“Ekstasis,” “Panorama,” “Histoire,” “The Rite of Spring”
Martha Graham Dance Company
City Center, New York, NY
April 14, 2018

In an elegant program that started at the most essential, then wove into the complex, the Martha Graham Company offered a program that was pure Martha. All of the works, from the 1933 solo, “Ekstasis,” to Graham’s mature 1984 “The Rite of Spring,” offered Graham’s signature body geometry, the breath, fists, and sweeping kicks creating scenes and stories of

“Apollo,” “Concerto DSCH” and “La Valse”
Miami City Ballet
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Miami, Florida
April 13, 2018

Artistic director, Lourdes Lopez addressed the audience before the start of Miami City Ballet’s Program IV and recalled the trajectory of the 2017-2018 season that began with Balanchine’s Emeralds, saw the company’s first post-modern ballet in Brian Brooks’ “One Line Drawn” as well as an all Robbins celebration. The night opened

“The Choreographic Process”
with Alexei Ratmansky
Studio 5
New York City Center
April 16, 2018

When “the” is inserted in front of phrases like “the creative process” or “the choreographic process,” the implication is that there is only one process, to which artists conform. In fact, there are as many such processes as there are artists. How an artist approaches his or her medium is deeply personal and likely to be as unique as handwriting or fingerprints. American Ballet Theatre’

“The Resilience Project”
ClancyWorks Dance Company
Dance Place
Washington, DC
April 14, 2018

“The Resilience Project,” performed at Dance Place this past weekend by ClancyWorks Dance Company, investigated how an individual responds to and recovers from a blow. The show included additional performances from the Dance Place Repertory Class and The Ensemble from the University of Bedfordshire, and incorporated dancers with a variety of technical levels to offer a diversity of movement approaches, all relating to the theme of resilience.

"Charm", "Rapid Oxidation", "Shanti"
Tom Gold Dance
The Kay Playhouse at Hunter College
New York, New York
April 10, 2018

Tom Gold, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet, celebrated the tenth year of his chamber company with a brief New York season showing three of his works, including one premiere, "Rapid Oxidation". As a dancer, Gold was noted for his outgoing, engaging personality and his scrupulous but never flashy technique and he has brought these gifts, along

"Shoot the Moon", "The Statement", "Singulière Odyssée"
Nederlands Dans Theater
Opera House
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
April 5, 2018

This past Thursday, the Nederlands Dans Theater offered a thrilling program, delivering a riveting intensity to the Kennedy Center stage. In three ballets, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Léon, as Artistic Director and Advisor respectively, presented lively, modern stories and showcased a performance full of current relevance and intrigue. Since 1959, NDT has

"Nijinsky"
National Ballet of Canada
War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco, CA
April 3, 2018

John Neumeier’s 2000 “Nijinsky”, excellently performed by the National Ballet of Canada, is certainly a sui generis extravaganza – a mixture of psychodrama and Cecil B. DeMille. Neumeier is a brilliant designer. His costumes veered from the Edwardian for the hotel guests to modernist flapper ones and reconstructions from Ballets Russes ballets. The two-part set –- secessionist touches for the Suvretta Hotel and