He Wants to Be a Ballerina. He Has Taken the First Steps.
Strict physical norms still matter in ballet. To dance in the female corps — a first in modern ballet — Chase Johnsey shed 20 pounds and remade his body.
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CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Nick Cave Wants You to Work It Out on the Dance Floor
In these anxious times, Mr. Cave thinks we all need a place to unfurl. He has turned the Park Avenue Armory into a giant dance floor for “The Let Go.”
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Creditan Rong Xu for The New York Times The Poetic Justice of Stella Abrera’s Juliet
Just after turning 40, the American Ballet Theater principal will dance the lead in “Romeo and Juliet,” the role she wouldn’t allow herself to dream about.
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CreditAndrea Mohin/The New York Times Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Has Charming Baubles, but Why Do It?
Alexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s 1900 ballet has charm. But our critic wonders if it really works as theater.
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Credit That ’70s Landscape of Funk
Watch a portion of “Funkedified,” Rennie Harris’s show at the New Victory Theater, about the funk origins of hip-hop dance and culture.
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Credit In ‘Bayadère,’ 24 Breathing as 1
Watch a portion of the hypnotic, otherworldly opening of the “Kingdom of the Shades” section from American Ballet Theater’s “La Bayadère.”
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Credit Drummers Dance, Dancers Drum
The BAM/Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, appearing at Dance Africa, give their all when dancing. They have also learned percussion skills. Watch our two videos.
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Credit Jerome Robbins, Serious and Not
Ashley Bouder of New York City Ballet performs part of a make-fun-of-yourself solo from Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering.”
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Credit Growing Up Giselle
In this variation from “Giselle,” the peasant girl Giselle turns into a woman, says American Ballet Theater principal Hee Seo, who dances a portion here.
