Dance Magazine Posts
New Insights into Martha Graham
November 30, 2022
Modern Dance Legend Yuriko Dies at Age 102
March 14, 2022
Remembering David Gordon (1936–2022)
February 2, 2022
13 Gems From Stuart Hodes’ New Book on Martha Graham
April 4, 2021
It’s Time to Overhaul the Blackface (or Blueface) Puppet in Petrouchka
July 15, 2020
Nancy Stark Smith 1952-2020
May 5, 2020
Ratmansky Brings Postmodern Rule-Breaking to His New “Voices”
Feb 10, 2020
Yvonne Rainer’s Mattress Dance That “Went Nowhere” Is Now Getting Somewhere
Nov 13, 2019
7 Reasons to Love William Forsythe’s Quiet Evening of Dance
Oct 17, 2019
Ross Parkes (1940-2019) Brought Graham Technique to China
Sept 18, 2019
Akram Khan Tackles Kung Fu for Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise
June 18, 2019
This Israeli Company Rehearses in An Eco Village—And Brings Its Vision of Sustainability to the U.S.
March 1, 2019
The Judson Revolution Comes to MoMA
Jan 11, 2019
Ailey Celebrates 60 Years with Thrilling New Works
Dec 12, 2018
James Whiteside Explores His Creepy Side As Arthur Pita’s Haunted Tenant
Oct 30, 2018
The Adrenaline Rush of Twyla Tharp’s Upper Room Is Coming Back to ABT
Oct 11, 2018
Boris Charmatz Brings His Mad, Myriad Motions to NYC
Sept 25, 2018
Jane Comfort and Company Takes Audiences From Maniacal to Melancholy
April 4, 2018
New York City Loves Anna Halprin
June 6, 2017
Words of Wisdom and Curiosity from Doug Elkins
April 25, 2017
The Best Moments from Last Week’s YAGP Gala
April 18, 2017
Lovers of Early Tharp: Great News for You
April 11, 2017
We Need Liz Lerman Now More Than Ever
April 4, 2017
A Very Different Faun on PBS
March 28, 2017
A Farewell to Trisha Brown
March 22, 2017
NYCB Brings Back Rare Favorites
March 7, 2017
How to Nail the Ballerina Role in Robbins’ Funniest Ballet
February 28, 2017
Ohad Says: The 7 Best Quotes from the Mr. Gaga Film
February 7, 2017
Why Rockette Phoebe Pearl Is a New Dance Hero
January 10, 2017
How Did Fred Astaire Help Debbie Reynolds Learn to Dance?
January 3, 2017
Wendy’s Best of 2016
December 27, 2016
David Gordon’s Archival Fun House
December 14, 2016
Is David Hallberg Coming Back?
November 29, 2016
Fifty Years Ago in Dance Magazine: Anna Halprin
Nov 22, 2016
NYC to Dancers: Immigrants Welcome Here
Nov 15, 2016
Sara Mearns & Jodi Melnick: Ballet Glamour Meets PostModern Glamor
Nov 8, 2016
Is Coburn Dance Academy Becoming SAB West?
Nov 1, 2016
Standing Ovations for Edwaard Liang at BalletMet
October 27, 2016
Kindness Counts: How Wendy Whelan Changed NYCB
October 18, 2016
Fall for Dance Ends on a High
October 11, 2016
Westward Ho: Is California Raiding NYC for Its Dance Professors?
October 4, 2016
Choreographer Ralph Lemon Honored by President Obama
September 27, 2016
Is Annabelle Lopez Ochoa the Busiest Female Ballet Choreographer on the Planet?
September 20, 2015
Suzanne Farrell: Balanchine’s Muse—and More
September 13, 2016
The Storyteller
Aug 31, 2016
Marcelo Gomes’ Choreographic Breakthrough
Aug 30, 2016
Celebrating Dance in Kansas City
Aug 23, 2016
Chicago Dancing Festival Celebrates 19th Anniversary
August 16, 2016
The Secret Dance Life of Andy Warhol
August 9, 2016
Ten Reasons Wheeldon’s Winter’s Tale Will Last
August 2, 2016
Six New Reasons to Visit Jacob’s Pillow
July 26, 2016
Inside Cats: Georgina Pazcoguin Becomes the White Cat
July 18, 2016
Alessandra Ferri Gives a Performance for the Ages
June 28, 2016
How the Dance World Is Responding to Orlando
June 20, 2016
ABT’s Golden Cockerel: The Sublime and the Ridiculous
June 7, 2016
Pennsylvania Ballet Braves Trisha Brown
May 30, 2016
ODC: The Show Must Go On
May 10, 2016
12 Audacious Quotes of Martha Graham
April 18, 2016
A Tribute to Gus Solomons
March 28, 2016
Competitions: The pressure to Go Acrobatic
March 24, 2016
Baryshnikov: A Different Kind of Dancer
March 14, 2016
8 Things I Learned from Anna Halprin
March 10, 2016
Dance/NYC Symposium Gets Down
March 2, 2016
Kim Brandstrup: Master of Moods
February 22, 2016
Bill Irwin: The Dancer Inside the Clown
February 15, 2016
Last Chance to See Trisha Brown’s Works Onstage
January 25, 2016
Wendy’s Best of 2015
December 22, 2015
Ailey: The Revelation of Relevance
December 15, 2015
A Few Things to Be Thankful For
November 23, 2015
Glaring White Lights: Pite and McGregor
November 16, 2015
The First Wheelchair Performer on Broadway
November 9, 2015
What About Diversity in Modern Dance
November 2, 2015
The Revelation of Kim Brandstrup
October 20, 2015
Angel Corella Ups the Ante at Pennsylvania Ballet
October 13, 2015
Coping With Bad Reviews
October 6, 2015
The 7 Best Scenes in the New Misty Movie
September 22, 2015
Remembering Blondell Cummings
September 2, 2015
The People of Hamilton
August 24, 2015
A Trans-Atlantic Breeze Is Blowing in Ballet
August 3, 2015
Geoffrey Holder, We Love You
July 27, 2015
Velocity Goes Climate-Neutral
July 14, 2015
Equal Time for Stella Abrera
July 7, 2015
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin, 95
June 30, 2015
Misty Triumphs in Swan Lake, Fouettés Be Damned
June 25, 2015
Don’t Miss Ailey at Lincoln Center
June 17, 2015
Celebrate New York City, River to River
June 9, 2015
The Highs and Lows of the Benois de la Danse
June 4, 2015
On the Town and An American in Paris Win Big at the Astaire Awards
June 2, 2015
The Best of London—In Four Days
May 29, 2015
Tap Nerds Unite
May 19, 2015
Highlights of ABT’s 75th Anniversary Blowout
May 19, 2015
No Child Left Dance-less
May 12, 2015
When Things Go Wrong Onstage
May 7, 2015
Six Reasons We Love David Hallberg
April 21, 2015
Ten Things We Didn’t Know About Christopher Wheeldon
April 28, 2015
Paradise in Positano
April 17, 2015
YAGP’s Constellation Includes David Hallberg
April 14, 2015
Beyond Tokenism in Swan Lake
April 7, 2015
Feast on Dance Salad
March 30, 2015
Seven Things for College Dancemakers to Avoid
March 24, 2015
Helen Pickett: Rebel on Pointe
March 17, 2015
An Ode to Comedic Dances
March 8, 2015
Can Dance Flourish in a Non-dance Town?
March 3, 2015
Ron K. Brown: Where Struggle Meets Spirituality
February 24, 2015
The Joffrey Ballet’s Big News
February 17, 2015
Wheeldon’s New Winter’s Tale in Cinemas
February 10, 2015
New Media and “Old” Media
Feb 2, 2015
The Clive Barnes Awards
Jan 27, 2015
The Divine Diana
Jan 19, 2015
Old Flames and New Names at APAP
Jan 12, 2015
Start the New Year with Serenade
Jan 5, 2015
Wendy’s Best and Worst of 2014
Dec 29, 2014
Make Your Own Dance Sampler
Dec 22, 2014
Countdown for ABT’s Nutcracker
Dec 15, 2014
Irina Baronova: Baby Ballerina
Dec 8, 2014
Diana Vishneva’s Generous Vision
Dec 1, 2014
ABT Partners With Segerstrom
Nov 24, 2014
New Acclaim for Batsheva
November 17, 2014
The American at the Mikhailovsky
November 10. 2014
Dancers Curating Dancers
Nov 2, 2014
Dancing in Hollywood Via MoMA
Oct 27, 2014
Wendy Whelan’s Farewell
Oct 20, 2014
The Cornucopia of Fall for Dance
Oct 4, 2014
Double-sided Gem in the Suburbs of DC
Sept 22, 2014
Joffrey Celebrates 20 Years
Sept 15, 2014
Paradise in Positano
Sept 8, 2014
What Exactly Is Contemporary Ballet?
Sept 1, 2014
Velocity Rings In the Fall Season
Aug 25, 2014
Tiler Peck Improves on Degas
Aug 18, 2014
When Versatility Has Depth As Well As Breadth
Aug 11, 2014
Pick a Borough, Any Borough
Aug 5, 2014
The Bolshoi’s Spartacus: Fortunately, Unfortunately
July 28, 2014
Swept Away, Fire Island Dance Festival
July 21, 2014
Dorrance Dance Unlocks Tap for Everybody
July 14, 2014
The Bolshoi on Tour: Still Soviet After All These Years?
July 7, 2014
Tap City Celebrates America
July 1, 2014
Full Circle for Trey McIntyre Project
June 23, 2014
L. A.—A Mecca for Dance Students?
June 16, 2014
Ailey Digs Into the Past While Surging in the Present
June 2, 2014
Neverwhere and Everywhere
May 26, 2014
Company Premiere & Revivals at ABT
May 18, 2014
The Tonys Aren’t Everything
May 12, 2014
NYC Students Are So Darn Lucky
May 4, 2014
New York City Ballet Takes a Risk
April 28, 2014
A Burst of Support for NYC Dance
April 21, 2014
Highlights of YAGP Galas
April 14, 2014
Bring Your Questions for Sergei Filin
April 11, 2014
A Dense Sliver of March Madness
March 30, 2014
Martha Graham and the Asian Connection
Mar 24, 2014
Good Work Comes from All Types of Colleges
Mar 17, 2014
Jirí Kylián Catching On in the U.S.
Mar 10, 2014
The Wonder Women of NYCB
Mar 2, 2014
Jenifer Ringer: Embarking on 2 New Worlds
Feb 24, 2014
Royal New Zealand Ballet
Feb 15, 2014
Miami City Ballet Loves Bernardo
Feb 14, 2014
A Dancer Who Survived the Holocaust
Jan 27, 2014
The Lore of “Dances at a Gathering”
Jan. 20, 2014
If You’re Starting a Company, Shhhhh
Jan 13, 2014
Dance Curators Sharp of Focus
Jan 6, 2014
Wendy’s Best of 2013
Dec 29, 2013
Dancers Have Big Hearts
Dec 23, 2013
Philip Glass’ Bond with Dance
Dec 16, 2013
On Butoh , Ko Murobushi
Dec 09, 2013
My Week in Japan, Courtesy YAGP
Dec 02, 2013
All in the Family
Nov 25, 2013
JFK’s Assassination: We Kept Dancing
Nov 17, 2013
Will Gergiev Destroy Russian Ballet?
Nov 11, 2013
Story Ballets vs. Abstract Ballets—and a Strange Animal in Between
Nov 04, 2013
San Francisco Ballet: Where Contemporary Ballet Thrives
Oct 28, 2013
Steve Paxton & Lisa Nelson: The Alchemy of Mundane Objects
Oct 22, 2013
Forsythe at BAM: Whatever Is the Opposite of Facile
Oct 14, 2013
Is “Process Art” Making a Comeback?
Oct 06, 2013
Wheeldon’s New Piece: More Than a Daring Experiment
Oct 3, 2012
Costume Designers Need to Hear the Music
Sep 27, 2013
Arthur Pita’s Metamorphosis, from The Royal Ballet
Sep 20, 2013
Treasures of Dance History on the Internet & Beyond
Sep 05, 2013
Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature
Aug 19, 2013
All the Dancing Now Barred in Russia
Aug 16, 2013
What’s Ballet Without the Spectacle?
Aug 5, 2013
Forbidden Love in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Jul 25, 2013
And How About “New World” Ballerinas?
Jul 08, 2013
The Vagnova Academy Celebrates 275 Years
Jul 2013
Another Kind of Fireworks: Ethiopian Dancer/singer Fendika
July 04, 2013
On Maria Kochetkova’s Aurora with ABT
Jul 01, 2013
Who Is the Girl Who Opens Up to the Heavens at the End of Serenade? On Elizabeth Kendall’s book Balanchine and the Lost Muse
Jun 17, 2013
Global Hip-Hop Comes to the Apollo
Jun 17, 2013
Osipova & Vasiliev: Beyond the Thrills
May 2013
Dance Against Cancer Gala
May 2013
Should Galas Be Reviewed—Or Not?
May 13, 2013
Should Galas Be Reviewed? Part II
May 22, 2013
Donald Byrd Propels DTH Into a New Place
April 2013
A Tribute to Trisha Brown: Lance Gries’ collaborative project
April 2013
Is the Bolshoi Reverting to Soviet Times?
Mar 21, 2013
When Star Choreographers Get Old Enough, They Can Unleash Furies
Feb 27, 2013
The Brazenness of Simple Walking on a Ballet Stage
Feb 08, 2013
Shock at the Bolshoi
Jan 18, 2013
My Best of 2012
Dec 25, 2012
Belarus Cultivates New Choreography
Dec 2012
The Power of Surprise: Val Caniparoli’s Lottery for Ballet West
Nov 12, 2012
Why Are Ballet Costumes So…De-enhancing?
Nov 02, 2012
Wheeldon’s New Piece: More Than a Daring Experiment
Oct 03, 2012
Einstein on the Beach: Less Eccentricity But Still Transporting
Sep 2012
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime at Joe’s Pub
Sep 2012
ADG: Honoring Dianne McIntyre, Elaine Summers, and Harald Kreutzberg
Sep 11, 2012
Hollywood Celebrates Jack Cole on TV
Sep 10, 2012
Vail Is Blooming & Booming Under Damian Woetzel
Aug 2012
Loving a Dance All the Way Through vs. Changing Your Opinion Midway
Aug 09, 2012
What Makes Dance American?
Aug 2013
How Does Knowing the Offstage Relationship Affect Your Dance Viewing?
Jun 28, 2012
Pina Bausch Marathon: Pleasure or Pain?
Jun 2012
Sutton Foster in Bunheads—Shades of Heather Watts???
June 19, 2012
The Australian Ballet’s Psycho Swan Lake
Jun 18, 2012
Benois Prize, Russia, and Nacho Duato
Jun 2012
Why See Student Performances?
May 10, 2012
CTFD Gala: Telling the Story of Dance Shoes, and of Dance
Apr 24, 2012
Two Ensembles: Broadway’s Godspell and Juilliard’s Secus
April 2012
Tamara Rojo to Lead English National Ballet
April 2012
Two Days in Seattle’s Dance Wonderland
Mar 26, 2012
Is “Parallels” About Race, or Culture, or Dance?
Mar 2012
A Debate on Snark in Dance Criticism
Mar 06, 2012
Why Is Crystal Pite’s Darkness Uplifting Rather Than Depressing?
Feb 28, 2012
The Hasty Departures of Some Artistic Directors
Feb 22, 2012
Why Akram Khan Is a Major Dance Artist
Feb 17, 2012
How the Kings of Dance Deflate Their Royalty
Feb 2012
Sisters Forever in Trisha’s Spanish Dance
Jan 30, 2012
How Does Ballet Fit into a College Dance Department? Or, My Personal, Anachronistic Envy
Jan 22, 2012
Merce’s Other Legacy
Jan 01, 2012
My Best of 2011
Dec 2011
Dance Magazine Awards, Ahhhhh
Dec 2011
A Fresh Breeze at Ailey: The Gift of Humor
Dec 18, 2011
The Glory of Tharp’s In the Upper Room
Nov 2011
A Double Celebration of Jerome Robbins
Oct 2011
Wally Cardona’s Ridiculous Bliss
Sep 26, 2011
DTW and Bill T. Jones Join Hands, Or, An Ode to Arnie Zane
Sep 2011
Seven Brides, Seven Brothers, One Great Musical
Sep 2, 2011
An Ode to Lincoln Center in Summer
Aug 2011
Osipova and Vasiliev in Love
July 6, 2011
René Blum: the Man Who Rebuilt the Ballets Russes
Jul 2011
Sleeping Beauty: Fate and the Unconscious, or, A Great Partnership Gives It Life
Jul 2011
Vishneva & Gomes: Sublime in Giselle
Jun 3, 2011
Seven Reasons Why Ballet Is Thriving
May 3, 2011
NYFA Hall of Fame—Wow!
Apr 2011
Why Aren’t We Seeing Older Dancers More Often?
Apr 2011
Sarasota’s Growing Dance Scene
Mar 2011
Is There a Blackout on Black Swan’s Dancing?
Mar 03, 2011
Sara Mearns in Peter Martins’ Swan Lake
Feb 2011
Kyle Abraham at Joe’s Pub: Explosive Dancing in a Tiny Space
Feb 2011
The Big Picture of Trisha Brown
Jan 19, 2011
Mozartiana as an Antidote to TV
Jan 2011
How Does Facial Expression Change the Dancing? Looking at PNB Up Close at the Guggenheim
Jan 2011
Best of 2011
Dec 2011
Discovering Brazil: From Samba to Ballet to Hip-Hop
Nov 15, 2011
Harlem: A New/Old Hot Spot for Dance
Oct 2011
Who Is Hurt by the Blatant, um, Appropriation of Beyoncé’s “Countdown”?
Oct 11, 2011
DTW and Bill T. Jones Join Hands, Or, An Ode to Arnie Zane
Sep 16, 2011
Jodi Melnick and David Neumann at Jacob’s Pillow
Aug 15, 2011
Eiko & Koma: The Unnatural Side of Communing with Nature
Aug 2011
Carreño’s Farewell: Bravado & Humility
Jul 01, 2011
I Think I Just Invented a New Somatic Practice: Gaga Ball Work
Jun 2011
Dancers’ Choice: Day of Democracy
June 13, 2011
Where Are All the Men of Ballet Nacional de Cuba?
Jun 09, 2011
Damian Woetzel — Our Guy in the White House
May 2011
How Do You Keep Cultural Identity Without Falling Into Cliché?
May 2011
Alina Cojocaru as Giselle: Spiritual in Both Acts
May 2011
Can a Floor Give You Spiritual Energy? Ask Jared Grimes.
Apr 2011
Do Artists Have to Be Outsiders?
Apr 2011
Why Is Jacques d’Amboise’s Book Sooo Good?
Mar 14, 2011
How Does Geoffrey Rush Warm Up for Madman?
Mar 2011
There Is No One Like Christopher Williams
Feb 2011
Is Appropriation the Same as Stealing, and Why Is It Happening More Now?
Best of 2010
Dec 29, 2010
Black Swan—Better Than I Thought, But…
Dec 06, 2010
Politeness: Is It Crucial to the Future of Ballet?
Oct 24, 2010
Rooftop Madness Continued
Oct 2010
Yvonne Rainer and a Celebration of Judson
Oct 2010
Haunting Stillness: Merce Is Still With Us
Sep 07, 2010
Sometimes Just Dancing Is the Most Profound Thing: Ellis Wood
Sept 14, 2010
Blogging About the Process of Choreography—Ugh!
July 26, 2010
More on the Choreographic Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog
Aug 02, 2010
Allegra Kent: This Ballerina Is a Poet Too
Jul 2010
I Couldn’t Believe It Was the Same Guy: Richmond Ballet
Apr 12, 2010
Anna Halprin: The Eye of a Storm
Mar 14, 2010
Karole Armitage’s New Piece at BAM Piece
Nov 08, 2009
Does Choreography Need to Have Momentum?
Dec 20, 2009
A Light Bulb Crashed to the Floor
Dec 14, 2009
Fish and Fowl in Israel
Dec 11, 2009
How the Differently Abled Can Be the Perfect Faun
Dec 09, 2009
Ballet Hispanico Breaks Through
Dec 03, 2009
A Triple Blast from the Sixties
Nov 2009
Chabukiani, Balanchivadze, Ananiashvili
Oct 22, 2009
I Think I Found the Key to Wendy Whelan’s Mystery
Oct 2009
ABT Looks Forward
Oct 2009
Why Did We Wear Always White? On Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown
Oct 12, 2009
Mark Dendy’s Fauns in Love
Oct 1, 2009
The Miracle of Freddie Franklin
Sep 29, 2009
When Is a Wedding Day Like Doomsday? Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal
Sept 25, 2009
The Ballets Russes and Modern Dance: Who Influenced Whom?
September, 2009
Pilobolus and Good Crazy
Aug 2009
Let’s Hear It for the Teachers
Aug 2009
Sharing Merce
Jul 30, 2009
The End of Merce is an End for All of Us
Jul 27, 2009
Pina Bausch Dancers After Her Death
July 05, 2009
Trey McIntyre, The Music Man
Jun 2009
Is Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Redefining Virtuosity?
Jun 19, 2009
Isn’t It Katherine Dunham’s Centennial Too?
Jun 2009
Benjamin Millepied’s New Piece: Deeply Satisfying
May 2009
Trisha Took Me to Heaven
May 2009
Push vs. Pull: Tyler Angle vs. Robert Fairchild
Mar 13, 2009
Best of 2008
Dec 28, 2008
Dance Magazine Awards, Mishaps, and Heroes
Dec 18, 2008
Fifty Years and One Night of Ailey
Dec 2008
The Flame in Flamenco
Nov 2008
What Does Obama Mean to You?
Nov 07, 2008
Why Isn’t Jack Cole Better Known and Seen?
Oct 2008
Love at Second Sight: Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour
Oct 11, 2008
Google Led Me Back to My Teenage Idol
Sep 29, 2008
The Ecstasy and Agony of Sitting in the Audience, According to Jérôme Bel
Sep 12, 2008
Falling in Love with Fall for Dance
Sep 2008
What Makes Philip Glass’ Music So Gorgeous for Dancing?
Sep 08, 2008
Why Are Some Great Russian Dancers Superstars and Others Aren’t?
Jul 29, 2008
Flamenco Master in Silence: Was Israel Galván Improvising?
Jul 2008
Power to the People—the People of NYCB
Jul 2008
A Star Is Born: Sarah Lane
Jun 20, 2008
Beautiful Things I’ve Seen
Jun 2008
I Can’t Get Ekaterina Kondaurova Out of My Mind
Apr 18, 2008
I Couldn’t Help Doing the Merengue at ACDFA
Mar 25, 2008
Koresh Brightens a Rainy Day
Mar 11, 2008
Why Does One Improviser Rock and Another Falls Flat?
Dec 04, 2007
Ohad Naharin at BAM Blew Me Away
Nov 17, 2007
I Brake for Boston Ballet
Sep 20, 2007
And While I’m Talking About Merce
Aug 2007
My First Blog: Why Is Naharin’s Work So Mesmerizing? And The Mothers Made Me Cry
Jun 2007