Critic’s Notebook
The Next Wave of Dance Films, Made on Your Phone, Is Here
After a festival our critic wonders: Does the mobile dance film advance the art of choreography or of dance on film?
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After a festival our critic wonders: Does the mobile dance film advance the art of choreography or of dance on film?
By BRIAN SEIBERT
Some performance spaces in New York are reminding viewers that the work they see is being performed on Indigenous land.
By SIOBHAN BURKE
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 chain of duets by Janis Claxton Dance, part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, has an engaging naturalness but a sameness problem.
By BRIAN SEIBERT
Watch Crystal Serrano and Da’Von Doane in a portion of Mr. Garland’s “New Bach,” created for Dance Theater of Harlem in 2001.
By GIA KOURLAS
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