Dance
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Arts
Pushing the Body to Extremes to Find Serenity
Why do some people put their bodies through extreme acts? Why cross the Seine on a wire or climb a…
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News
Jack Anderson, Longtime Dance Critic for The Times, Dies at 88
He brought an all-embracing enthusiasm to about 4,000 articles for The New York Times on modern dance, tap, ballet and…
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Movement and Memory: Dance Love and Dance Rejection in Ireland
Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with his partner Rachel Poirier on “How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons,” coming…
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Review: Ballet Theater Revisits Its Past With a Hit and Two Misses
Susan Jaffe presents her first New York season as American Ballet Theater’s leader, starting with a program of Alexei Ratmansky,…
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A ‘Matrix’-Inspired Spectacle, With Little to Challenge the Mind
A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building’s possibilities, but doesn’t push…
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To Restore Order, a Troubled Dance Company Calls on a Storyteller
Christian Spuck, a choreographer of narrative ballets, has taken the helm at the Staatsballett Berlin after years of strife for…
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News
Rudy Perez, a Pioneer of Postmodern Dance, Is Dead at 93
In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn’t with choreography built…
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Arts
Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce
With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without…
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To Seize the Fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector Dance
They’ve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance…
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How to Command a Stage Without Great Dance Moves (Taylor’s Version)
The choreography on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour doesn’t ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use…