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    Review: Paul Taylor Classics Outshine New Dances (His and Others’)

    11. March 2018 Kourosh Maheri Top

    “Concertiana,” Mr. Taylor’s 147th work, received a premiere along with “The Beauty in Gray” by Bryan Arias and “Half Life” by Doug Varone.      

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    Critic’s Notebook: In Philadelphia, Ballet Neighbors Divided by Style

    11. March 2018 Kourosh Maheri Top

    BalletX presents full-bodied and engaging new ballets, while Pennsylvania Ballet offers a superficial “Swan Lake.”      

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    Get to Know the Colors on Paul Taylor’s Palette

    10. March 2018 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Five standout Taylor dancers talk about their careers in the company and working for a modern master who is still making dances at 87.      

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    Review: In ‘P.S. 122,’ Watching the Painters Paint and Scrape

    9. March 2018 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Yve Laris Cohen’s piece, honoring Painting Space 122, is a conversation between painting and performance.      

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    Girish Bhargava, Film Editor Who Captured Dance, Dies at 76

    19. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Whether in ‚ÄúDance in America‚Äù or ‚ÄúDirty Dancing,‚Äù Mr. Bhargava’s eye and sense of musicality were highly prized in translating dance to film.      

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    Critic’s Notebook: East Side, West Side: Lighting the Way, Darkly

    18. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Two new works by the choreographers Marjani Fort√©-Saunders and Gillian Walsh make dramatic use of the Manhattan spaces in which they are performed.      

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    Making (and Seeing) Dance in the Politicized World

    17. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Even dances with no obvious agenda have seemed like quiet protests recently. How are choreographers thinking about their work?      

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    Dance in NYC This Week

    16. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Our guide to dance performances.      

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    #SpeakingInDance: Eiko: Waking Herself Up

    16. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Eiko Otake performs ‚ÄúA Body in Places,‚Äù a shifting solo work related to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima      

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    Review: Good Art, Bad Men and Samuel Pepys in ‘17c’

    15. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Big Dance Theater’s animated investigation of Samuel Pepys reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.      

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    Critic’s Notebook: When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts

    14. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Yvonne Meier turned ordinary objects (tomatoes, Band-Aids) into tools for artistic expression; Jillian Sweeney engaged with memory and storytelling.      

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    Gillian Walsh, Taking Dance to a Still Place

    14. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Ms. Walsh, whose recent works involve minimal movement, talks about transcendence, seeing time, ‚ÄúDance Moms‚Äù and what audiences want.      

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    Eugene O’Neill and Meredith Monk, in BAM’s New Season

    14. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Among the highlights of the winter-spring season is a production of ‚ÄúLong Day’s Journey Into Night‚Äù starring Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons.      

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    Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration

    13. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s paintings, Step Afrika’s show has resilient vitality but not the propulsive force that drives Lawrence’s storytelling.      

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    When He Needs Advice, a Philadelphia Flyer Turns to His Brother the Dancer

    12. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Taylor Leier is in his first full season in the N.H.L. while his brother, Keaton, is in his first year in the company of the

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    Review: Doom, Doom Everywhere (and Just a Drop of Joy)

    10. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Hofesh Shechter’s ‚ÄúGrand Finale‚Äù is attention-grabbing, but soon becomes an array of mere effects.      

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    Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit

    10. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    A London celebration provided a chance to think about MacMillan’s reputation and legacy 25 years after his death.      

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    Encounters: A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags

    10. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Hamed Sinno, lead singer of the band Mashrou’ Leila, is teaching a class at New York University on the intersection of music and politics.      

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    Dance in NYC This Week

    9. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Our guide to dance performances.      

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    From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and Inspiration

    9. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    A class became a larger learning experience when Ms. Copeland and Carmen de Lavallade talked about breaking down barriers for black dancers.      

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    #SpeakingInDance: Mobilizing the Drumline

    8. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    The Marching Cobras, a Harlem after-school drumline and dance team, look at marching as an act of cultural expression and political resistance.      

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    David Hallberg’s Tell All (About His Own Psyche)

    7. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Mr. Hallberg, the American Ballet Theater principal and paragon of classical style, has a new memoir about life, dancing and returning from an injury.      

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    Review: When La Catrina Met Giselle

    7. November 2017 Kourosh Maheri Top

    The Calpulli company’s ‚ÄúDia de los Muertos‚Äù takes Mexican folklore and folk dance and crosses them with French ballet.      

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    June 2016 edition

    27. May 2016 Kourosh Maheri Top

    We look forward to a summer of dance this month, from The Australian Ballet – with our cover star Leanne Stojmenov – at the London

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    Bolshoi new season

    25. May 2016 Kourosh Maheri Top

    The Bolshoi Ballet’s 2016 to 17 season will include a celebration of Yuri Grigorivich and plans for a new ballet about Rudolf Nureyev. Provisionally titled

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    New Casanova for Northern Ballet

    24. May 2016 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Northern Ballet has announced a new ballet about the 18th century’s most notorious lover, Giacomo Casanova. Kenneth Tindall’s new production will have its premiere in

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    May 2016 issue

    29. April 2016 Kourosh Maheri Top

    There are two strands running through the May issue: the Blackpool Dance Festival and an exploration of horror in dance. We speak to a host

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    An American in Paris in London

    25. April 2016 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Christopher Wheeldon’s production of An American in Paris is coming to London’s West End, with performances at the Dominion Theatre from spring 2017. Inspired by

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