Dance Review

A Tale Outsmarting Itself, à la Hitchcock

By SIOBHAN BURKE

Brian Harkin for The New York Times

Alicia Ohs, left, and Carolyn Hall perform Sally Silvers’s "Actual Size" at Roulette in Brooklyn.

Sally Silvers invokes the mood, imagery and plots of the master of suspense in her work at Roulette.

Dance Review

Skewering the Pretensions of Their Rarefied Milieu

By BRIAN SEIBERT

Sending up the pretensions of experimental dance, Larissa Velez-Jackson presented her work “Star Crap Method” at the Chocolate Factory.

Dance Review

Choreographed Anecdotes in a New York Minute

By GIA KOURLAS

With “Story/Time #35,” at New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones began two weeks of reading one-minute tales as his dancers perform snippets from his company’s repertory.

November 4, 2014

Elisa Monte to Retire From Dance Company

Ms. Monte founded Elisa Monte Dance in 1981, and will be replaced as artistic director by Tiffany Rea-Fisher.

October 30, 2014

Peter Sellars to Direct Dance Event at Park Avenue Armory

“FLEXN” at the Park Avenue Armory, featuring 18 dancers from Brooklyn, will be directed by Peter Sellars.

October 29, 2014

BAM Season Offers a Mariinsky Residency and More

The Mariinsky Theater will open the season with a Rodion Shchedrin opera, “The Enchanted Warrior.”

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Beverly Blossom, Solo Dancer With a ‘Voice,’ Dies at 88

By JENNIFER DUNNING

Ms. Blossom was influenced by the work of Bertolt Brecht and studied in Germany with a dance teacher of the expressionist tradition.

Donald Saddler, standing, with Robert Morse in 1973.

Donald Saddler, Dancer, and a Choreographer on Broadway, Dies at 96

By BRUCE WEBER

A soloist with Ballet Theater, Mr. Saddler made his Broadway musical theater debut in 1947, and he went on to win two Tonys as a Broadway choreographer.

Raphaël Coumes-Marquet and Elena Vostrotina in ‘‘In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated.’’

At Autumn Festival in Paris, William Forsythe Is Everywhere

By ROSLYN SULCAS

A program brought to the Théâtre de la Ville by Dresden’s Semperoper Ballett highlighted some of the American choreographer’s important early works.

Dance Review

Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca are visiting the Joyce Theater, where Ms. Barrio, above, is offering her reinterpretation of a Sophocles drama.

Lighting a Flamenco Fire Under an Ancient Heroine

By GIA KOURLAS

In Noche Flamenca’s latest adventure, “Antigona,” at the Joyce Theater, the company travels to ancient Greece.

Dance Review

Chilling Story of Friendship and Death, Served Chilled

By SIOBHAN BURKE

The French choreographer Gisèle Vienne’s “Kindertotenlieder” explores a youthful murder.

Snapshot

Turning Heads in Tel Aviv

As told to BRIAN SCHAEFER

Shamel Pitts, a New York-born Juilliard graduate, talks about what it’s like to live in Tel Aviv as part of the Batsheva Dance Company.

Dance

Melissa Toogood and Dylan Crossman in “Actual Size” at Roulette.

Taking Directions From Hitchcock

By GIA KOURLAS

In the premiere of “Actual Size,” Sally Silvers uses Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” as the structural grid.

Benjamin Millepied, center, with Paris Opera Ballet dancers.

His Plan: Have One Eye on Everything

By ROSLYN SULCAS

Benjamin Millepied prepares for his first season as director of the Paris Opera Ballet.

Dance Listings for Oct. 31-Nov. 6

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