Critic’s Notebook
Indian Dance: Motion in Stillness, Stillness in Motion
The weeklong Drive East season showed how Indian dance has been extending its range not just in style but also in content.
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The weeklong Drive East season showed how Indian dance has been extending its range not just in style but also in content.
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Brian Rogers, artistic director of the Chocolate Factory, has made a movie featuring familiar figures from the dance and performance world.
By GIA KOURLAS
At the Joyce Theater on Saturday, the Sarasota Ballet presented a program on the 30th anniversary of Ashton’s death, with Mr. Gomes as one of the cast.
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Amar Ramasar, Brittany Pollack and Craig Salstein get a chance to stretch on Broadway. With Justin Peck, they talk about the challenges and rewards.
By GIA KOURLAS
“You kind of let go” to dance Biba Bell’s “Hustle on the Beach,” part of Beach Sessions Dance Series at Rockaway. Watch a portion.
By GIA KOURLAS
The Bharatanatyam dancer Neha Mondal Chakravarty didn’t mind performing on a rainy city sidewalk: “Sometimes it’s about the bliss that you get in just exploring.”
By GIA KOURLAS
Popmaster Fabel improvised this solo for us: “I’m basically freestyle popping — Electric Boogaloo style, and some other techniques that I’ve learned along the way.”
By GIA KOURLAS
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