Dancer and choreographer José Martinez returns to the French capital to direct Paris Opera Ballet following Aurelie Dupont’s departure earlier in 2022.

From an ongoing project manipulating motion capture technology to a Giselle with Spanish flair, here are three performances we’ve penciled into our calendars this month. Hitting the Punchline Ben Schultz and Lorenzo Pagano in Annie-B Parson’s I used to love you Brigid Pierce, Courtesy Janet Stapleton ONLINE The Martha Graham Dance Company’s programming this month […]

A radiant person onstage and off, former New York City Ballet star Joaquin De Luz is shifting from being in the spotlight to giving back. After training with famed teacher Víctor Ullate, the Spanish dancer moved to the U.S. at 20, dancing with American Ballet Theatre for six years before alighting at NYCB in 2003, […]

The International Ballet Festival of Miami honored Dance Magazine with its Criticism & Culture of Ballet award this weekend during its closing gala performance. Before the stage was taken over by local favorites like Miami City Ballet and Dimensions Dance Theatre, European stars like Céline Gittens and Brandon Lawrence of Birmingham Royal Ballet, and several […]

Compañia Nacional de Danza Matadero Madrid Madrid, Spain July 9–19, 2009 Reviewed by Valerie Gladstone In his first work for CND, choreographer Gustavo Ramírez, artistic director of the Valencia-based company Proyecto Titoyaya, showed an affinity for large, spacious movement, in a piece filled with rapid, twisting turns and low leaps. But from the opening image […]