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Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear
In the studio, filled with light, I watch my boyfriend, the artist and choreographer Matty Davis, as he dances beside me, and I feel, above all else, disgusted. He circles me in a sort of sideways gallop, a movement akin to a basketball player’s ...
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FKA twigs Dances Martha Graham: ‘This Is Art in Its Truest Form’
Once a young bunhead, the acclaimed musical artist is taking the stage with the Martha Graham Dance Company. For her, it’s holy grail territory.
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Ushio Amagatsu, Japanese Dancer Who Popularized Butoh, Dies at 74
He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction.
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Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Is in New (and Capable) Hands
The company performed its first New York City Center season under the direction of Robert Garland in a program including George Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.”
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The Sounds That Made Her Move: ‘Music Fed My Life Force’
The choreographer Dianne McIntyre presents “In the Same Tongue,” a dance she calls “an artistic history of myself,” at the new Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater.
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Review: Turning Dancers Into Aliens One Step at a Time
Under the artistic leadership of Emily Molnar, Nederlands Dans Theater returned to New York City Center with a less than stellar triple bill.
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Review: Millepied and Muhly, Partners in Space and Sound
Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
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For 50 Years Ailey II Has Been a Proving Ground, Not Just for Dance
As the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has evolved, it has trained dancers and choreographers for tenacity as much as technique.
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Allison Holker Is Dancing Through the Ups and Downs
The performer stopped dancing after the death of her husband, Stephen Boss. Now she’s a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance,” the show where they met.
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Review: Looking for Love With Burt Bacharach, and Finding a Prayer
Mark Morris’s “The Look of Love” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is uneven, but you can’t fight its swing.
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