Success Eluded Him in Dance. Then Came Gymnastics and Simone Biles.
Grégory Milan, who works with Biles and the French national team, has found a home in gymnastics, though his pure dance background is unusual in the sport.
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Grégory Milan, who works with Biles and the French national team, has found a home in gymnastics, though his pure dance background is unusual in the sport.
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The rise of the soloist Chloe Misseldine is part of the artistic director Susan Jaffe’s master plan: Start them young and give them time to grow.
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After a tremendous “Swan Lake” performance, Chloe Misseldine was promoted onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House. The audience went nuts.
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Tap festivals have been pivotal in passing on tradition. But New York’s has been canceled and the institution that supports it faces an uncertain future.
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Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.
By Javier C. Hernández
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Wayne McGregor’s 2015 work, making its New York debut with American Ballet Theater, fails to make dance poetry of Virginia Woolf’s novels.
By Brian Seibert
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By Roslyn Sulcas
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By Joshua Barone
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By Roslyn Sulcas
BAM, which has faced cutbacks in recent years, unveiled a reorganization as it announced its Next Wave Festival for the fall.
By Annie Aguiar
Mayfield Brooks explores grief and decomposition in the hull of a 19th-century cargo ship.
By Gia Kourlas and Simbarashe Cha
Samar Haddad King’s premiere at the Shed tells a layered story of trauma, dislocation and resilience.
By Candice Thompson
As part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of “Cats” unfolds as a ballroom competition.
By Joshua Barone
It was a sign of her generosity that her program this weekend was almost all work by her associates.
By Brian Seibert
New York City Ballet wrapped up its 75th anniversary celebration at Lincoln Center this spring with a look to the future. But it didn’t always speak to it.
By Gia Kourlas
Ashley R.T. Yergens’s “Surrogate,” premiering at New York Live Arts this week, explores how trans men experience pregnancy and I.V.F.
By Lauren Wingenroth
“We have to really become creative about everything we do,” said Jaffe, as the company works to address financial woes and carve a modern identity.
By Javier C. Hernández
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Andy Cohen, Fran Lebowitz and hundreds more gathered at Little Island, Barry Diller’s one-of-a-kind park on the Hudson River, for a new dance performance by Twyla Tharp.
By Sarah Bahr
Benjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée — a daylong event in Paris and its environs — wants “to tell the invisible stories of the city.”
By Roslyn Sulcas
The choreographer’s “Navy Blue” is the rare work to express the emotions of life in pandemic lockdown.
By Brian Seibert
Zack Winokur, an ambitious dancer-turned-director, now has a New York stage to call his own as the park’s artistic leader.
By Joshua Barone
Leading off the summer season at Little Island in Manhattan, the choreographer presents “How Long Blues,” with T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield.
By Gia Kourlas
Mira Nadon, the rising New York City Ballet principal, is coming off her best season yet. And it’s only the beginning.
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