Reviews

Photo: The Painted Bride

The People Speak: Belle Alvarez & ILL DOOTS

Rhonda Moore

The questions remain: are you watching or doing, welcoming or rejecting, giving or taking?

Photo: Darcy Lyons

Heads Together; Feet in the Snow

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Lyons’ choreography sits over this duo’s relationship like an Instagram filter: they’re themselves, but a slightly different

Photo: Kailey Prior

Summoning and Embodying Black Ancestry

Thomas Choinacky

Kosoko's shapeshifting performance summons and witnesses radical thinkers.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Architectures of Time and Space

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Hellmut and Brenda hold the stage as centers of calm, strength, and wisdom amid BalletX’s young virtuosi.

Photo: Bill Hebert

I Wanted to Love You, Blood Wedding

Jenna Horton

Their bodies create a sense of enclosing dread, a weight that becomes too heavy without counter.

Photo: Subcircle

Hold Still While We Try to Figure This Out Together

Kirsten Kaschock

The piece exposes its own process, inviting the viewer to ask what it means to do this work.

Photo: Lauren Mandilian Huot

Absolution in the Witness, in the First Breath

Kat J. Sullivan

A single burst of color across a backdrop of white sheets.

Photo: Erin Baiano

Having Fun at the Ballet

Lynn Matluck Brooks

When was the last time you actually had fun seeing the ballet?

Photo: Stephanie Berger

Gallim’s Feet Skipping Around Solid Stone

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

Andrea Miller is the first ever Artist-in-Residence in dance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photo: Bruce Hooke

A Cool Cushion Between Realities

Ellen Chenoweth

It felt exactly right that a choreographer should be the one to lead this discovery of virtual reality's promise.