Dance Informa Magazine
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2.4KReviewsSoulfulness in motion: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Fall 2021 All Access Season
Various premiere dates.Available streaming at Ailey All Access. Movement has the potential to convey soulfulness — the strength and resilience, the depths...
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1.5KReviewsSpring on the way: Martha Graham Dance Company’s Fall 2021 Season at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.October 31, 2021. I sat in my seat at the Joyce Theater, my first time back in...
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1.3KReviewsWelcome to Campfire’s ‘SUBJECT’: The depths of humanity in unimaginable circumstances
Memredux Laboratories, New York, NY. November 9, 2021. In SUBJECT, produced by Welcome to Campfire, sparse, concrete space surrounds a brightly fluorescent lit glass-walled...
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1.2KReviewsCohesive meaning in the abstract: Festival Ballet Providence’s ‘Continuing Points’
Woodman Arts and Community Center, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI.October 24, 2021. Abstraction comes with compelling mystery; sometimes the answers are more...
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1.2KReviewsThe spirits of places: Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s ‘Initiation — In Love Solidarity’
Harvard Smith Center, Cambridge, MA, and via livestream.October 21, 2021. Wind rustling through leaves, the smell of saltwater at the seashore, the...
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1.5KFeature ArticlesShannon Maynor and Alessandro Paganelli release first of 5 dance films
Dancer Shannon Maynor and composer Alessandro Paganelli have released dance film Nuda Veritas, the first part of Five Movements, a series of dance...
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1.3KFeature ArticlesGearing up for ‘The Nutcracker’
Halloween is now over, which means spooky season has come to a close and we’re officially in the run up to the...
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1.4KReviewsIt takes a village: Island Moving Company’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘La Palomba/Ascending’
October 17, 2021.The Lawn at Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a live performance....
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1.9KFeature ArticlesBoston Ballet launches online content hub ÜNI
Boston Ballet gave birth to its latest creative venture recently with the launch of ÜNI, an online performance content hub, free to all....
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1.8KFeature ArticlesBrooklyn Ballet puts culture and diversity center stage with ‘The Brooklyn Nutcracker’
Brooklyn Ballet, a unique and interdisciplinary dance company rooted in the classical idiom, presents two performances of The Brooklyn Nutcracker, at the majestic Kings Theatre in Flatbush,...
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1.9KTop StoriesComplexions Contemporary Ballet opens 27th season with live performances at The Joyce Theater
Complexions Contemporary Ballet (Complexions) returns to live performance at The Joyce Theater from November 16-28. Now in its 27th season, the company...
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1.4KFeature ArticlesPEAK Performances presents Stefanie Batten Bland’s ‘Look Who’s Coming to Dinner’
PEAK Performances presents Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland’s dance theater work, Look Who’s Coming to Dinner, November 4-7, at Montclair State University (MSU)’s Alexander Kasser Theater. Inspired by...
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1.8KTop StoriesWhen to Watch World Ballet Day
The world’s top ballet companies come togetherto celebrate dance Tomorrow, Tuesday October 19, World Ballet Day returns for its eighth year, giving...
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2.4KReviewsThe conviction and commitment of artists using their platform: Artists Climate Collective’s ‘Art to Action’
Available through artistsclimatecollective.org. August 31-September 28, 2021. Artists naturally have a platform; they can speak through their work. Some use that platform to...
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1.6KReviewsDance diving deep into the stories of history: Rachel Linsky’s ‘Hidden’
Virtual premiere via Zoom.September 12, 2021. Tense muscles, heavy bones, churning and rumbling stomachs, heads swimming with pain and nausea: deprivation, psychosocial...
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2.6KFeature ArticlesCredit the Creator: An Instagram account for accountability
Do you know who choreographed the handshake in The Parent Trap? No? What about the Jingle Bell Rock dance from Mean Girls? You might...
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2.2KFeature ArticlesCelebrity Dance and the 2021 Senior Crew presents ‘Together We Return’
The 2021 Celebrity Senior Crew, led by the vision of Ashlé Dawson, created a concept video that displays the unimaginable year-and-a-half we...
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1.7KFeature ArticlesSó Dança’s BE YOU Collection: Embracing each dancer’s individuality
Every dancer is an individual and has special, unique attributes that help them stand out. Whether it is during a stage performance...
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2.2KFeature ArticlesStepping forward into the unknown, from the unknown: Has COVID crushed the arts?
When COVID effectively shut down the world in March of 2020, no one knew what would happen next or how long it...
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2.2KInterviewsEthan Stiefel brings American Repertory Ballet back home
It’s been one long intermission since American Repertory Ballet (ARB) last performed in a theater, in front of an audience. COVID paused the...
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1.9KFeature ArticlesBack on stage: NYCB, Ailey, Taylor and A.I.M dancers discuss
Working remotely has been a strange experience for dancers. As we get back to life in person, we’ve caught up with four dancers from four major...
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1.7KFeature Articles‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is coming to San Jose
San Jose Dance Theatre Company is excited to relaunch live theater with the classical ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, choreographed by Artistic Director...
