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What Does ‘Post-Emerging’ Look Like in Today’s Dance Landscape?

Fresh Tracks, at New York Live Arts, showcases early-career dance makers. This year’s talented crop wonders about next steps.

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Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Dance Theater of Harlem Star, Dies at 74

A founding dancer with the groundbreaking company, she served not only as a principal dancer but also as its first…

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Review: At New York City Ballet’s Gala, the Usual With a Twist

The two premieres — one by Justin Peck, one by Amy Hall Garner — were gala-style pieces that felt more…

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Love, War and the Refugee Crisis, Set to the Music of Sting

In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a…

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These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail

THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…

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Review: Noche Flamenca, Raising the Dead With Goya

In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.

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Saddling Up and Feeling Spry at Martha Graham

Under the banner “American Legacies,” the Martha Graham Dance Company dusted off a classic, “Rodeo,” premiered a companion piece and…

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Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear

In the studio, filled with light, I watch my boyfriend, the artist and choreographer Matty Davis, as he dances beside…

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FKA twigs Dances Martha Graham: ‘This Is Art in Its Truest Form’

Once a young bunhead, the acclaimed musical artist is taking the stage with the Martha Graham Dance Company. For her,…

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Ushio Amagatsu, Japanese Dancer Who Popularized Butoh, Dies at 74

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime…

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