Dance
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Arts
Review: Parsons Dance Spins and Darts Through Miles Davis
For its Joyce season, the company unveils “Juke,” a spiky premiere by Jamar Roberts, along with dances by David Parsons…
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Arts
Review: Need Good Dances? Try Tharp
The Gibney Company’s program at the Joyce Theater includes two Twyla Tharp dances from the 1970s.
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Arts
What Does ‘Post-Emerging’ Look Like in Today’s Dance Landscape?
Fresh Tracks, at New York Live Arts, showcases early-career dance makers. This year’s talented crop wonders about next steps.
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News
Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Dance Theater of Harlem Star, Dies at 74
A founding dancer with the groundbreaking company, she served not only as a principal dancer but also as its first…
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Arts
Review: At New York City Ballet’s Gala, the Usual With a Twist
The two premieres — one by Justin Peck, one by Amy Hall Garner — were gala-style pieces that felt more…
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Arts
Love, War and the Refugee Crisis, Set to the Music of Sting
In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a…
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Books
These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail
THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…
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Arts
Review: Noche Flamenca, Raising the Dead With Goya
In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
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Arts
Saddling Up and Feeling Spry at Martha Graham
Under the banner “American Legacies,” the Martha Graham Dance Company dusted off a classic, “Rodeo,” premiered a companion piece and…
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News
Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear
In the studio, filled with light, I watch my boyfriend, the artist and choreographer Matty Davis, as he dances beside…