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Pam Tanowitz's 'Day for Night' flows with and against the current of its surroundings, reflecting the park's strange mix of the natural and man-made. In the work of the choreographer […]

Under the banner ''American Legacies,'' the Martha Graham Dance Company dusted off a classic, ''Rodeo,'' premiered a companion piece and welcomed FKA twigs for a guest solo at City Center. [...]

In ''Until the Lion Tells the Story...,'' Lacina Coulibaly walks in his ancestors' footsteps. In his solo ''Until the Lion Tells the Story...,'' the dancer and choreographer Lacina Coulibaly is [...]

In ''Until the Lion Tells the Story...,'' Lacina Coulibaly walks in his ancestors' footsteps. In his solo ''Until the Lion Tells the Story...,'' the dancer and choreographer Lacina Coulibaly is [...]

In Ursula Eagly's ''Dream Body Body Building'' at the Chocolate Factory, the dancers seem to be transmitting a dream state to the audience. For the first stretch of ''Dream Body [...]

Molissa Fenley's ''From the Light, Between the Lamps,'' a collection of short works, is a steady, rigorous exploration of movement to music. The choreographer Molissa Fenley oversaw one of the [...]

In her funny and fidgety way, the choreographer Michelle Ellsworth presents new works that probe the uses and limits of language and movement. ''I should try and solve some problems,'' [...]

The South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo's ''The Sacrifice,'' at the Joyce Theater, responds to Pina Bausch. Over the past decade, the South African choreographer Dada Masilo has become [...]

In ''Yes and Yes,'' at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to ''Ulysses,'' true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one. Some dances emerge [...]

Bobbi Jene Smith's ''Broken Theater'' is perhaps the most high-profile offering at La MaMa Moves!, but other programs were just as memorable. About 20 minutes into ''Broken Theater,'' at La [...]

Kathy Westwater's dances at the Chocolate Factory, ''Revolver'' and ''Choreomaniacs,'' build on her focused movement investigations of the last 20 years. For Kathy Westwater's new diptych of dances, ''Revolver'' and [...]

At New York City Center, a characteristically generous Casel presents works by other choreographers as well as her own ''Where We Dwell V.2.'' The tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel [...]

The contemporary dance group Bereishit performed two works by its founder, Park Soon-ho, at NYU Skirball. The South Korean contemporary dance company Bereishit takes its name from the first word [...]

Israel Galván brought a new iteration of his visually pared-down, danced-without-music ''Solo'' to Baryshnikov Arts Center. The dancer Israel Galván, known for his irreverent deconstructions of flamenco, has been performing [...]

The interdisciplinary Out-FRONT! fills a gap in the dance calendar, showing incandescent works like Jasmine Hearn's ''Salt and Spirit.'' For obsessive dance-goers, it's been a while since January in New [...]

The Indigenous artist Daina Ashbee's first group piece, at the Gibney, simmers with tension and offers an approach to healing. At the beginning of Daina Ashbee's ''J'ai Pleuré Avec les [...]

Vertigo Dance Company's ''Pardes'' is handsomely constructed if occasionally contrived. The title of Vertigo Dance Company's newest touring work, ''Pardes,'' is the Hebrew word for orchard, or garden of trees, [...]

Ivy Baldwin's defiant and poignant work for four dancers at the Chocolate Factory Theater is the outcome of deeply considered collaboration. A hum turns into a grunt turns into a [...]

A celebration of lineage, of artistic ancestors, was central to LaTasha Barnes's ''The Jazz Continuum,'' a show I loved so much I saw it twice during its week at the [...]

The most intriguing aspects of Dimitris Papaioannou's ''Transverse Orientation'' arise from a tension between grandeur and simplicity. A naked man mounts a bull. A bull gives birth to a naked [...]

Two classics, ''In the Upper Room'' and ''Nine Sinatra Songs,'' share a program at City Center. When a dance like Twyla Tharp's ''In the Upper Room'' (1986) -- one of [...]

In a joyous program at the Joyce Theater, Barnes and company show the relationships among Black social dance forms. It's all connected, and it's all jazz. At the beginning of [...]

Rainer, who has said ''Hellzapoppin': What About the Bees?,'' will be her last dance, tackles race, if at a puzzling remove. In Yvonne Rainer's vast body of work, the term [...]

The annual smorgasbord at New York City Center features dancers from Music from the Sole, the Bavarian State Ballet and Alvin Ailey. With its something-for-everyone ethos, the Fall for Dance [...]

Momix's latest show, now at the Joyce Theater, is inspired by Lewis Carroll's ''Alice in Wonderland.'' The dance critic Edwin Denby once wrote, ''Daily life is wonderfully full of things [...]

Gibney Company presents ''Up Close, a program of boundary-teasing works by three choreographers. From the first moments of the Gibney Company's ''Up Close'' program, at New York Live Arts, the [...]

In a delayed celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Brown company presented two dazzling works she made with Robert Rauschenberg. The dancer Cecily Campbell is alone onstage when you begin [...]

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Ballet Hispánico takes on a new challenge: its first full-length ballet, with choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Ballet Hispánico, founded in 1970, has been honoring its [...]

The starry program ''Twyla Now,'' at New York City Center, ends with a dazzling premiere featuring dancers who could be the stars of tomorrow. A few minutes into ''All In,'' [...]

A program of works by the former Alvin Ailey member Hope Boykin is about stepping into a surer sense of herself. In a company like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, [...]

If not for the crowd gathered around, you could have missed her: reclining in the branches of a tree, as if dozing in her natural habitat, a woman adorned in [...]

As audience members filed into the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night, Bill T. Jones was already there, a lone figure on a vast dance floor. Elevated seating, on all [...]

The ''In Plain Site'' program, delayed two days by stormy weather, was worth the wait. After more than a year of performing and teaching online, the Trisha Brown Dance Company [...]

Earlier this week I crouched on my living room floor, laptop open before me, in the small space that for the past year has contained so much of my physical [...]

A woman stands onstage, hunched over in what looks like a bulky snowsuit, the outer shell of many layers soon to be revealed. In a meticulous undressing, she peels away [...]

Byline: ALASTAIR MACAULAY, GIA KOURLAS, SIOBHAN BURKE and BRIAN SEIBERT In a year that brought its political and cultural troubles, it's heartening to note how diverse kinds of dance made [...]

The most enlightened assessment of New York Theater Ballet's ''The Nutcracker'' would probably come from a child between the ages of 3 and 8. Such is the target demographic for [...]

Over the past 12 months, Tere O'Connor's ''Bleed'' has lived a full life. This bountiful, beautiful, labyrinthine dance had its premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last December, and [...]

Since 2011, when Robert Battle became the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, his choice of new repertory has been the subject of much scrutiny. This season's arrivals, [...]

For the dancers of the Juilliard School, the fall semester is all about taking part in a creative process. (Spring is the time for learning classics.) Each year, four choreographers, [...]

For the dancers of the Juilliard School, the fall semester is all about taking part in a creative process. (Spring is the time for learning classics.) Each year, four choreographers, [...]

Love is complicated, isn't it? In case you needed a reminder, the Hungarian duo Radioballet has choreographed ''The Nature of Love.'' On Friday at Abrons Arts Center's Experimental Theater, the [...]

Andrea Kleine might be younger and less famous than Yvonne Rainer, but she and that postmodern dance pioneer have a few things in common. Both are choreographers and writers. Both [...]

Love is complicated, isn't it? In case you needed a reminder, the Hungarian duo Radioballet has choreographed ''The Nature of Love.'' On Friday at Abrons Arts Center's Experimental Theater, the [...]

''Why are you in there?'' a visitor asked the woman behind bars. The woman was the performance artist Ann Liv Young, and she was all dolled up in a free-standing [...]

Andrea Kleine might be younger and less famous than Yvonne Rainer, but she and that postmodern dance pioneer have a few things in common. Both are choreographers and writers. Both [...]

''Dawn,'' by the Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hod, is a very naked dance. At the beginning of this work, seen Sunday at the Abrons Arts Center Playhouse, four dancers -- from [...]

For its inaugural performance series at the newly renovated space at 280 Broadway, the Gibney Dance center passed the curatorial wand to a handful of respected choreographers. Each was asked [...]