a ballet tribute to David Bowie. Enter below for a chance to win a pair of tickets to one of the shows. Loading…

The dancers of Dresden Semperoper Ballet have a reputation for applying exceptional classical technique to challenging contemporary choreography with aplomb. Audiences at the company’s New York City appearances can expect a whirlwind of impressive, emotionally stirring dancing. It’s a great opportunity to catch works by British choreographer David Dawson, whose fluid, hyperphysical movement vocabulary turns […]

Maguy Marin, one of France’s major choreographers, has a knack for taking us right up to the brink of cruelty. When she brought her startling—and at times bizarre—Umwelt to the Joyce in 2009, some audience members couldn’t take it and walked out. Stoked by a pounding electronic score and accelerating rhythmic steps, in BiT the […]

Summer festival season has arrived! From Bill T. Jones to Michelle Dorrance, Monica Bill Barnes to Marcelo Gomes, we got the inside scoop on where your faves will be appearing this year. American Dance Festival Mark Dendy Projects. Photo by Stephen Donovan, Courtesy ADF. It begins with Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s Museum Workout at […]

It’s fitting that choreographer Benjamin Millepied named a recent work On the Other Side. After a difficult two-year tenure as artistic director of the Paris Opéra Ballet, he is happily settled in Los Angeles and reemerging with big plans for L.A. Dance Project, the contemporary company he founded there in 2012. Today, his ambitious vision […]

During my company’s fledgling years, I remember emailing a promising venue in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, hoping to include them in my plans for an upcoming tour. Unfamiliar with the typical process of getting presented, I had no idea what I was in for. I hadn’t anticipated that it would take almost two years of persistent […]