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Acclaimed Modern Dance Company Ushers in Spring with "Encuentros" Acclaimed NYC-based Modern Dance Company Invited to Mexico City PHOTO Caption. For the complete listing…
Largest Festival of Colors in Jersey City & Hoboken This Weekend
New York, N.Y. The largest festival of colors celebration in America, Surati Holi Hai, will attract more than 15,000 revelers from all over the world and span across two…
Art Triumphant: Our Foundation's Artist-in-Residence on Cuban Ballet
New York, N.Y. I first met the accomplished South African native Nan Melville about a decade ago through the Indo-American Arts Council where I was on the Board. Nan is a…
An Exercise in Empathy: cullen + them's Spring Messaround
Company member Gabriel Nieto (right) dances with an attendee at cullen + them's Spring Messaround. Photo by Em Watson, Courtesy cullen + them. New York, N.Y. MESSAROUND /…
Dance Meets Journalism: Brick by Brick Dance's New Work Addresses the Immigrant Experience
Rohan Bhargava and Alexandra Montalbano in Somehow We End Up Here, Again . Photo by Thomas Sarvello, Courtesy Bates. New York, N.Y. It takes a certain skill to make a pie…
One for the Ladies: inQuad at Dixon Place
Lindsey L. Miller in her Impulse . Photo by Andrew Mauney, Courtesy inQuad. New York, N.Y. Dixon Place, a performing arts venue in Lower Manhattan, has a reputation for u…
Pool Play 2.0—This Is Not A Theatre Company
Pool Play 2.0. Photo by Maria Baranova, Courtesy This Is Not A Theatre Company New York, N.Y. Given the freezing weather that has continued to plague New York City into M…
Take Root at Green Space: Kaley Pruitt Dance and URBAN/TRIBE
Queens, N.Y. In January, Green Space’s monthly curated performance series, Take Root, hosted Kaley Pruitt Dance and U R B A N / T R I B E. The former presented a clever d…
The Experience of Nourishment: What does it feel like to grow up?
The ensemble of Nourishment: What does it feel like to grow up? Photo by Jeffrey Lee (On the Spot Image), Courtesy Gussman. Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s not every dance show that…
Abstracting Entertainment: Rovaco Dance Co. at Alchemical Theater
Jared McAboy and Mariel Harris in "Azadi". Photo credit Ezra Goh Photography, Courtesy Rovaco. New York, N.Y. In their first evening-length performance engagement at the…
Architecture Made Tactile: Gabrielle Lamb's Pigeonwing Dance at Baruch PAC
Pigeonwing Dance in Gabrielle Lamb's Bewilderness. New York, N.Y. On November 20, Baruch Performing Arts Center presented a pair of works by Gabrielle Lamb, a 2014 Prince…
Cameron McKinney|Kizuna Dance 2016 Season Kickoff
The women of Kizuna Dance in "Three Poisons" Brooklyn, N.Y. “I wanted you to be close enough to see them sweat,” Cameron McKinney says to a smattering of chuckles from th…
DraftWork: The Median Movement and Brother(hood) Dance! at St. Mark's Danspace Project
New York, N.Y. On a beautiful but cold Saturday afternoon I wandered into St. Mark’s Church in the East Village. Danspace Project had, as is their wont, reoriented the sa…
Emerging Choreographer's Series: Mare Nostrum Elements & LPAC Present Rohan Bhargava, Marissa Brown
Nico Gonzales in Rohan Bhargava's The Devil's Advocate Queens, N.Y. Last week, on a cold, rainy Tuesday, I ventured out to LaGuardia Performing Arts Center to catch the l…
Hellenic Education Continues Thanks to The Orpheus Luxury Collection
New York, N.Y. In synchrony with their philosophy of "indulging in the finer things in life for a deep appreciation of humanity and nature," The Orpheus Luxury Collection…
Interview: Founder, South Asian Performing Arts Festival NYC
New York, N.Y. Recently I had the privilege of spending a day with the multi-talented Arpita Mukherjee, co-founder of the South Asian International Performing Arts Festiv…
Origins and Adopted Cultures: Da-On Dance presents ROOT
Da-On Dance in ROOT. New York, N.Y. With ROOT , which was at the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance Center October 15 and 16, Da-On Dance artistic director and choreo…
Schedule for International Day of Happiness at the United Nations
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS AT THE UNITED NATIONS Sunday, 20 March 2016 The Permanent Missions of the Republic of Palau to the United Nations The Permanent Mission of…
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Celebrates Ten Years at Green Space
Jonathan Matthews and Hana Ginsburg Tirosh in Impermanent Landscape. Queens, N.Y. A low murmur greets the audience, five dancers speaking quiet snatches of phrases as the…
Ash & Honey: ChristinaNoel & The Creature's 2015 Winter Gala
Artistic Director ChristinaNoel Reaves & honoree Gus Solomons Jr. Photo credit Quentin Burley New York, N.Y. With characteristic generosity, an unflagging sense of fun, a…
Concert to Celebrate Diversity with World Heritage Cultural Center
"I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside." - Actress Alexia Fast Danbury, CT. The World Heritage Cultura…
W H A L E: Andrea Miller's Gallim Dance at The Joyce Theater
New York, N.Y. Andrea Miller’s work is not for everyone. Case in point: when the performance of W H A L E , Miller’s latest work for Gallim Dance , reached intermission a…
Where Have All The Glaciers Gone? Climate Change Theatre Action
Colin Waitt in Where Have All the Glaciers Gone? New York, N.Y. Friday evening I walked into a New York University building, shed my scarf, and took a seat in a small whi…
Jonathan Hollander’s Battery Dance Company 38 Years Later
New York, N.Y. I’ve always considered myself fortunate to meet the people who are doing big things—positively impacting lives in meaningful ways. Recently I met a kindred…
The Stewardship Report Announces Editorial Calendar
New York, N.Y. A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still in sof…
Sundance Film Afghan Star Incredible
New York, N.Y. Thirty years ago people could sing and dance in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban took control, instituted Sharia law and, as described in the film The Kite Ru…