The Elks Lodge, Newport, RI.October 20, 2024. The magic of concert dance can lie in dancers filling a stage, releasing and regaining...
The Gem Theater, Kansas City, MO.August 10, 2024 (viewed virtually). Spinning top turns, leaps in full flight, impossibly fast and complex gestures…that...
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.November 6, 2024. “Love, resilience, guts, generosity and expansion” were the themes of the night at...
The 92nd Street Y, New York, NY.October 18, 2024. Dual Rivet, the contemporary company directed by Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith, performed...
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.October 15, 2024. vildwerk. premiered its inaugural season on October 15th and 16th at the El...
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.September 28, 2024. BalletX, the contemporary ballet company based in Philadelphia, performed a five-day run at the...
New York City Center, New York, NY.September 21, 2024. In the NYC dance world, nothing signifies the change from summer to autumn...
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, NY.September 14, 2024. The Juilliard School presented its first ever Fall Festival in September with live...
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY.September 10, 2024. What happens when you take club dancing, turn it into choreography, and then put...
Mass Motion Dance, Brighton, MA.July 13, 2024 (viewed digitally). Sometimes dance succeeds on an aesthetic/kinesthetic level – offering something that’s pleasing to...
Advocacy and activism through art is nothing new – but Artists Climate Collective demonstrates a dynamic and forward-thinking model for such work....
Ballet RI’s Blackbox Theater, Providence, RI.August 25, 2024. There’s an unfortunate stereotype of contemporary concert dance: erudite, insular, inaccessible to the average...
Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 17, 2024. There I was again: sitting on the lawn at Newport, RI’s Great Friends Meeting...
David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY.July 30, 2024. For the fourth summer in a row, five of NYC’s most iconic dance...
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.July 28, 2024. Woman in Motion (WIM), the all-female company led by Rachel Thalman and Laura Kaufman,...
RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI.July 21, 2024. If you’re from Rhode Island, you’ve heard all the small state jokes (and, in all fairness,...
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA (viewed virtually).June 22, 2024. Often when I review dance, I perceive a theme that connects the...
The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York, NY.July 12, 2024. Ain’t Done Bad, the new dance theater production conceived, directed, choreographed and...