Robert Greskovic

1 month ago | wsj.com | Robert Greskovic

In a season with no world premieres, the troupe is still offering rich programming, honoring the 50th anniversary of its Ravel Festival and offering dances by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and others. For only the second time in my 5 1/2 decades attending New York City Ballet’s spring seasons at Lincoln Center, the troupe presented no world premieres.

2 months 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.

Mar 17, 2025 | 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.

Mar 4, 2025 | 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.

Feb 12, 2025 | 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.