334 stories by "Gia Kourlas"
For Gavin Larsen, the author of "Being a Ballerina," the drama of a life spent in dance is the dancing. Period.
Stephen Petronio's virtual program, presented by the Joyce Theater, explores isolation, longing and legacy, but doesn't take those issues to a deeper place.
Since March, the Brooklynettes have performed live at Barclays Center to crowds that are smaller than usual " but huge for dance.
Her film for City Ballet's virtual spring gala, featuring a new solo by Justin Peck, explores the nooks and crannies of the company's theater.
The New York City Ballet legend, who went on to form National Dance Institute, lived to the fullest " and danced with that same spirit.
As part of a digital program presented by the Joyce, the Trisha Brown Dance Company focuses on early movement invention.
As part of GrahamFest95, the choreographer's dance company celebrates its 95th anniversary with four films pairing dances with works by Hauser & Wirth artists.
Many dancers have taken advantage of a byproduct of the pandemic " time away from performing " to try out a new role: motherhood.
In a haunting new digital work, "Whale Fall," Mayfield Brooks mourns Black bodies.
Casel's joyful and generous spirit is as vivid as ever in a new virtual presentation by the Joyce Theater.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented its first live performance in more than a year: Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company.
Alexei Ratmansky returns to the stage with a playful Bernstein ballet, while Netta Yerushalmy revives a darker moment in time.
"American Masters: Twyla Moves," a new PBS documentary, is also a portrait of a singular dancer over time.
An elite male principal. A veteran ballerina. A rising apprentice. Three dancers talk about life and work during the pandemic.
Lauren Lovette, the New York City Ballet principal, is retiring from the company but not from dance.
With performances on pause, many dancers are rethinking their relationship to weight.
Why is it so hard to show the dance world as it is? This Netflix series about students at a ballet school is yet another cartoonish depiction.
Discipline and abandon gave the dancer an ingrained elegance, an internal organization of the body that you sense even when it's not pronounced.
Heather Lang and Ebony Williams of "Jagged Little Pill," talk about their work on Broadway and dealing with life on pause.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's dances for the Broadway revival swarm and sweep, but Robbins's choreography was something more central: the libretto.
Alexandria Wailes deftly weaves choreography and American Sign Language in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls."
Ephrat Asherie collaborates with her jazz pianist brother to place Ernesto Nazareth's music in a world of breaking, house, hip-hop and vogue.
In Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart's "Falling & Loving," dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Machine, which emits a waterfall of food andother objects.
In Al Blackstone's show, the songs are what set the characters on their journey, not the steps.
Raja Feather Kelly, who has left his mark on several Off Broadway shows, specializes in what he calls "virtuosic behavior."
