I keep thinking about Nino Gogua in Duo Concertant. It was the only Balanchine on State Ballet of Georgia’s program at Jacob's Pillow last week. This is a difficult piece to perform cuz the two dancers have to hang out arou… Read More >

During the audience participation, Pat Catterson’s voice on tape asked us, “Have you changed the distance between your shoulders during this performance?” After a gentle litany of those kinds of questions, we heard, “Do you t… Read More >

The idea for the Calatrava festival wasn’t fully realized until last night’s premiere, Peter Martins’ own ballet, Mirage (and beautifully so). His concept to emphasize the relationship between architecture and d… Read More >

Like a bat out of hell, each woman bounded across the space with leap/runs, hands in fists, face set in determination. The all-female ensemble of Sketches from 'Chronicle' (1936), led powerfully by Jennifer DePalo, worked up to a fever pitch, infusing the spare geometry of Graham’s … Read More >

The Abramovic exhibit at MoMA reminded me of all the performance art in the 70s. It seems to me that her specialty is stillness—and a certain bizarreness. In one display area, a nude woman reclined with a skeleton on top of her. In another, two people, sitting back to back, were tied togethe… Read More >

Almost every spring ABT trots out a new full-length production, and more often than not, it’s an expensive failure. After all, what could hold up against Swan Lake, Giselle, and Romeo and Juliet?  I think John Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias just might … Read More >

The men in Trisha Brown’s company never got to do Spanish Dance, that slowly advancing line of swaying hips and spooning bodies. So yesterday at my last talk on Trisha at DTW, six post-Trisha choreographers and I did Spanish Dance to “break the ice” before our t… Read More >

Baryshnikov invited three choreographers to make solos on him and two others to perform their own solos. “Unrelated Solos” was an amazing program, not only because of how different these artists a… Read More >

Wayne McGregor’s Outlier for NYCB started slow and stealthy. There was something eerie about the way Craig Hall and Tiler Peck hovered close to each other. They seemed to be moving in some kind of viscous liqui… Read More >

An oasis of calm, light, and exquisite simplicity. The quality of attention is intensified by the silence. You notice every second of the light changing and the ha… Read More >

Elizabeth Streb and Philippe Petit, together on a high wire (well, a low high-wire), were a giddy sight for the crowd at the STREB Action Maverick Award Benefit last night. She, behind him with hands lightly on his shoulders; he so mischievous that I expected him to break into a waltz. But they ma… Read More >

At Dia:Beacon this weekend, Trisha Brown placed her Group Primary Accumulations with Movers into the Michael Heizer Gallery, whose floor has four huge, deep canyons carved into it. The four women were lying on their backs seren… Read More >

I am not sure what happens on this day, but let's all think about dance together. We think about it all the time anyway.

Every year on this day, a different well-known dance artist writes a message to…everyon… Read More >