next@90 – Part 1 of 3 by Leigh Witchel Sometimes risky ideas work out. Sometimes they just go bad. The next@90 Festival at San Francisco Ballet…
Arresting Images, Cryptic Motives by Leigh Witchel The National Ballet of Canada made its first visit to New York City in 15 years, bringing…
Preservation by Leigh Witchel Female choreographers vied for top billing with Mother Nature at the Battery Dance Festival this year. The…
Music Box by Leigh Witchel Is a dance still interesting with the music turned off? It’s a useful test: choreography shouldn’t just…
Ingenuity and Transformation by Leigh Witchel What is Pilobolus without ingenuity? The company celebrated its 50th birthday at The Joyce with a potpourri…
Pageantry by Leigh Witchel An eternal question: How do we respect the past while bringing it to the present? “One Dance,”…
Season’s Close by Leigh Witchel American Ballet Theatre’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House, its first under the direction of Susan Jaffe,…
A Cool Lake by Leigh Witchel It was chilly at the Lake this summer. In American Ballet Theatre’s two-decades-plus-old production of “Swan Lake,”…
Eclectic by Leigh Witchel There are two words in “Joffrey Ballet Concert Group” that need further explanation: Joffrey and Ballet. Robert…
In Bloom by Leigh Witchel Catherine Hurlin’s New York debut as Giselle was auspicious. American Ballet Theatre played its hand wisely, letting…