Performance
A Fantasia of Queer Kink Channeled Through Dance
This experimental dance show has everything: astronauts, Furries, the national anthem, a pyramid of cocaine, Pope John Paul II.
Dance
Art
Dances of Doom and Transcendence
Choreographer Gillian Walsh takes on dance as a "suicidal tendency" and considers mysticism in a time of global crisis.
Performance
The Audacity and Abandon of Pina Bausch
In Café Müller and The Rite of Spring, currently playing as a double bill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tanztheater Wuppertal offers up catharsis followed by brutal physicality.
Interview
“I Do Believe in a Speaking Brown Body”: Okwui Okpokwasili’s Dance Becomes a Documentary
The dancer and choreographer's breakout solo performance Bronx Gothic is the subject of a new documentary by Andrew Rossi at Film Forum.
Art
A Festival Explodes Expectations of Queer Dance at JACK
The EXPLODE! queer dance festival runs June 22 to 24 and gathers a range of styles and sensibilities, from Irish step dancing to drag.
Art
Seven Collaborations Between Women Choreographers and Artists
Happening April 7–9, Norte Maar and Brooklyn Ballet's CounterPointe series pairs visual artists with choreographers who are making new work for pointe.
Art
A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.
Performance
An Episode of Immersive Theater Unravels for an Audience of Five
Here is a new series of immersive theater experiences in New York that will link an evolving web of characters and storylines propelled by loss.
Performance
From Treadmill to Tape, a Series of Unsettling Dance Vignettes
The Batsheva Dance Company’s Last Work features a dancer running on a treadmill for the entire length of the performance, while the ensemble physically enacts a series of non-narrative scenes.
Performance
The Dances of the Slavic Goddesses
Artist Paulina Olowska collaborated with choreographer Katy Pyle to create a suite of solo dances based a 1918 series of prints depicting Slavic deities.
Performance
Conceptual Dance Lite: Jérôme Bel's Elemental Choreography
For more than twenty years, the French choreographer has pioneered a kind of dance that highlights the biography and particularity of the performer.
Performance
Remembering and Reframing the Legacy of a Choreographer Lost to AIDS
A new dance work based on material by the choreographer John Bernd, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1988 at age 35, is the centerpiece of Danspace Project's annual Platform series.