Dance Review

Forward and Back at a Finale

By BRIAN SEIBERT

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Fall for Dance Festival: Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside performing Pontus Lidberg’s “This Was Written on Water” at City Center.

The Fall for Dance Festival closed on Sunday with works by Wayne McGregor, Pontus Lidberg, Aakash Odedra and Frederick Ashton.

Dance Review

Bringing Nature Inside With Space and Light

By SIOBHAN BURKE

The performance aspect of “Live Dancing Archive” shows the fruits of Jennifer Monson’s movement research.

Dance Review

The Art of Masks and Surfaces

By GIA KOURLAS

At Danspace Project, Luis Lara Malvacías and collaborators observed an early Halloween with “(T).”

October 22, 2014

Spring-Season Rockettes Show Is Reborn, With Weinstein’s Help

A new Rockettes show, “New York Spring Spectacular,” is the latest attempt to create an annual springtime attraction with the drawing power of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular.”

October 21, 2014

Bessie Awards Honor a Wide World of Dance

The Bessies have become a yes-to-everything kind of award presentation, bringing together stilt-walkers, break dancers and other stars of contemporary dance.

October 16, 2014

Hallberg and Osipova to Dance Together in American Ballet Theater’s Spring Season

One of the great ballet parings of recent years — David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova — will be reunited in New York City this spring during American Ballet Theater’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House.

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Critic’s Notebook

Russell Janzen and Sara Mearns made a potent pairing this month in Balanchine's

A Bountiful Season of Dizzying Challenges and New Peaks

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

New York City Ballet’s fall season brought rich fare and was powerfully eventful, with numerous premieres, a potent farewell and a flood of role debuts.

Critic’s Notebook

Steve Paxton does not see “Selected Works” as a retrospective.

A Choreographer Drawn to Change

By SIOBHAN BURKE

“Steve Paxton: Selected Works,” at Dia:Beacon, offers four pieces spanning the past 50 years of Mr. Paxton’s choreography career.

Critic’s Notebook

The ballerina Wendy Whelan at the curtain call following her farewell performance with New York City Ballet on Saturday night.

A Loving, Lingering Farewell Embrace

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Wendy Whelan gave her final performances with New York City Ballet after a 30-year career that created roles for some of the most notable ballets of the 21st century.

Dance Review

Fall for Dance Members of Rennie Harris Puremovement in “Students of the Asphalt Jungle” at City Center. Foreground, Shafeek Westbrook, with, from left, Raphael Xavier, Marcus Tucker and Andrew Ramsey.

Scenes From Ballet to an Asphalt Jungle

By BRIAN SEIBERT

The Fall for Dance Festival’s Program 4 featured a sampler that included ballet, hip-hop and contemporary dance.

Irina Kolpakova, one of the greatest Soviet-era ballerinas, has been teaching dancers at American Ballet Theater for 25 years.

A Teacher Who Bridges the Eras

By ROSLYN SULCAS

The ballet teacher Irina Kolpakova is currently preparing the cast of “Raymonda Variations,” for American Ballet’s Theater’s fall season, which opens Wednesday.

Dance

Tanztheater Wuppertal, founded by Pina Bausch, will perform “Kontakthof” in Brooklyn.

When Opposites Attract and Repel

By BRIAN SCHAEFER

Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” is one of her first works to investigate the game of emotional and sexual hide-and-seek in budding sexuality.

Dance Review

Beijing Dance Theater, with, foreground from left, Zhang Qiang and Li Cai, at the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Contemporary Choreography Woven From Poems of China’s Past

By SIOBHAN BURKE

The Beijing Dance Theater is performing a United States premiere, “Wild Grass,” as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Dance Review

Alessandra Ferri, center, with Juilliard School dancers in Lar Lubovitch's work

A Goddess Is Back, as Huntress

By GIA KOURLAS

A program by Lar Lubovitch at the Joyce Theater featured the renowned ballerina Alessandra Ferri in the role of the hunting goddess Artemis.

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Fall Arts Preview - Times 100

How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.