#eclectic-dance

Here NOW So Long, a New York premiere, presented by White Wave Dance as part of New York LiveArts’ New Works. Here NOW So Long is a multi-media performance with amazing projections (visuals by filmmaker Hao Bai), but that is not all that’s fabulous about this work. Scene upon scene in this program was outstanding and beautiful; the dancing (choreographed & directed by Young Soon Kim) was…

Dorchel Haqq, photo by Amy Gardner. Ariel Lembeck, photo by Greg Scaffidi. Cristina Moya-Palacios, photo courtesy of the artist. Dahlia Qumhiyeh, photo by Enigma Crush. Sacha Vega, photo by James Gentile New York LiveArts  celebrated early career movement-based artists in its 61st year of  Fresh Tracks with five distinct artists. New Works by 5 early stage creators First up again and…

In Brooklyn: An Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Craig Bacon, Tempest Tossed, at Casa Duse for 8  Shows Only: June 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 2026Tickets on sale now. In Adams, MA The Adams Theater presentsMA250 FestivalPeople, Poetry, PerspectiveJune 12–21, 2026 Tickets 🎟️ Downtown, Manhattan For the 50th anniversary year of Picasso’s death, Picasso: Le Monstre Sacré, a…

A dance festival at 92NY As part of the Women Move the World season, this year’s festival was open exclusively to women and female-identifying artists, creating space for bold new voices to take center stage.92NY At first blush, Andrea Miller’s Blush, which premiered in 2009 and is part of the Women Move The World Festival, is a bit grim and quite dark. What it lacks in uplift, at least…

New York Live Arts presented its 60th year of the legendary Fresh Tracks program on Jun 13-14. The programming presented four completely original works, many boldly mixing media, movement, song and language. Ayo ohs to:dance is self-consciously, intentionally uncomfortable. The self-abasement of part one added poignancy but fun and then gave us the come back with a confident second-act…

Emily Smyth Vartanian, Artistic Director of General Mischief, and Karen Gayle, Choreographer. deliver a dance program that is fun and neatly disorderly. It was my privilege and pleasure to meet General Mischief Dance Theatre for the first time last night. My loss is not having caught their «act« sooner. This is their 15th Anniversary Season! You, too, may need to make up for lost opportunity.…