Giant beach balls, glowing air-traffic batons, a rock quarry, references to Irish dance sensation Michael Flatley, a paleobotanist, and the Venus de Milo: These things make up the wildly imaginative world of SISSY, a new dance-theater play written, directed, and choreographed by Celia Rowlson-Hall, which runs April 24–26 at Baryshnikov Arts.

As Instagram has become one of the most popular apps in the world, dancers have—unsurprisingly—taken full advantage. Major companies like American Ballet Theatre and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater use the app to share videos of shows and rehearsals. Dance filmmakers like Celia Rowlson-Hall post short bursts of their newest films. Performers like Maria Kochetkova […]

With her wacky charm, Celia Rowlson-Hall has become the dance darling of fashion and film.  When Celia Rowlson-Hall found out she would be choreographing for HBO’s “Girls,” she felt like she was in the right place. Woven into the drama of last season’s “Beach House” episode, her coy, catchy moves had the actors chugging, grapevining […]