334 stories by "Gia Kourlas"
American Ballet Theater returns to Lincoln Center with its full-length production " and with it, a breakthrough performance by Skylar Brandt.
The fall season comes to a close at New York City Ballet, with a flurry of farewells and new beginnings.
To Camille A. Brown, the choreographer and co-director of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" at the Metropolitan Opera, this production is about legacy.
Maria Kowroski, the reigning principal of New York City Ballet and the last company member to have worked with Jerome Robbins, takes her final bow.
In "Sw!ng Out," Teicher and a creative team bring vernacular dance to the Joyce. Tacked onto the end? A jam for all.
The Fall Fashion Gala returned with new works by Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller that felt like fast fashion: flimsy.
New York City Ballet opened its fall season on Tuesday with its first full-scale performance since the pandemic began. It felt like a rainbow.
He used to say he would be remembered more for his teaching than his ballets. The film "In Balanchine's Classroom" provides a glimpse of that.
Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard have organized a festival that celebrates percussive dance and artists of all ages.
Madeline Hollander's "Review" at Performa, in which performers will mark dances that have been canceled or postponed, seems an apt response to our moment.
In Pablo LarraÃn's unsettling film, Mariana Di Girolamo stars as a dancer who finds freedom through reggaeton dance.
For the dancer, choreographer and director Francesca Harper, an "Ailey baby," this new role is also a homecoming.
This season Beach Sessions has just one dance: "Repose," a meditative, durational work by Moriah Evans.
During the pandemic Clara Miller stretched beyond dance to find another artistic voice.
A selection of New Yorkers reflecting on their pandemic experiences became part of this piece, conceived and choreographed by Andrea Miller.
Jamila Wignot explores the life of Alvin Ailey in a new documentary that brings a choreographer to life through movement and words.
This creative performance experiment presents a roving adventure through space with Aunts Goes Public!
Georgina Pazcoguin, a New York City Ballet soloist, has written a page-turner of a memoir.
What does it mean to watch and move through space, in dance and in life? As we emerge from the pandemic, we still have a moment to hold on to all that's slow.
The movie's choreographic team, led by Christopher Scott, gets raw and real with dancers " so many! " who give in to thrilling perpetual motion.
Katy Pyle's company, Ballez, performs "Giselle of Loneliness," a queer reimagining of the classic at the Joyce Theater.
Kyle Marshall's new works, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Shed, are about "creating something that actually feels joyful."
In her evolving exploration of identity, Leslie Cuyjet is breaking out as a choreographer, making work that is both conceptual and personal.
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith present their latest work, a fierce, feminist look at objectification at Abrons Arts Center's outdoor Amphitheater.
In a new production for the vast Drill Hall at the Armory, the idea is to let the trauma of a strange and unsettling year sink in: for better or worse.
