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Grinch at the ballet Come on, is ballet ever funny? Really?...
Me and the Bamboo Blues: Coming to Terms with Pina Bausch A striking new work from Pina Bausch at the Brooklyn Academy restores one's faith in a modern-dance icon....
Ballet boy with movie star magneticism ...in Benjamin Millepied's choreographic offering at the Joyce this week...
Oprah Joins Jamison, Ailey Dancers in 50th Season The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater scorns doing things by half measures. Wednesday night's gala opening of its five-week season...
The belittling act of being somebody Faye Driscoll's savage, smart, and sad dance-drama "837 Venice Blvd"...
Balanchine Casts Christmas Spell With 'Nutcracker' It's too easy to yield to the magic of George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," performed by the New York City Ballet....
Thoughts on Balanchine's "Nutcracker" Marie awakens to witness startling transformations. The Christmas tree grows to gargantuan size. The toy soldiers, neatly arranged in a...
Snapshot This week's video: Fred Astaire performs "One for My Baby" in "The Sky's the Limit."...
Richardson Brings Eye Candy, Grace to Complexions The multiethnic, multicultural Complexions Contemporary Ballet, which opened its two-week season at New York's Joyce Theater on Tuesday, is devastatingly...
Robert Gottlieb's "Reading Dance" revisited The good book inside the lousy one...
Clive Barnes, RIP The lively, incisive dance and theater critic, 1927-2008...
Vile bodies A lost era of ballet, fashion, and frequent new work...
Robert Gottlieb's "Reading Dance" A squandered opportunity...
What Ever Happened to Bebe Miller? I remember the veteran dancer-choreographer Bebe Miller for two qualities: the ferocity of her performing--she was a wild, thrillingly unpredictable...
Gillian Murphy, pillar of fire The ABT ballerina brings Tudor to life...
Good old days Bob Gottlieb's just-published "Reading Dance" brings back fond memories for a recovering dance critic....
Lubovitch Group Brings Vintage Dances, New Dancers The gala opening night of the 40-year-old Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Wednesday, at New York's City Center, revealed a great...
Antony Tudor and the Fragility of Dance Some thoughts on American Ballet Theatre's Tudor Celebration and some regrets on how few of his ballets are still with...
Tudor's Stricken Lovers End Ballet Theatre Season The ability to reveal, through movement, the complex emotional life of a human being, was the supreme gift of Antony...
Start salivating now: American Ballet Theatre's stupendous spring season...
An Enduring Connection: De Keersmaeker and Reich All told, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's "Steve Reich Evening" had the deep civility of work made for an audience expected...
Dance, Modern/Contemporary/Physical A roundup of New York modern dance, from Fall for Dance to Jerome Bel and Ivana Mueller and DV8 to...
How to watch a Wheeldon ballet. Plus, his young company's promise and peril...
No time for jet lag Should the Kirov ballet slow down?...