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• The North to Shore Festival Comes to New Jersey

  02-06-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new arts festival featuring local and marquee-name talent is coming to the Garden State.
  
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• ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance

  02-06-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Mack, whom one student called an agent of change, wants to “create a place where people feel like themselves” — and a model for the professional world.
  
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• Coming to City Center: ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Titanic’ and the 20th Fall for Dance

  31-05-2023 18:13 via nytimes.com
  
  Also among next season’s highlights: Encores! revivals of “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Jelly’s Last Jam,” and dance works from Pam Tanowitz and Lyon Opera Ballet.
  
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• For Brian Henry, Finding Krump ‘Felt Like Home, but a Better Version’

  30-05-2023 23:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The dancer, also known as HallowDreamz, is the face of krump in New York. Now he’s found another artistic home with the choreographer Andrea Miller.
  
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• A Surprising Stage for Dance: The Subway Platform

  30-05-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The tap dancer Ja’Bowen brings his art underground, where kids learn steps, commuters dance along and his energizing performances are bursts of joy.
  
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• Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet

  29-05-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A flurry of debuts. The return of Sara Mearns. Performances that lingered after the curtain fell. Here are the highlights from a packed spring season.
  
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• Exploring the Majesty and Mystery of Sor Juana in Dance

  26-05-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Michelle Manzaneles’s new work for Ballet Hispánico is, she says, “a way of going personal through another person’s story.”
  
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• Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn

  25-05-2023 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  The festival hosts the National Dance Company of Ghana at the Brooklyn Academy. “You’re getting the best of all the dances.”
  
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• Australia Remembers Tina Turner With the Nutbush

  25-05-2023 14:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The Nutbush, set to its eponymous song and sometimes considered an unofficial national dance, is popular with all ages and has taken on special significance after the singer’s death.
  
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• Australian Boot-Scooters Break ‘Nutbush’ World Record

  25-05-2023 10:15 via nytimes.com
  
  More than 4,000 people danced to Tina Turner’s hit, ‘Nutbush City Limits,’ at the 2022 Birdsville Big Red Bash festival, setting a new record.
  
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• Review: These Rites of Spring Push Back at Ruthlessness

  24-05-2023 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo’s “The Sacrifice,” at the Joyce Theater, responds to Pina Bausch.
  
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• How Art Can Improve Your Mental Health

  22-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Drawing, music and writing can elevate your mood. Here are some easy ways to welcome them into your life.
  
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• Review: Gibney Mines a Too-Familiar Contemporary Dance Mode

  18-05-2023 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  With a premiere by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond at the Joyce, Gibney Company builds on its repertoire but doesn’t enhance it.
  
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• Meet Bob’s Dance Shop, ‘World-Class Vibe Curators’

  16-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The group brings the inclusive spirit of viral dance challenges out into the fresh air with its joyfully queer “flash Bobs.”
  
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• Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season

  11-05-2023 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After 15 years, New York City Ballet revives “Brandenburg,” the choreographer’s final ballet, with a sparkling new cast.
  
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• Review: Absences, S-Curves and Wonderful Asymmetries

  10-05-2023 20:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Two South Asian dance troupes, Nrityagram and Chitrasena, exemplars of different styles, team up for a program at the Joyce Theater.
  
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• Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind

  09-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an art form that leaves few tangible traces, performers often become collectors of mementos from their careers. A lucky few find an archival home for their treasures.
  
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• Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs

  08-05-2023 20:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Juliana May’s “Family Happiness” at Abrons Arts Center at times feels like a punishing exercise.
  
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• Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage

  08-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The annual spectacle, featuring fanciful caravans and riders on horseback, and is arguably the most potent visual representation of Andalusian culture.
  
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• Preserving Hula, the Heartbeat of Hawaii at the Merrie Monarch Festival

  07-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For 60 years, the Merrie Monarch Festival has contributed to the reclamation of Hawaiian culture, language and identity.
  
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• Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque

  06-05-2023 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  As in ballet, the coronation provided spectacle and beauty tempered by discipline and focus.
  
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• ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet

  06-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His exuberant “Brandenburg,” which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail.
  
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• Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce

  05-05-2023 22:36 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Yes and Yes,” at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to “Ulysses,” true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.
  
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• Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New

  05-05-2023 20:42 via nytimes.com
  
  The spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.
  
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• Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World

  05-05-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of “I as another,” a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
  
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• The Painter Who Inspired a New Ballet

  03-05-2023 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  For Christopher Wheeldon’s return to New York City Ballet, he asked the artist Kylie Manning not just for backdrops and costumes but to, as he says, “form a dance within her world.”
  
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• Review: At Trisha Brown, a New Voice With a Family Resemblance

  03-05-2023 20:20 via nytimes.com
  
  A premiere by Judith Sánchez Ruíz goes its own way but, like Brown’s work, shows an active, questioning mind and a sensual physicality.
  
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• Chris Wheeldon’s ‘Dangerous and Exciting’ Adventure at City Ballet

  03-05-2023 16:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Wheeldon is back at New York City Ballet, where he honed his choreographic skills, making a non-narrative work set to Schoenberg.
  
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• ‘Dancin’’ to Close on Broadway, a Casualty of Tony Nominations

  03-05-2023 00:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The production, a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, received no Tony nominations on Tuesday. Its last show will be Sunday.
  
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• When La Scala Is Sold Out, You Can Still Get In (Online)

  02-05-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The opera house’s new streaming service provides live and on-demand performances, as well as extras like backstage glimpses and educational programs.
  
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• When Sleep Becomes an Art Form

  01-05-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an age of burnout, artists are discovering that one of the most radical forms of resistance is rest.
  
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• Stud Country, a Queer Line Dancing and Two-Step Class, Makes a Return to New York

  29-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Stud Country, a queer line dancing and two-step class from Los Angeles, made a rollicking return to New York on a recent Monday.
  
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• Review: Where a Boxer’s Clinch Is a Slow-Dance Embrace

  28-04-2023 18:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Shamel Pitts’s “Touch of Red,” at New York Live Arts, takes place in a boxing ring. It’s not a competition, though. It’s a relationship.
  
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• The Wild Life and Times of a Soon-to-Be Former City Ballet Dancer

  28-04-2023 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Harrison Ball is retiring. After battling addiction, he is engaged to Zac Posen, serious about acting and grateful for his career.
  
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• The Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War

  25-04-2023 19:37 via nytimes.com
  
  After the invasion of Ukraine, Ratmansky cut ties with Russian ballet companies. But he says they’re still using his work.
  
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• At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change

  25-04-2023 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Bobbi Jene Smith’s “Broken Theater” is perhaps the most high-profile offering at La MaMa Moves!, but other programs were just as memorable.
  
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• Review: Dancing With the Flowers and Douglas Dunn

  25-04-2023 19:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer collaborates with the designer Mimi Gross in “Garden Party,” a whimsical celebration of spring that hints at loss.
  
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• At Trisha Brown, a New Voice Creates a ‘Symphony of Layers’

  25-04-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Trisha Brown Dance Company branches out beyond its founder’s work with its first commission: Judith Sánchez Ruíz’s “Let’s Talk About Bleeding.”
  
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• How Fred again.. Jolted Dance Music

  24-04-2023 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation about the genre’s new wave of big-tent ambition, and the whimsical British artist at the heart of it.
  
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• Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment

  24-04-2023 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Kathy Westwater’s dances at the Chocolate Factory, “Revolver” and “Choreomaniacs,” build on her focused movement investigations of the last 20 years.
  
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• Len Goodman, ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Judge, Dies at 78

  24-04-2023 15:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Goodman, who was also a longtime judge on the British show “Strictly Come Dancing,” was known for his wry humor, wit and colorful phrases.
  
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• Len Goodman, Judge of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ Dies at 78

  24-04-2023 13:47 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Goodman, who was also a longtime judge on the British show “Strictly Come Dancing,” was known for his wry humor and colorful phrases and delivery.
  
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• Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine

  23-04-2023 20:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The company presented two large-scale works, one inspired by the French protests of 1968, and the other a response to a lost Merce Cunningham work, at NYU Skirball.
  
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• Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament

  21-04-2023 21:49 via nytimes.com
  
  A dancer with a singularly theatrical presence, she was best known for her long collaboration with her husband, the choreographer David Gordon.
  
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• Poised for Change at a Company Where Dancers of Color Feel at Home

  21-04-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three senior dancers at Dance Theater of Harlem reflect on working with Virginia Johnson, who is stepping down as its leader.
  
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• Benjamin Millepied Uses Movement to Reinvent ‘Carmen’ on Camera

  21-04-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer is trying his hand at filmmaking with an experiment that merges drama, dance and music.
  
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• An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’

  21-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new generation of choreographers, obsessed with composition and costumes, experiments at Pageant in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
  
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• Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form

  20-04-2023 19:56 via nytimes.com
  
  A decade after its rebirth, the company is assured and radiant in a challenging Balanchine and a moody piece set to James Blake’s electronic soul music.
  
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• ‘Carmen’ Review: We’re Not in Spain Anymore

  20-04-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s directing debut is an of-the-moment but scattered take on a classic love story.
  
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• What a Playwright and Tap Dancer Are Teaching Each Other

  20-04-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The playwright and actress doesn’t think of the tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman as a mentee — because she’s learning from her, too.
  
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