Dance
Ballet, contemporary dance, choreographers and performances across New York. Independently reported previews, interviews and criticism.
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GALLIM opens its choreography to another voice
On the approach to its twentieth anniversary, Andrea Miller’s company makes its first commission from an outside choreographer.
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Garth Fagan Dance returns with an argument about inheritance
At the Joyce, Fagan’s repertory shares the stage with New York premieres from the company’s current leaders.
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London City Ballet returns with Robbins, Tetley and two different evenings
A revived company arrives at the Joyce with works by Jerome Robbins and Glen Tetley, though they appear on separate programs.
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In Brooklyn, a disco lesson leads back to Kristallnacht
Yehuda L. Hyman’s autobiographical Dancing Into Roses traces a journey from invented steps in 1980s Germany to a protest decades later.
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The Nutcracker, and the New York winter it helped invent
Balanchine’s 1954 ballet returns to Lincoln Center November 27, carrying generations of holiday memory with it.
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Ailey makes room for Vandross, Forsythe and its own history
New work to Luther Vandross, a Forsythe company premiere and repertory by Judith Jamison shape Ailey’s winter season at City Center.