“Rhapsody” (excerpts), “Canto Ostinato,” Petrushka,” “Rennie Harris Funkedified’ (excerpt)
Fall for Dance, Program 4
New York City Center
New York, New York
October 11, 2018
Fall for Dance is known for the variety of its programs, but Number Four, seen on Thursday, felt like whiplash as it changed from one offering to the next. Yet when all was said and done, there were relationships to be found among the works, which started with classical ballet and ended with hip
“Ballet,” “Pamplona Stones,” “Working Title”
Trisha Brown Dance Company
BAM Fisher
Brooklyn, New York
October 10-13, 2018
Carolyn Lucas and Diane Madden, who are the directors of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, seem to be making all the right decisions on how to proceed after the founder’s death eighteen months ago. Last year the company presented a splendid concert of late Brown works at Jacob’s Pillow, and at BAM Fisher this week the group showed earlier pieces with
“Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done”
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
September 16, 2018 – February 3, 2019
The canonic status of the Judson Dance Theater was secured nearly forty years ago with Sally Banes’ two studies, “Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-modern Dance” and “Democracy’s Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964.” The handsome exhibition that the Museum of Modern Art has mounted does not question Judson’s place in the canon, although in certain details it expands
New York City Ballet
“Allegro Brillante,” “Easy,” “Carousel (A Dance),” “La Sylphide”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
September 29, 2018
To say that Saturday evening’s New York City Ballet program was varied would be an under- statement. It ranged from “La Sylphide,” a nineteenth century romantic tragedy, to Justin Peck’s “Easy,” a rambunctious contemporary dance party. As it turned out, the new tended to overshadow the old.
“Easy,” which was premiered last spring as part
New York City Ballet
“Jewels”
New York City Ballet
David Koch Theater
New York, New York
September 23, 2018
New York City Ballet presented performances of George Balanchine’s “Jewels” over the past week, with a young cast taking major roles in the “Emeralds” section on Sunday. Each of the three ballets that makes up “Jewels” shows a different aspect of Balanchine’s major stylistic interests. “Diamonds” looks to his Russian heritage, “Rubies” to his American experience, and “Emeralds” to a neo-romantic mode that
Stars of American Ballet
Ted Shawn Theater
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Becket, MA
August 26, 2018
New York City Ballet has spent much of 2018 celebrating the centenary of Jerome Robbins, who was long associated with the company as a choreographer and ballet master. It is not surprising, then, that Daniel Ulbricht, a principal NCYB dancer, would want to continue the celebratory mood when he took his concert group, Stars of American Ballet, on the road this summer. The
“Paramodernities”
NettaYerushalmy
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Jacob’s Pillow, MA
August 11, 2018
Netta Yerushalmy’s “Paramodernities,” presented at Jacob’s Pillow on Saturday, is a hugely ambitious work, a three-and-a-half-hour marathon of what the Pillow billed as a deconstruction and re-examination of works by six major modernist choreographers: Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Bob Fosse, and George Balanchine. Taking on any one of these artists would be challenging, dealing with six seems a little
Mark Morris Dance Group
“Love Song Waltzes, “I Don’t Want to Love,” “The Trout”
Mostly Mozart Festival
Rose Theater, Lincoln Center
New York, New York
August 9, 2018
Two of the three works being offered this weekend by the Mark Morris Dance Group for the Mostly Mozart Festival have to do with love: “Love Song Waltzes” from 1989 and “I Don’t Want to Love” from 1996. The third work, “The Trout” a world premiere set to Schubert’