On Saturday afternoon, The New Yorker Festival presented a discussion between dance critic Joan Acocella and Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky at Cedar Lake’s theater in Chelsea. Ratmansky is currently the Bolshoi Ballet’s artistic director, and he’s created works for several companies around the world, including his recent Concerto DSCH for New York City Ballet. [...]

Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Sounddance, photo courtesy of MCDC image galleries Friday evening’s Fall for Dance program at NY City Center showcased five distinct works - thematically, musically, and choreographically - that demonstrated the festival’s success at bringing together diverse dance companies and artists. The performance opened with Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Sounddance. Ten [...]

Alexei Ratmansky, photo by Vyacheslav Podorozhy for NYC Ballet Alexei Ratmansky, the current artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, will join American Ballet Theatre next year as its resident choreographer, according to an NY Times article.  This move is a slap in the face (the Times said a “gracefully placed thumb in the eye”) to New [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that I love Chopin’s piano pieces. They are breezy, thoughtful, and at times dramatic and intense. With such beautiful music, it is easy to let the mind wander (as mine did several times throughout the performance), to lose yourself in listening to the music, which is exactly what Jerome [...]

There are a ton of upcoming performances and events that I’m really excited about. I’ll certainly try to post reviews of them all, but in the meantime, here’s a peek at some of the performances that I’ll be seeing over the next two weeks: 1) New York City Ballet’s “Here and Now”: This program includes [...]

Marcelo Gomes and fellow ABT dancers watch the parade from 890 studios (click to enlarge) The second annual New York City Dance Parade made it’s way down Broadway on Saturday, featuring 108 different dance organizations, including hip-hop dancers, salsa, flamenco, ballet, folkloric, and traditional ethnic dance companies. After parading down Broadway and through Union Square, all [...]

I just came across this NY Magazine behind-the-scenes piece about Twyla Tharp’s new ballet for American Ballet Theatre.  “Carefree leaps”, a “wildly percussive score”, some of ABT’s best dancers, and a comparison to Tharp’s In the Upper Room - can it get any better than this?  The countdown to June 3 begins… (photo of Tharp in a Gap ad, August [...]