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From Miami City Ballet to Broadway—and the steam room For most dancers, performing six nightly shows and two matinees a week would be the ultimate test of stamina. But for former Miami City Ballet soloist Sara Esty, she’s actually dancing less now that she’s an ensemble dancer in An American in Paris on Broadway. “I […]

Adventurous dancers love a challenge, but even one as game and gifted as Sara Esty could have felt daunted diving on short notice into Twyla Tharp’s The Golden Section. When a principal was injured shortly before the ballet’s Miami City premiere a year ago, Esty was tapped to take her place. With Balanchine’s Divertimento No. […]

This is huge news, so we’ll get straight to it: We now (finally!) know who’ll be appearing onscreen alongside Ariana DeBose and the other previously announced leads in Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, choreographed by Justin Peck. Unsurprisingly, the Sharks/Jets cast list includes some of the best dancers in the industry. Maybe the […]

Each month at Dance Magazine, we zero in on budding talent in our “On the Rise” department. Our writers across the country and beyond are continually on the lookout for the dancers and choreographers who are bound to be majors names in the years to come. With 2018 coming to a close, what better time […]

We are deep into the fall season, and the steady stream of great performances has yet to let up. Here are the shows we’re keeping an eye on this month. It’s the End of the World as We Know It Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale. Photo by Rahi Rezvani, Courtesy Danse Danse MONTREAL AND NEW YORK […]

Alvin Ailey’s Revelations is the most widely-seen piece of modern dance ever. And it’s about to reach even more people. As much as we love seeing live performance, the recent trend of showing dance on TV (and at the movies and through livestreams!) is widening accessibility in a big way. Just in the next few […]

I fell in love with George Chakiris the moment I saw him in the movie West Side Story. With a dignified, controlled sexiness as the leader of the Sharks, he captured my heart—and that of millions of other Americans—in 1961. When he danced Bernardo, who fought for the rights of the Puerto Rican immigrants as […]

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Miami, FL January 11–13, 2013 Performance reviewed: Jan. 11 The comfort of seeing familiar dance qualities and the challenge of having them expanded proved mostly satisfying in Liam Scarlett’s Euphotic. This was the British choreographer’s second Miami City Ballet premiere since his 2012 success in creating Viscera for […]