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When Diana Vishneva danced the role of Titania in Ashton's The Dream, for the first time with American Ballet Theatre last summer, she offered a vision of the Fairy Queen [...]

William Forsythe made his first work (a pas de deux called Urlicht) in his living room in 1976. Since then--as a choreographer with the Stuttgart Ballet; then as head of [...]

As Ashley Bouder runs onto the stage and into a crisp, high pas de chat, arms held overhead in delight, there is no doubt that she is queen of that [...]

NEW YORK CITY BALLET NEW YORK STATE THEATER, NEW YORK, NY JANUARY 4-FFBRUARY 27, 2005 The highlight of the first half of New York City Ballet's winter season was unquestionably [...]

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 10-JULY 3, 2004 American Ballet Theatre's spring season always pulls out ballet's big guns to showcase its stars and [...]

In the adagio solo at the center of George Balanchine's Square Dance, Peter Boal exudes a beautiful meditative melancholy from each perfectly articulated phrase. Never overtly virtuosic, never overly dramatic, [...]

In the spring of 1916 in St. Petersburg, the young Georgi Balanchivadze performed the pas de trois from Paquita with Alexandra Danilova and Lydia Ivanova at the Maryinsky Theater in [...]

Dance as a profession has unquestionably been the province of youth. English ballet critic Arnold Haskell, reporting on a 1925 Ballets Russes season in Monte Carlo, dwelt on Alicia Markova, [...]

After the harrowing task of electing a new president and several hundred mayors, France settled down to the serious business of summer festivals. Of some six hundred such gatherings, covering [...]

Perhaps the most striking thing about the ballets of William Forsythe is the way these works make classical dance seem as valid and exploratory a form of contemporary art as [...]

The career of choreographer Trisha Brown has taken Oregon to New York, to France and back. In her 1994 solo If You Couldn't See Me, Trisha Brown performs a beautiful, [...]

PETER BOAL & COMPANY THE JOYCE THEATER, NEW YORK, NY MARCH 16-21, 2004 It's hard to believe that Peter Boal, a much-loved New York City Ballet principal dancer and full-time [...]

JOYCE THEATER DECEMBER 17, 1996-JANUARY 5, 1997 REVIEWED BY ROSLYN SULCAS The poster for Momix's fifteenth anniversary season features a naked woman in profile, head and one leg thrown back, [...]

A cult novel about black lesbian vampires might seem an improbable basis for a dance work, but then so are tales of sylphs and wilis--other kinds of female spirits who [...]

MONTPELLIER, France--This city in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France, situated between the Spanish border and the broad plains of the Camargue, is in many ways a typical southern European town. [...]

WITS THEATRE, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA MARCH 1-16, 1996 The South African Dance Umbrella is rather less well known than its British counterpart, from which arts consultant Phillip Stein and local [...]

[Editor's note: Roslyn Sulcas is a Dance Magazine Paris correspondent. She was born in South Africa.] CAPE TOWN--Ever since Nelson Mandela was freed, mutterings have been heard about the probable [...]

June 19-July 3,1995 Reviewed by Roslyn Sulcas Divided into three parts, Eidos: Telos, William Forsythe's most recent evening-length work, takes the spectator into a strange landscape of the mind, a [...]

For its second Paris season this year, Frankfurt Ballet presented two programs: an evening-length work, Alie/n a(c)tion, and a triple bill - The Vile Parody of Address, Steptext, and the […]

BRAZILIAN VERVE IN SEARCH OF VARIETY CISNE NEGRO THE JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK JUNE 26-30, 20011 The Cisne Negro company, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, offered a crowd-pleasing blend [...]

30 YEARS OF MODERN DANCE GARTH FAGAN DANCE JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 5, 2000 Garth Fagan's new Trips and Trysts remained the one constant on the [...]

The most interesting thing about the Trisha Brown Dance Company's May 2-14, 2000, season at the Joyce Theater was the appearance of the choreographer herself in four solos, one of [...]

THE GOTEBORG OPERA BALLET OPERA HOUSE GOTEBORG, SWEDEN NOVEMBER 6-28, 1999 William Forsythe's new work, Endless House, is surprising in almost every way. It begins on the vast opera house [...]

THE FRANKFURT BALLET OPERNHAUS AND TAT BOCKENHEIMER DEPOT FRANKFURT, GERMANY OCTOBER 16-24, 1999 William Forsythe's new work, Endless House, is surprising in almost every way. It begins on the vast [...]

KLAPSTUK FESTIVAL LEUVEN, BELGIUM OCTOBER 27-28, 1999 William Forsythe's new work, Endless House, is surprising in almost every way. It begins on the vast opera house stage that has been [...]

Astaire a Rogers Collection Volume 2 DVD; set $59.92; each $19.97. 'The new fast-stepping dancing pair!' announces the trailer for Flying Down to Rio before showing a snippet of Fred [...]

THE FORSYTHE COMPANY BOCKENHEIMER DEPOT, FRANKFURT, GERMANY APRIL 21-MAY 14, 2005 Three Atmospheric Studies, William Forsythe's first work for his new company, begins with a couple whirling upstage in a [...]

Principal dancer Nilas Martins had plenty on his plate during New York City Ballet's Winter Season as he rehearsed and performed in the many ballets that make up this company's [...]

In a brief email that reverberated around the dance world on May 30, William Forsythe, the acclaimed American choreographer who has headed Ballet Frankfurt since 1984, announced that Frankfurt's city [...]

Doug Varone and Dancers Joyce Theater New York, New York December 11-16, 2001 Doug Varone's new Approaching Something Higher began with the dancers walking onto a stage filled with hazy [...]

Stylish Hispanico Celebration Ballet Hispanico Joyce Theater New York, New York November 27-December 9, 2001 Ballet Hispanico's annual New York seasons are always a much-anticipated pleasure for the company's loyal [...]

Christopher House, artistic director and choreographer of Toronto Dance Theatre, has made some sixty-odd dance works since starting to choreograph in the late 1970s. It was only in 2000, however, [...]

Just one performance on an unfamiliar stage in a new city is a tough deal for a touring company--particularly when it's New York City, where critical response can, rightly or [...]

DECEMBER 10-13, 1997 REVIEWED BY ROSLYN SULCAS Before disbanding his company in 1995, Ralph Lemon made eloquent, formal dances in which rigorously structured, sensuously textured movement was both a means [...]

During Alwin Nikolais's long career, Murray Louis played the role of apprentice, teaching and performing alongside his mentor and companion, even as he headed his own company and made his [...]

Graeme Murphy, artistic director of Sydney Dance Company, just might be the Maurice Bejart of modern dance. In his 1996 work, Free Radicals, which the Australian company presented during its [...]

SEPTEMBER 16-21, 1997 REVIEWED BY ROSLYN SULCAS A blurring of boundaries between audience and performer, text filtering across the dance, enigmatic personal vignettes delivered with impassioned verve, lighting used to [...]

The New York Baroque Dance Company, founded in 1976 by Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby, has established itself as an authoritative source of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dance styles. At the [...]

DanceAfrica began almost by accident when choreographer Chuck Davis was invited, in 1977, to bring his company to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Davis invited other groups that shared his [...]

The New York City Ballet's inestimable heritage of Balanchine works and its intensive schedule -- seven performances a week, each one a different mix drawn from a selection of works [...]

In Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, Clara is a grandmother and Drosselmeier a cartoon-scary figure of Death; the Sugar Plum Fairy is 'Sugar Rum Cherry'; and the genteel Europeans of [...]

CAPE TOWN DECEMBER 5-23, 1995; DECEMBER 29. 1995-JANUARY 6, 1996 What place does formal theatrical dance have in the new South Africa? Long a bastion of classical dance (the heritage [...]

STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA JANUARY 10-13 1996 What place does formal theatrical dance have in the new South Africa? Long a bastion of classical dance (the heritage of its colonial past) [...]

LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY THEATRE DE LA VILLE, PARIS NOVEMBER 21-25, 1995 REVIEWED BY ROSLYN SULCAS The geometries in Lucinda Childs's work look inevitable but are never predictable. In From [...]

The Paris Opera Ballet School, the oldest dance school in the western world, was established in 1713 by the reigning King of France, Louis XIV. In his youth (and before [...]

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, one of the ballets brought by the Kirov to France for its two-month saison russe, is a genuine curiosity. The four-act, son-of-Petipa ballet, based on a [...]

PARIS--Since the early 1980s, dance in France has benefited from an amount of state subsidy that astonishes artists in the United States of America, who are accustomed to the necessity [...]