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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Photo CreditErik Tanner for The New York Times Executive Realness: 3 ‘Pose’ Stars on Dancing and Being Seen
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.
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Photo CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone.
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.”
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In Rough Rio de Janeiro Neighborhood, Ballet as ‘Anesthetic’ and Escape
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.
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In this segment, members of the Batsheva, the Young Ensemble break out of the line for fleeting, frantic solos.
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Lucinda Childs’s 1983 collaboration with John Adams and Frank Gehry is “exceedingly fast” and “seeringly difficult.”
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Watch the tap dancer Caleb Teicher perform a solo that samples female tappers, including Mable Lee and Ann Miller.
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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.
