Here is the latest Dance News from The New York Times.
The Transcendent Artistry of a Legendary Dancer, Four Decades In
At 64, the choreographer, director, dancer and writer Bill T. Jones is making some of the most personal work of his career.
Review: ‘Prize’ Puts Dance and Drumming in the Spotlight
In this Anna Sperber piece at New York Live Arts, the opening drum solo sets a high bar for the choreography that follows.
Review: ‘Andy Warhol’s Tropico’: Ever Get Stuck in a Dream?
The dance, by the troupe the Feath3r Theory, at Danspace Project, has something to do with Andy Warhol and a Lana Del Rey video.
Review: Arizona Ballet Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience
This work, shared in the round with shifting symmetries and dissolving images, underscores how this company is one of the most enterprising anywhere.
Review: Yvonne Rainer’s ‘The Concept of Dust’ Keeps Viewers on Their Toes
Ms. Rainer creates a tapestry of movement and text that relate to aging and mortality in “Dust,” at the Kitchen.
Performance Mix Festival Celebrates 30 Years With Tap, Tonics and More
The festival returns to Abrons Arts Center with 13 events featuring 40 artists over six days.
John Jasperse Returns to Sarah Lawrence Dance, as Director
Mr. Jasperse, who graduated from the college and has a company, John Jasperse Projects, will take over from Sara Rudner this fall.
Police Dancing Videos Have It All: An Explosion, a Unicycle and Bagpipes
Videos of uniformed officers from around the world dancing to a 1990s hip-hop song have become an online sensation.
N.Y.U. Skirball Center Season Features Circus Arts, Ballet and Opera
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet opens the fall season, which includes Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s opera, “Breaking the Waves.”
Dance Listings for June 3-9
A selected guide to dance performances in New York City.
Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More
The works at the Joyce Theater were full of yearning, and performers who could bend and stretch like taffy.
Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy
In “Personal Symphonic Movement,” Elina Pirinen acknowledges the heaviness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 by dodging and resisting it.
‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick
Alexei Ratmansky reanimates a gold-plumed character with a long history onstage and in the literary imagination.
Review: ‘Obsidian Tear’ Is a Choreographic Breakthrough for Wayne McGregor
He blends a pared-down quality with fullness and grace in this all-male work danced by the Royal Ballet in London.
City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow
Andrew Litton conducts a week of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” creating “unusually powerful and eloquent” music, but the year has had its lapses.
Review: DanceAfrica Festival Focuses on Senegal
The festival, now under the direction of Abdel R. Salaam, adheres to the event’s traditional roots while also showing how African dance has evolved.
Review: New York and Sweden in Interlocking Union at La MaMa Moves!
The dancer-choreographers Ori Flomin and Helena Franzen, long-distance friends since the late ’90s, expressed a bond in their duet “Meeting You.”
For an Alicia Keys Video, Choreographing Spontaneity
Celia Rowlson-Hall discusses casting, improvisational hugging and plotting dance moves to a song without the song on Ms. Keys’s “In Common” video.
Review: At Danspace Project, Examining the Relation Between Bodies and Things
Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj prompt reflection on the placement of limbs and objects, and Justin Cabrillos wrestles with two frayed carpets.
A Dancer Prepares, From Tip to Toeshoes
Backstage with Miriam Miller as she gets ready to dance Titania in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at New York City Ballet, and then a parting glance when it’s over.
About Last Night: Miriam Miller Talks About Her Success at New York City Ballet
The dancer has taken on big roles, including Titania in George Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
A Changing of the Guard for Performance Space 122
Vallejo Gantner, the artistic director of PS122 who will step down when a replacement is found, said, “You want to leave when the going’s good.”
‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances
Anna Rose Holmer’s directorial debut focuses on an 11-year-old girl who learns the power of her body in its many manifestations.
Raja Feather Kelly, Bowing at the Altar of Saint Warhol
The choreographer’s new work, “Andy Warhol’s Tropico,” makes religion of pop culture at Danspace Project.
A Warm Place for Choreographers to Grow
The American Dance Institute Incubator residency program is giving a range of dance-makers the time, space and resources they need to create.
Dance Listings for May 27-June 2
Excerpt: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Tyler Angle and Tiler Peck in George Balanchine’s ballet, recorded in 2015.
Review: Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, With No Jazz and Lots of Head-Scratching
This Canadian troupe has brought three New York premieres — “Rouge,” “Mono Lisa” and “Kosmos” — to its run at the Joyce Theater.
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals
The New York City Ballet performed the first of a weeklong run of this Balanchine classic on Tuesday evening at the Koch Theater.
Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral
Frederick Ashton’s “La Fille Mal Gardée,” a sunny two-act 1960 masterpiece, returns to the company’s repertory for the first time in 10 years.
Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix to Be Honored by Apollo Theater
The Apollo’s coming season will include music, dance and weekly Amateur Nights.
BAM Next Wave Festival to Include Isabelle Huppert and Mikhail Baryshnikov
The festival, which runs Sept. 7 through Dec. 18, features work by Donnacha Dennehy, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Kyle Abraham.
Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris
The piece, playing at the Théâtre du Châtelet, is a lesser work by a great artist; still rich, troubling and haunting.
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