"Uprising," with, from left, Marcus Jarrell Willis, Jeroboam Bozeman and Yannick Lebrun, was part of the Alvin Ailey company’s opening night at City Center.
Apart from half of the choreography, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s opening-night gala was inspiring, admirable, restorative, happy.
Neil Greenberg presented his new work at New York Live Arts, a slyly christened piece called “This.”
In “On Behalf of Nature,” Meredith Monk’s dance becomes a provocative advocate for the natural world.
November 27, 2014
A slideshow of arts events taking place across the world this coming week.
November 26, 2014
Those balletomanes who have never quite recovered from Peter Boal’s retirement, 10 years ago, as a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, can throw off the mourning garb. Mr. Boal, who left to become the artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet, will be back at City Ballet — for just one performance — as Herr Drosselmeier in “The Nutcracker” at the matinee of Dec. 13.
Mr. Macdonald, a director and choreographer, worked with classical, contemporary and regional material, from Bach to Gilbert and Sullivan and on to Leonard Cohen.
Doug Varone and Dancers bring a world and a New York premiere to the Joyce.
Suzanne Farrell’s company displays her approach in a program of five works at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
“Great Russian Nutcracker” is the Moscow Ballet’s take on this classic, with choreography by Stanislav Vlasov.
Philip Henry Duclos plays the Nutcracker and Sterling Hyltin the Sugarplum Fairy in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” from New York City Ballet.
The Lyon Opera Ballet presents works by William Forsythe as part of the Festival d’Automne celebration of him in Paris.
Linda Celeste Sims, who joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1996, is one of the troupe’s most soulful dancers, with a subtle power that is only deepening.
Ms. Hinkson, known for her dramatic power, was one of the first two black dancers to join the company.
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Kaitlyn Gilliland of New York City Ballet had to retire at 24 because of major injuries, but at 27, she has found her way back and fallen in love with dance all over again.
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