Robert Greskovic

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

The highlights of the troupe’s current programs at the Joyce Theater are Graham’s own works, as well as those most directly inspired by her. “Dances of the Mind,” the Martha Graham Dance Company’s program at the Joyce Theater through Sunday, comprises 11 works in three different mixed bills and celebrates the troupe’s 99th season.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

March 17, 2025 5:27 pm ETNew YorkWhen dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, now age 83, narrated her 1982 video “Scrapbook,” she reflected on the 1965 beginnings of her then four-woman group of dancers: “We thought of ourselves righteously and rigorously as a bunch of broads doing God’s work.” Twyla Tharp Dance, today a 12-member ensemble of six women and six men, is currently celebrating her 60th anniversary as a dancemaker. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

New York“Tango After Dark,” the two-act showcase of dance and music at the Joyce Theater through Sunday, is a decidedly contemporary take on a style whose roots go back to 19th-century Argentina, where the social dance for couples in upright embraces began life in bars and brothels. The suite has been choreographed in collaboration with the show’s dancers by Germán Cornejo and assistant choreographer Gisela Galeassi, who with Mr. Cornejo makes up its leading couple.

2 months ago | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

New YorkBefore its winter season concludes on March 2, following a run of 13 performances of its 2-act “Swan Lake” in Peter Martins’s strung-out and undistinguished 1996 staging, New York City Ballet has been mixing it up with an impressive array of smartly arranged triple and quadruple bills.

Dec 18, 2024 | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

New York and Brooklyn, N.Y.Since “The Nutcracker” had its 1892 premiere with Russia’s imperial ballet in St. Petersburg, the underlying source for the now world-famous and popular Christmas-season entertainment has been “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 tale. Its Christmas Eve narrative about a German family visited by an eccentric, older gentleman tells of often fantastical adventures in which mice and toys—particularly a sharp-jawed, bearded nutcracker—play parts.