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Ratmansky’s ‘Paquita’ Is a Bright and Tender Thing

It is evident that this piece is stretching the Company's dancers, pulling them in beautiful new directions.

08.02.2025 7

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Cuban Contemporary Dance Comes to The Joyce

Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company returns to New York for its tenth engagement at the historic theater.

24.01.2025 3

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Capturing Balanchine’s Ghost: An Interview With Dancer and Choreographer Emily Coates

Emily Coates with Derek Lucci. Photo courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Tomorrow (January 9), dancer and choreographer Emily Coates...

08.01.2025 4

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Ailey’s Angels: A Look at the Company’s New York City Center 2024 Season

Ailey’s Caroline Dartey and James Gilmer in Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish’s Me, Myself and You. Photo by ©Paul Kolnik Alvin Ailey American Dance...

24.12.2024 4

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Kyle Abraham On the Genesis of ‘Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful’

“Where will you be in five years?” This is the opening line of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s program note for his new evening-length work Dear Lord,...

04.12.2024 3

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Sparkling Gala Performance: Two World Premieres and a Classic

The Paul Taylor Dance Company has returned to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its annual fall season. Before last week’s gala...

14.11.2024 1

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Limón Dance Company at The Joyce: Dances Lost and Found

At a recent open rehearsal for the Limón Dance Company’s upcoming performances at The Joyce Theater, artistic director Dante Puleio told Observer...

05.11.2024 1

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Bill T. Jones’ ‘Still/Here’ Transcends Time and Space

“Notions of mortality never change,” Bill T. Jones recently told Observer. “We’re born, we grow and some of us will reproduce, and we will most...

30.10.2024 1

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

‘The Joffrey + Ballet in the U.S.’ Tells a Story Bigger Than Itself

In 2017, the Joffrey Ballet gave the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts close to a thousand bankers boxes overflowing with more than...

17.10.2024 1

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

‘Edges of Ailey’ Brings Dance to the Whitney

At the edge of Manhattan, in an 18,000-square-foot gallery on the fifth floor of a bright asymmetrical building, is the first large-scale...

16.10.2024 1

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

The Violent Beauty of Botis Seva’s BLKDOG

When the usher at the Joyce Theater handed me a program for the long-awaited U.S. premiere of British choreographer Botis Seva’s BLKDOG, he warned,...

12.10.2024 2