The Choreographer Alonzo King: No Fancy Plans, Just Dance
Mr. King’s approach to dance has as much to do with energetic force as with pliés and tendus. His troupe, Lines, appears at SummerStage this week.
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Mr. King’s approach to dance has as much to do with energetic force as with pliés and tendus. His troupe, Lines, appears at SummerStage this week.
By GIA KOURLAS
Ryan Jamaal Swain, Dominique Jackson and Jason A. Rodriguez talk about their experiences as dancers in life — and onscreen in Ryan Murphy’s show about the underground ballroom scene of the 1980s.
By SIOBHAN BURKE
A new documentary follows this New York City Ballet dancer as she directs an evening she put together. It changed her: “I know I could run a company.”
By GIA KOURLAS
Led by an indomitable teacher, ballet students in a poor district didn’t let the closure of their school stop them from dancing — or from delivering a pointed message to government officials.
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
In this choreographic experiment, Will Rawls spells out a phrase from Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s travel ban decision.
By GIA KOURLAS
In this segment, members of the Batsheva, the Young Ensemble break out of the line for fleeting, frantic solos.
By GIA KOURLAS
Lucinda Childs’s 1983 collaboration with John Adams and Frank Gehry is “exceedingly fast” and “seeringly difficult.”
By GIA KOURLAS
Watch the tap dancer Caleb Teicher perform a solo that samples female tappers, including Mable Lee and Ann Miller.
By GIA KOURLAS
The Angel in “Angels in America” is supported by five shadows — at the sound of a whooshing exhale the puppeteers manipulate her wings while the dancers lift her into the air.
By GIA KOURLAS