From April 22 — Earth Day — through April 30, Juilliard presents three unique programs that celebrate and consider our changing environment. Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK Lincoln Center and Central Park, a location-based sound art installation, will launch on Earth Day. The following weekend, in partnership with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground takes place on the Josie Robertson Plaza. Directed and choreographed by Pam Tanowitz, the ensemble of 46 musicians and dancers will move across the campus ..read more

The Paul Taylor Dance Company and George Comfort & Sons have announced that they have finalized an agreement for the dance organization to relocate its headquarters to George Comfort & Sons’ 307 West 38th Street tower in Midtown’s bustling Times Square South neighborhood. Under the terms of the agreement structured as a 30-year leasehold condominium, Paul Taylor will occupy 31,000 square feet across the entire ninth and 10th floors of the 21-story tower beginning in early 2025. The dance company is expanding from its current 13,000-square-foot home at 551 Grand Street – more than tripl ..read more

This summer, Jacob’s Pillow will produce the 92nd season of its premier international dance festival, in a nine-week celebration of some of today’s most groundbreaking artists and dance companies performing locally, nationally and around the world. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2024 will run June 26 through August 25, and will feature indoor performances in the historic Ted Shawn Theatre and outdoor performances on the Henry J. Leir Stage. Visitors to Jacob’s Pillow this summer can also note progress being made on the construction of the reimagined Doris Duke Theatre, which is scheduled to ope ..read more

New York City Center, New York, NY. April 4, 2024. Over the course of four days in April, the cool kids came to town. Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), the bastion of contemporary dance in Europe based in The Hague, treated sold-out NYC dance audiences to three works during its first tour to America since 2020. For many of us in the audience, NDT’s previous performance was the last we saw live in theaters before the Covid lockdown. The return of the company to the same theater (New York City Center) felt in some ways like finally turning the page on a dark chapter of live performance, although th ..read more

The family favorite ballet, Cinderella, done only as A&A Ballet can, returns to the Chicago stage for the first time in six years, on May 18. This unique performance and take on the fairy tale is colorful, bright and fun, and features Asian American Tatiana Chen (Naperville) as Cinderella, and welcomes A&A Ballet and Joffrey Ballet veteran Amber Neumann back as Stepmother. The pair are supported by a diverse, international cast. The Cinderella we know and love can be traced to the French story Cendrillon, first published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, although Chinese and Greek versions ..read more

The Tank (Meghan Finn, Artistic Director; Johnny G. Lloyd, Director of Artistic Development; Molly FitzMaurice, Managing Producer) presents, in a co-production with Amanda + James, The Lydian Gale Parr, composed by Alaina Ferris with a libretto by Karinne Keithley Syers, direction by Meghan Finn, and choreography by Katy Pyle. Performances run April 5-20, and will be performed at Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, NY. The Lydian Gale Parr is a surreal and poetic chamber oratorio with ballet: a child emissary sent from a city under sie ..read more

The Woodman Family and Community Arts Center, Providence, RI. March 17, 2024. One could explore the possibilities within dance art for a lifetime and only scratch the surface. Generations of artists have done just that (and continue to do so). Some dance companies are particularly skilled at venturing through those possibilities, thoughtfully and courageously. Ballet RI is one of them. The classical, neoclassical, modern and contemporary, and all of the qualities that those separate genres contain – they’ve done it all. The company’s most recent program, Off the Charts, was an Exhibit A of suc ..read more

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. March 21, 2024. In Mark Morris’ world, The Look of Love is packaged in brightly colored, nostalgic, approachable wrapping. The work, his first since 2017, offers love in digestible bites, but sometimes it feels like you’re ordering off the kids menu. Performed to a suite of 14 Burt Bacharach songs, the 65-minute show creates a specific reality that celebrates love in all its various forms. Like all of Morris’ shows, live musicians accompany the dancers with stellar vocals from acclaimed Broadway and film star, Marcy Harriell. In fact, one could almost t ..read more

Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA. March 16, 2024. The classic Disney canon is nostalgic for many of this reviewer’s generation. Maybe we re-experience it when we have our own children and watch with them, or when these stories resurface in the cultural zeitgeist. If you’re me, you return to them as a dance critic (certainly no complaints there).  Through any of those avenues, we can be flooded with sweet nostalgia. I felt that with taking in Boston Ballet’s Cinderella, even with the company’s typical way of infusing a dash of the modern into a classical mix. Whether classic or modern ..read more

Tickets are now on sale for the 2024 United Dance Merchants of America (UDMA) shows. UDMA will be holding four regional shows to share its incredible, expansive experiences with dance teachers and studio owners. UDMA’s “Dance Teacher Resource Expo” is a one-stop destination for any and all of your dance needs, offering costumes, flooring, ballet barres and much more. It is the industry’s largest trade show with abundant vendors, and it’s a wonderful weekend event for your studio’s whole staff. The four 2024 shows include: Chicago Metro Show (September 21-22), Orlando Metro Show (September 27-2 ..read more