Film
Dancing Rodin’s Sensual Poses
PARIS — Dance that pushes sensual and temporal boundaries and sculpture that pushes formal boundaries share a solid connection while simultaneously remaining, in many respects, in distinct opposition.
Dance
Art
On the Shore of the Hudson, an Occasion to Simply Be
BEACON, NY — "All right, folks, Beacon will be next ... Beacon next, Beeeeaa-con Beacon Beacon," says a Metro-North conductor in my headphones.
Performance
Dancing to the Glacial Rhythms of Ice
“There is no surer way to be derivative than to be unaware of your history,” dancer-choreographer Jody Sperling said in a 2014 interview.
Art
A Contemporary Khmer Dance and Poncho Designed for Rain
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — The sun sets, the stage lights turn on, and the conversations pause.
Performance
An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.
Performance
Restaging a 1979 Dance, Designed by Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg worked with dancers?
Performance
A Sultry and Subversive 'Snow White,' with Ball Gags and Pole Dancing
How many times you heard the tale of Snow White? Surely you remember the pole dancing, the wigs made of large birdcages, and the lithe male bodies dusted with gold.
Art
A Tactile Tour of Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham's 1940s Dance Sets
For over three decades, Martha Graham danced her most compelling choreography on and around the abstract sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.
Art
How Five American Indian Dancers Transformed Ballet in the 20th Century
Five dancers who started their careers in the 1940s redefined dance in the United States, becoming some of the first American prima ballerinas in the world's top companies, from the Ballets Russes to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Art
A Battle Between Body, Blood, and Bile Through Dance and Sculpture
MIAMI — The idea that a balance of four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile — determines the health of our bodies was once prevalent in Western medicine, and is reinterpreted in a visceral collaboration between sculptor Martha Friedman and dancer Silas Riener.
Performance
Dancing Around the Issue of Surveillance
Audiences entering the black box space of BAM Fisher in Brooklyn for More up a Tree found a transparent room containing a man sprawled on his back, and a woman nervously pacing.
Art
Isadora Duncan in Watercolor, by the Artist Who Painted Her Thousands of Times
At the Paris studio of Auguste Rodin in 1906, Siberia-born American painter Abraham Walkowitz met modern dancer Isadora Duncan.