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This Whitney Biennial Exhibit Spotlights the Labor, Mastery and Discipline of Ballet Dancers

It sounds like a ballet dancer’s worst nightmare: hold extensions and splits for a prolonged period, improvise in a cage and on a rope, and execute a ballet barre to performance standards. Do it with no music, wearing just a leotard and tights for an audience that’s only two feet away, staring at every move. […]

Avichai Scher For Pointe Magazine June 4th, 2019

Dancers Are Choreographers, Too. It's Time for Dance Criticism to Reflect That.

Dancers are more than just vessels performing set material. We make contributions to creative processes all the time. Some of these are obvious: We often improvise material or generate entire phrases to be incorporated into a work. Others are more innocuous: Dancers are sometimes asked to give feedback that ends up shaping the composition of […]

Benedict Nguyen April 29th, 2018
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