Dancers, vibrantly attired and nearly floating, skipped across the gallery floor at the Whitney Museum of American Art. With what at first seemed like a bow to the floor but was really a slow slide, they lowered with willful splendor into the splits. Their arms drifted out to either side with steely resolve to the … Read more
The Martha Graham Dance Company, one of New York’s most storied troupes, will celebrate its centenary next year. And for its birthday it has lined up a momentous gift: a gleaming new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. The company announced on Friday that it would leave its offices in the West Village of Manhattan and relocate … Read more
If Christopher Gattelli’s choreography looks familiar, that’s probably the point. A veteran of more than 20 Broadway shows and a devotee of movie musicals, he has an encyclopedic dance brain, a catalog of musical theater references he deploys throughout his work onstage and onscreen. Homage is his calling card. And that makes him a very … Read more
It was at a residency held in 2022 in Kumbakonam, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, that he met the dancers he would cast in “Gigenis.” Four of the seven, including Khoo, specialize in Bharatanatyam, perhaps the most commonly practiced classical form. The youngest, Sirikalyani Adkoli, 18, is an Odissi dancer, a student at … Read more
The Palais Garnier in Paris is among the world’s oldest theaters that still functions more or less in its original state. And long before the appearance of the selfie-stick, the Garnier was a place not just to see art, but to be seen. At a 150th anniversary gala on Friday, before guests reach the marble … Read more
This is the 10th season that Malpaso Dance Company, the Cuban contemporary dance troupe based in Havana and founded in 2012, has come to the Joyce Theater. Malpaso is an associate company of Joyce Theater Productions, and the longevity of this international partnership is impressive. But with stability has come a certain predictability of style, … Read more
‘Your Love, Our Musical’ Feb. 14 at 10 p.m. at the Second City, 64 North Ninth Street, Brooklyn; secondcity.com. For Valentine’s Day, romance is the dominant theme at comedy clubs this weekend. A prime example is “Your Love, Our Musical,” featuring New York City’s top improvisers who use the real-life courtships of couples in the … Read more
Justin Peck’s newest work for New York City Ballet, his 25th, is called “Mystic Familiar,” a title that turns out to be telling. Those two words encapsulate the rise and fall of its aspirations and limitations. It’s a dance that tries to be mystic, but mostly it’s just familiar. The title is borrowed from an … Read more
That weightlessness, or the effect of it, is “what Romanticism was about,” Cordua said. “They all wanted to get to a higher sphere. I found it really interesting to see and meet people that do all those scary things that I don’t find so scary — these artists that do all these extreme things with … Read more
New York City Ballet dancers trickled onstage in mismatched sweatshirts, down vests, practice tutus and leg warmers at the start of a rehearsal for Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita.” They disappeared, then reappeared in sleek leotards and tights, crisscrossing the stage to mazurka-like music. Soon the whole coalesced in a great diagonal stretching downstage to upstage, … Read more