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City Ballet’s Spring Season Confirms: Alexei Ratmansky Is a Master Choreographer

The five ballets he’s made for NYCB are the cream of the crop.

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ABT This Season So Far: In With the New, Out With the Old

A.B.T. is in the midst of its annual warhorse-a-thon at the Met—Giselle and Don Quixote behind us, Le Corsaire winding down, Swan Lake coming up fast, and Onegin on the horizon.

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The Next Generation of City Ballet Stars Are on the Way

The annual School of American Ballet Workshop performance features who’s heading for City Ballet, how strong the current teaching has been, and—if we’re lucky—catch a glimpse of a potentially major...

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Martha, Merce and Some Others Launch the Summer Season

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the most interesting choreography I’ve seen in the last few weeks was by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.

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Misty Copeland and the LA Philharmoic Fail to Deliver Graceful Debut

The event could have been an epic spectacular, but viewers left wanting more.

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Tchaikovsky Carries the Ball for ABT This Spring Season

The recently deceased A.B.T. spring season at the Met was like all A.B.T. spring seasons—exhausting and exhilarating.

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‘Jewels’: Three Ballets, Three Companies and a Glorious Debut

For the 50th anniversary of Balanchine’s 'Jewels,' a mix-and-match.

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Misty Copeland is the New Face of Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse Fragrance

Copeland joins other big names such as Kendall Jenner and Stephanie Seymour as the company's newest spokesmodel.

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In Ballet About a Ballet, ‘The Red Shoes’ Fails to Deliver Impeccable Dancing

This production makes for good laughs and memorable moments, but if you’re looking to see an impeccable classical performance, this ballet won’t deliver.

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Twyla Tharp Is Back With a New Dance Set to Dylan’s Love Songs

"What’s brilliant, what’s thrilling, is the torrent of dance invention Tharp brings to each solo and duet."

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To Dress or Not to Dress

At Skirball, six fellow members of the audience rose from their seats and quietly removed their garments, then tactfully mounted the stage. (It was not the last thing they mounted.)

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Long Performances at ‘Fall for Dance’; A Short Career Farewelled at City Ballet

'Fall for Dance' isn't meant to have a theme, but you can't help but note certain similarities. Of this years offerings, the common ground was length.

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American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Season: Mixed Repertory With Mixed Results

The recent ABT fall season at the Koch was short and mostly sweet, with one masterpiece—Frederick Ashton’s 'Symphonic Variations'.

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5 Most Anticipated Art Projects and Performances at Performa 2017

The influential biannual performance arts festival launches November 1 in New York.

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Dying for Art in ‘The Red Shoes’; Dying for Love in ‘Layla and Majnun’

As if to demonstrate the contrast between tremendous talent and tremendous lack of same, last week also brought us 'The Red Shoes' at City Center, and a remarkable new work by Mark Morris at Lincoln...

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Obituaries by Rex Reed: Everyone (Who’s Anyone) Who Died in 2017

Thank you for making so many other people's movies better than they deserved.

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Ailey Goes on Hunting for Stronger Repertory

Ailey's new artistic director, Robert Battle, is going here, there, everywhere in response to the company’s perpetual need to identify a repertory worthy of its dancers.

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New York City Ballet Today…But Tomorrow?

New York City Ballet's artistic director Peter Martins resigned under allegations of misconduct. The company managed a successful winter season, but its future is unclear.

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Small Donations Make or Break Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations

Tulle tutus alone cost at least $3,000 each.

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Paul Taylor’s Enterprise Marches On

It the newest Paul Taylor Dance Company season, his latest work, 'Concertiana,' is the news. It's Taylor's best in a long time, and signals a passing of the baton to a set of young dancers: Alex...

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