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1 week ago | 
newyorker.com | Vince Aletti |Brian Seibert |Jane Bua |Hilton Als
“Constellation,” a Diane Arbus exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory (through Aug. 17), includes more than four hundred and fifty famous, little-known, and unknown photographs from her brief career, cut short by suicide in 1971, at the age of forty-eight. Controversy dogged her posthumous shows and publications, and though it has mostly been replaced by a profound appreciation, Arbus isn’t easy to love. The work remains tough, provocative, and brilliantly dark.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Critic’s PickAt the Joyce Theater through Sunday, the Paul Taylor Dance Company revives two half-lost works from the 1960s, traversing matters both sacred and profane.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Brooklyn Academy of Music moves between church and twistin' the night away. Whispers, rattles, drums - that's what we hear at the start of "The Holy Blues," Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Then the curtain rises on what looks like a tree trunk with a door that opens to disgorge dancers, one by one. They run and stumble as if they've been ejected, spat out.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert |George Etheredge
Members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company rehearsing Merce Cunningham's "Travelogue" in costumes designed by Robert Rauschenberg. A Trisha Brown company tour recalls a time when Rauschenberg, one of the country's most influential artists, was changing and being changed by American dance. Members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company rehearsing Merce Cunningham's "Travelogue" in costumes designed by Robert Rauschenberg. Credit... It's not common for the set of a dance to have its own title.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert
Among the 20th century's most significant choreographers, he led the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, creating epic ballets like "Spartacus."Yuri Grigorovich at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 2017. As the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995, he reshaped late-Soviet-era dance. Credit...
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert
This year's DanceAfrica festival at BAM features Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, which a member likened to a mirror for the nation. Georgina Lourenço, center, and other members of Song & Dance Company of Mozambique practicing Nssope, which resembles the African American jump rope game double Dutch. Credit... Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times In the Mozambican dance Nssope, two people swing a long rope as other dancers take turns skipping it.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert |Dina Litovsky
Before he served in Iraq, Román Baca was a ballet dancer. Now he helps other veterans deal with their trauma - through dance. When Román Baca was serving as a Marine in Iraq in 2005, he didn't tell many people what kind of work he had done before the war. He had tried that in boot camp, and it hadn't gone well. So when his best friend in the platoon asked him why he seemed so interested in local dance practices, he hesitated before admitting the truth: He was a ballet dancer.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert |George Etheredge
In the Tony-nominated musical "Operation Mincemeat," five performers play a slew of roles. The choreography onstage and off is fast, elaborate and exacting. Credit... "Operation Mincemeat," a Tony Award nominee for best musical, tells the absurdly improbable true story of how a tiny group of misfits in British intelligence diverted the German army in World War II. It's a comic tale of a plan always on the verge of falling apart, and that's how it is represented theatrically.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Brian Seibert
Jasperse's engrossing "Tides" was a thrilling opener to a festival that often feels like a home for first drafts. It begins with a line of women in black dresses, advancing toward us. As the tide of their bodies turns back, one more woman emerges through them. She holds our attention with both otherworldly fluidity and a flashing of claws. She points at us with casual command, then shimmies. As she walks away, she looks over her shoulder with the tiniest of smirks.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Brian Seibert
NowApartments for Rent in a Former Office, but You Have to Live in MidtownFor many New Yorkers, Midtown Manhattan, with its gleaming skyscrapers and busy transportation hubs, lacks an element of cool and cachet that its more culturally vibrant neighbors have.
