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Dance | Dance on Camera: Showing Dance on Film, Kirov to Busby Berkeley

Posted: January 7th, 2009, 5:52am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

The Dance on Camera festival does a stalwart service in bringing together a selection of new features and shorts.

A Stitch Here, a Dye Job There and a Little Creative Guessing

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 7:09am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

The holidays are anything but calm at the New York City Ballet costume shop, where last-minute fittings coincide with preparation for the opening of the company’s repertory season on Tuesday.

Dance: Land of Sugarplums Is the Bread and Butter of the Holiday Season

Posted: December 16th, 2008, 5:23am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Schools and small troupes in Manhattan and Brooklyn accounted for at least five local productions of “The Nutcracker” presented last weekend.

Dance: Choreographer Studies His Nonchalance

Posted: December 5th, 2008, 6:20pm GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Benjamin Millepied makes the most of his creative opportunities.

Dance Review | Urban Bush Women and Jant-Bi: Crossing Continents to Explore History and Identity

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Les Écailles de la Mémoire,” an exploration of black identity, has perfect timing politically speaking, but is only intermittently compelling to watch.

Dance Review | Parallel Exit: Never Too Old to Tap? Three Aging Hoofers Decide to Find Out

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 6:42am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Time Step,” a three-man tap show by the company Parallel Exit, which specializes in works inspired by the films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, brought lucid physical comedy to the Joyce SoHo.

Dance Review | Wave Rising Series: Effortless Leverages From Floor to Air

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

On Wednesday night at John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn, the second gala in the Wave Rising Series showcased the six companies that will perform through this weekend.

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Dance Review | Dance Theater Workshop: Who’s Watching Whom? Only the Mirror Can Tell

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:42am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Sublime is Us,” a dance piece by Luciana Achugar that is performed before a large mirror, is alternately fascinating and boring.

Dance Review: Improvising Moves Inspired by Words, Music and Life

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:53pm GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Mark Lamb and his company managed to put together an effective evening that consisted largely of improvised dance at the Metro Baptist Church on Sunday night.

Dance Review | 'Breaking Ground': On the Fly: Five Easy Pieces, Among the Douglases and Lockheeds

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:13am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette” is an annual initiative that gives five choreographers the task of creating a five-minute work at a site revealed only five days before performances.

Dance Review | BalletMet Columbus: Politics to Dracula: A Cascade of Ballet

Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 7:11am GMT by By Roslyn Sulcas

One of the works on the program offered by BalletMet Columbus, which opened at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, was Warren Adams’s “Audacious One,” widely promoted as a dance about Senator Barack Obama.

Dance World Congregates to Bestow the Bessies

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 4:45am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

On Monday night, the New York Dance and Performance Awards, presented for the first time at Spiegelworld at South Street Seaport, offered the usual touching moments.

Dance Review | Lar Lubovitch Dance Company: Ever the Body Graceful (No Pesky Navel Gazing)

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:29am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, which performed in Battery Park on Friday, offers pretty works often set to popular scores, but all that grace and sweep and poise can feel bland after a while.

Dance: Lessons in Dance and Life, on Paper and on Screen

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

A film version of Noel Streatfeild’s “Ballet Shoes,” about three adopted sisters who attend a stage school in Bloomsbury, will be released on DVD in the United States on Tuesday.

Dance Review | 'Vanishing Point': The Tombstones Have It

Posted: June 29th, 2008, 9:21pm GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

“Vanishing Point,” by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, is loosely centered on the idea of a funeral. (Web exclusive)

Dance: O Romeo, Romeo, Wilst Thou Smile at This Finale?

Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:06am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Mark Morris’s take on “Romeo and Juliet” uses a newly discovered score by Prokofiev that gives surprising life to Shakespeare’s doomed young lovers.

Dance Review: Entrances That Open an Upside-Down World

Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:35am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

A soft knocking seems like an appropriate beginning for a work titled “Doors.” And it comes, on a child-size door, at the start of the Apparatus Theater Group’s performance at the New Theater in New Haven.

A Night of Dance, Face Paint and Social Commentary

Posted: May 31st, 2008, 1:25am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Christopher Caines presented “Exquisite Hour” as part of “An Evening of Dance Works,” the final program, in the Annex, of the “La MaMa Moves!” dance festival.

Dance Review: A Feast of Fancies in Three Robbins Works

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:38am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

The titles that the New York City Ballet chooses for its programs can seem gimmicky, but “All American Fare” is exactly right for the evening of ballets by Jerome Robbins that opened on Tuesday.

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Dance Review | Paris Opera Ballet: Bringing Balanchine’s ‘Four Temperaments’ to a Fevered Pitch

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:54am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

Wilfried Romoli, one of the Paris Opera Ballet’s stars, brought exceptional presence and intensity to his final performance on Tuesday.

Dance Review: Catapulted Into the Present Tense

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 3:01am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

The Kirov Ballet’s performances at City Center over the last two weeks exemplify the way that classical dance can appear dazzlingly lightweight.

Dance Review: Provoked by a Force of Nature

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:13am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

A performance can occasionally provoke near-simultaneous sensations of impatience, irritation, fascination and curiosity. Such was the case on Wednesday during Wendy Osserman’s new “Out of Place."

Dance Review: Exotica of Brazil in Motion

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS

For those who would like a virtual trip to Brazil, Grupo Corpo offers a safe adventure.