Jerome Robbins created "Dances at a Gathering" -- recognized as a masterpiece by many -- to work on many different levels. It is pretty and joyous as well as technically impressive, with awe-inspiring moments of acrobatics sparingly sprinkled throughou…
Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Paul Taylor Dance Company David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York March 15, 2016 Mercuric Tidings, Dilly Dilly, Esplanade -- by Jerry Hochman I learned something when I attended Tuesday’…
Trio ConcertDance Alessandra Ferri, Herman Cornejo, Bruce Levingston The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 2, 2016 Dance: Flair, Momentum, Pavane, Senza Tiempo, Entwine, Le Parc pas de deux Piano Solos: Etude No. 2 (Glass), Sonata in A min…
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA March 5, 2016 at 2:00pm Lori Ibay Anticipation has been building for Pennsylvania Ballet’s World Premiere of Angel Corella’s Don Quixote, Corella’s first staging of a full-length ballet as Artistic Director of …
The Mariinsky Ballet Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, New York February 27, 28 2016 Tribute to Maya Plisetskaya Program C: Diana Vishneva in Carmen Suite and Woman in a Room Program D: Uliana Lopatkina and colleagues in a gala evening -- …
New York Theatre Ballet New York Live Arts New York, New York February 27M, 2016 Legends & Visionaries Program: Chemical Bond, Such Longing, Antique Epigraphs, Song Before Spring -- by Jerry Hochman It’s been a very busy ballet week in…
Pacific Northwest Ballet City Center New York, New York February 25, 27, 2016 Square Dance, Prodigal Son, Stravinsky Violin Concerto A Million Kisses to My Skin, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Emergence -- by Jerry Hochman For …
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York February 20M; 28, 2016 Ash, This Bitter Earth, The Infernal Machine, Jeux, Paz De La Jolla Episodes, Agon, The Four Temperaments -- by Jerry Hochman New York C…
Grease: Live The Fox Network January 31, 2016 -- by Jerry Hochman They did it. Having nothing better to do Sunday evening than watch TV – well, I had plenty to do, but nothing that I wanted to do - I decided to catch Grease: Live. I knew th…