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• He Sings. He Dances. He Creates a Sense of the Otherworldly.

  08-10-2019 20:22 via nytimes.com
  The genre- and gender-bending French choreographer François Chaignaud wants the audience to have a more intense relationship to dance.
  
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• Ushio Amagatsu, Japanese Dancer Who Popularized Butoh, Dies at 74

  15-04-2024 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction.
  
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• In City Ballet’s Coming Season, New Works and Earlier Curtain Times

  15-04-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  New York City Ballet will present a mix of old and new works, including premieres by Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Caili Quan, and introduce fewer intermissions.
  
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• At Harlem Stage, Bringing Downtown Dance Uptown

  15-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As Harlem Stage’s E-Moves dance series turns 25, Bill T. Jones and other major choreographers discuss its impact on Black dance in New York.
  
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• Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Is in New (and Capable) Hands

  12-04-2024 17:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The company performed its first New York City Center season under the direction of Robert Garland in a program including George Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.”
  
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• JoJo Siwa Tries to Grow Up With ‘Karma,’ Her New Single

  10-04-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  (Or tries to.)
  
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• Beth Gill’s Autobiographical ‘Nail Biter’ Gets a New York City Premiere

  10-04-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Nail Biter,” a New York City premiere, this exacting choreographer explores her ballet roots and how to be in her body now.
  
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• Dianne McIntyre, 77, Dances at New Apollo Stages

  09-04-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Dianne McIntyre presents “In the Same Tongue,” a dance she calls “an artistic history of myself,” at the new Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater.
  
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• A Protest Set to Banjo: Jamar Roberts’s Dance for Hard Times

  08-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “We the People,” Roberts’s first dance for the Martha Graham Dance Company, finds the rage and resistance hidden in an upbeat score by Rhiannon Giddens.
  
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• Review: Nederlands Dans Theater at New York City Center

  04-04-2024 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Under the artistic leadership of Emily Molnar, Nederlands Dans Theater returned to New York City Center with a less than stellar triple bill.
  
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• Review: A Tribute to the Jazz Great Max Roach Meets His Standards

  04-04-2024 18:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
  
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• Review: Millepied and Muhly, Partners in Space and Sound

  01-04-2024 20:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
  
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• For 50 Years, Ailey II Has Been a Proving Ground

  01-04-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved, it has trained dancers and choreographers for tenacity as much as technique.
  
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• Lorraine Graves, Pioneering Harlem Ballerina, Dies at 66

  31-03-2024 17:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Tall and commanding, she dazzled audiences as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two decades.
  
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• A Look at Washington State’s ‘Strippers’ Bill of Rights’

  30-03-2024 15:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee, the legislation provides wide-ranging protections for adult dancers.
  
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• Review: ‘A Pledge, a Plea and a Love Letter’ to Africa

  29-03-2024 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Until the Lion Tells the Story…,” Lacina Coulibaly walks in his ancestors’ footsteps.
  
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• Review: An Age-Old Riddle Ginned Up for Postapocalyptic Times

  29-03-2024 18:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographers Baye & Asa usher the Sphinx puzzler into a vaguely menacing landscape.
  
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• Review: A New Dance at Trisha Brown Examines the Act of a Fall

  27-03-2024 16:53 via nytimes.com
  
  The Trisha Brown Dance Company returned to the Joyce Theater with an enthralling premiere by the French choreographer Noé Soulier.
  
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• “The White Feather” Looks at the Birth and Death of Ballet in Iran

  25-03-2024 18:17 via nytimes.com
  
  A new work, “The White Feather” is inspired by the history of the Iranian National Ballet, which went dark during the Islamic Revolution and was never revived.
  
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• Watch Alexei Ratmansky’s Dance for NYC Ballet, a Reaction to the War in Ukraine

  25-03-2024 15:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Click through as Joseph Gordon performs a section from Alexei Ratmansky’s new dance for New York City Ballet, a reaction to the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
  
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• Allison Holker Is Dancing Through the Ups and Downs

  25-03-2024 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The performer stopped dancing after the death of her husband, Stephen Boss. Now she’s a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance,” the show where they met.
  
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• How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Bayadère’? Send In the Cowboys.

  23-03-2024 17:11 via nytimes.com
  
  A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones.
  
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• Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Is Dead at 95

  22-03-2024 04:12 via nytimes.com
  
  With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was one half of a celebrated, and sometimes denounced, interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s.
  
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• Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Dies at 95

  21-03-2024 19:22 via nytimes.com
  
  With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was one half of a celebrated (and sometimes denounced) interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s
  
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• Review: Looking for Love With Burt Bacharach, and Finding a Prayer

  21-03-2024 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Mark Morris’s “The Look of Love” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is uneven, but you can’t fight its swing.
  
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• ‘Illinoise,’ a Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical, Is Moving to Broadway

  19-03-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.
  
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• Emma Portner’s Busy Ballet Era

  19-03-2024 10:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer, who has spent her career mixing genres and disciplines, comes to ballet with an eye on its sometimes calcified gender relations.
  
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• On the Menu at Flamenco Fest, Tradition With a Side of Nuttiness

  18-03-2024 19:17 via nytimes.com
  
  At City Center, performers like Olga Pericet and Manuel Liñán knew the rules they were bending.
  
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• Irish Dance for All Levels, All Bodies, All Genders

  15-03-2024 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.
  
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• American Ballet Theater Names Dance Veteran as Executive Director

  14-03-2024 16:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Barry Hughson, a leader at the National Ballet of Canada, will join the company as it tries to get beyond financial woes.
  
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