"Mary, Queen of Scots”
Scottish Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
June 4, 2026
In a regrettably brief five-performance run, Scottish Ballet brought New York a work that was, above all else, generously inventive — a history play filtered through a dying mind, where fact and fever dream shared equal billing. While the life of Mary Stuart is not a topic of any kind of regular discussion in these lands, the love, care and detail with which the
New York City Ballet
"Opus 19/The Dreamer,” “Standard Deviation,” “Symphonie Espagnole”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
May 17, 2026 (matinee), May 28, 2026
For her much-promoted sophomore piece at NYCB – “Symphonie Espagnole” to Éduard Lalo’s eponymous music – Tiler Peck said she wanted to go big, filling the stage with dancers. By coincidence or design, the two works accompanying the buzzed-about creation – Jerome Robbins's "Opus 19/The Dreamer" and Alysa Pires's "Standard
New York City Ballet
"Divertimento No. 15,” “Zakouski,” “Composer’s Holiday,” “Heatscape”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
May 26, 2026
If nothing else, a program that started with George Balanchine's enthralling "Divertimento No. 15" and ended with Justin Peck's "Heatscape" showed how far away from its foundation the company has traveled with its repertory. The distance was thrown into sharp relief by what came between: Peter Martins's "Zakouski," which felt experimental by comparison, and
New York City Ballet
"Concerto Barocco,” “The Goldberg Variations”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
May 16, 2026
There is a particular clarity that comes when NYCB programs its two founders together, and when they share a single composer, the company's bedrocks come into clear focus. The All Bach evening set Balanchine's stripped-down, mathematically precise “Concerto Barocco” against Robbins's studied and at times theatrical “Goldberg Variations” – one choreographer distilling Bach's nuance in movement,
"La Bayadere (Pas D’Action),” “Variations For Three,” “An American in Paris,” “Saudade,” “Cornbread,” "Cerulean Skies," “Grand Pas Classique,” “The Weeping Willow,” “Bernstein in a Bubble”
ABT Studio Company
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
May 13, 2026
In a program of varied works, the ABT Studio Company showed a bench of talent ready to outjump, outturn and technically eclipse the main company’s roster. The artistry and emotional range of these young dancers still need work, but the
The Royal Ballet
“Untitled, 2023,” “Yugen,” “Quantum Souls”
Wayne McGregor: Alchemies
The Royal Ballet
The Royal Opera House
London, United Kingdom
May 1, 2026
Most creators, even of the genius sort, cannot produce exclusively masterpieces, and The Royal Ballet’s evening of three Wayne McGregor works titled “Alchemies” was an example of that humbling notion: a sampling of ballets from the creative incubator that generates great art, united by musical experimentation and abstraction, but ultimately unable to fully alchemize into gold. On
“Quinto Elemento: The Fifth Element”
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
April 21, 2026
The program presented by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at The Joyce Theater was no doubt not intended to coincide with humanity's historic return to the Moon — NASA's Artemis II lunar flyby, which carried astronauts farther into space than any humans had traveled in over fifty years, completed just weeks before opening night — but its celestial themes resonated all the more
“Vuela”
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras
Flamenco Festival
New York City Center
New York, NY
March 5, 2026
With truly great artists, it is often impossible to pinpoint the precise source of their magic. Is it the way Sara Baras's fingers slow as they curl into floreo – that signature hand flourish of flamenco – the way she fires off rhythms with machine-gun precision, or the way she suspends motion entirely, lifting her skirt in breathless anticipation before the movement arrives?
“Romeo & Juliet Suite”
L.A. Dance Project
Festival: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Park Avenue Armory
New York, NY
March 2, 2026
You could see what Benjamin Millepied was going for with his version of “Romeo and Juliet.” An immersive, hybrid-medium reimagining of the greatest love story ever told – Sergei Prokofiev’s score abridged, every corner of Park Avenue Armory's Gothic grandeur weaponized, plot trimmed to its central characters and live performance spliced with real-
New York City Ballet
"Dances at a Gathering,” “Diamonds”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
February 27, 2026
What a joy it must have been to be alive and a patron of New York City Ballet in the 1960s, the decade when the company premiered Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering” and George Balanchine’s “Jewels.” Now, in 2026, as the company danced both works – the Robbins complete, the Balanchine represented by its final act, "Diamonds" – to
Gala Flamenca
Flamenco Festival
New York City Center
New York, NY
February 26, 2026
The Flamenco Festival opened its 25th year at City Center with a gala featuring four of the dance form's greats – Eva Yerbabuena, Manuel Liñán, El Farru, and the young Juan Tomás de la Molía – painting a story of rich traditions and deep passions over a series of individual vignettes. Running at over two hours with no intermission, it was a formidable tale poignantly punctuated
“Ebony Magazine: to a Village,” “Clear As Tear Water,” “Gatekeepers,” “Upside Down”
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
February 25, 2026
Program A of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE's weeklong run at The Joyce Theater was, at its heart, a celebration – of collaboration, of community, and of Wunmi Olaiya (who goes by Wunmi), the London-born, Lagos-raised musician and designer whose music, costumes, and creative vision have been woven into the EVIDENCE aesthetic for decades.