Dance-Enthusiast.com Features

IMPRESSIONS: Carolyn Carlson's "In The Tree (Fragments of Poetics on Fire)" in Paris

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"The Tree is full of feeling, expressed in tight, sharp hand gestures, chainé turns with hair awhirl, and long flamingo-like legs that lift and stretch as they step or hiccup. But the emotions are never overt. Even amidst the women’s anguished flailing torsos or the men’s more combative relations, the air seems unperturbed and there is a sense of gentling. Whether this is an aesthetic expression of Carlson’s Buddhist practice (which spans more than 50 years) or not, it is an intriguing quality." — Ann Moradian, Paris

IMPRESSIONS: New York City's Ballet’s "New Combinations" Program, Premiering Justin Peck’s "The Wind-Up"

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Mostly, what I remember are umpteen lines and angles, overlapping bodies with arms and legs slicing out in all directions. Like the astonishing music, the overall choreographic landscape is ever-changing, and one never knows who’s coming onstage next or what they are going to do. Yet the quicksilver nature of it all, and the sympathy we develop for the dancers’ intrepid efforts to keep pace with the demanding score, prove utterly engaging." — Lisa Jo Sagolla, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Ballerina Turned Techie, Judy Tyrus, Brings Social Networking and Dance Preservation Together with CurtainConnect

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Imagine a free online platform explicitly geared to the dance field that combines the bonding and storytelling pleasure of Instagram and Facebook with Ancestry.com's ability to illustrate large family trees and uncover relations. CurtainConnect is even more sophisticated and specific." — Christine Jowers, interviewing the ChromaDiverse team in San Francisco and Ohio

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Lar Lubovitch's “Othello: A Dance in Three Acts,” Restaged for American Ballet Theatre

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"I create in a way to see the music. I think of it as painting the music, rather than dancing the music […] and using the dancers through time and space as a way of sort of painting flowing images [...] I aim to build movement that is inevitable. I think that that's a hallmark of the best choreography: that whatever follows is the thing that should follow and feels right. Each step is, you might say, the mother of the next step." — Lar Lubovitch, Choreographer, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 3): Etay Axelroad, Akane Little, Alex Rodabaugh and Tiran Willemse in Solo Works

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Start with Winter in Brief, parts 1 and 2 for highlights from Live Artery, Under the Radar, The Exponential Festival, and the Out-FRONT! Festival. I reflect on the rich variety of works I’ve experienced, with programming that has run the gamut in terms of scale and thematic scope." — Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York City

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Don’t Miss the 54th Dance on Camera Festival from February 6-9 at Symphony Space

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"DOCF 2026 presents 33 films from 12 countries on February 6 - 9 in Symphony Space's The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater on the Upper West Side. Tobin Del Cuore's Through Memory and Jennifer Lin's About Face bookend an eclectic slate of selections." — Festival Co-Curator Michael Trusnovec

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Maxine Montilus on Radical Self-Love and "Our Bodies, No Apologies"

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"I hope that [this project] generates space for people to reflect on their body image and self valuation...I find that it's especially hard to have these conversations given the pop culture influences right now, specifically the rise of the use of Ozempic [...] It's interesting because this is coming after the body positivity moment we had a number of years ago, with people like Lizzo at the forefront. Now I feel like we’re back to the 90s and 2000s, where body dysmorphia was huge and everyone was aiming for a thinner mold." — Maxine Montilus on her Our Bodies, No Apologies

IMPRESSIONS: Choreographic Portrait: Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington with MasterZ at Work Dance Family and Parsons Dance

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"The evening begins in the Peter B. Lewis Theater with a showcase of Washington’s works Fearless, performed by Parsons Dance, and The 24/7 Diner, danced by her company, MasterZ at Work Dance Family. For the fourth year of the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival at the Guggenheim, Washington joins Works & Process Executive Director Duke Dang for an evening of dance and discussion followed by a celebratory Rotunda Dance Party." — Miranda Stuck, New York City

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Not Retiring Anytime Soon, Lucinda Childs on her Partnership with Gibney Dance

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Gina and I get along really well. She just understands what I need and what I don't need. I'm totally open to all those kinds of things if they happen at the right time." — Lucinda Childs, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Brokentalkers' "Bellow" at the Irish Arts Center and Kinoshita Kabuki's "Kanjincho" at Japan Society

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Appearing in Under the Radar, Brokentalkers’ Bellow at the Irish Arts Center and Company Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho at Japan Society approach inherited traditions from different cultural lineages, yet both ask how the past is carried into the present through bodies, objects, and ritual." — Catherine Tharin, New York City

IMPRESSIONS: Ishmael Houston-Jones’ "OO-GA-La Reimagined" and Heidi Latsky Dance's "Who Am I Now?"

The Dance Enthusiast — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Ishmael Houston-Jones and Heidi Latsky have both devoted their careers to bodies that the dance field has not always known how to see without inherited assumptions: Black and brown bodies, aging bodies, bodies marked by illness or disability. Both reject virtuosity as the primary measure of value, and both place lived experience at the center of choreography. Yet the presented works approach this shared ethos in strikingly different ways." — Catherine Tharin, New York City

IMPRESSIONS: Works & Process Rotunda Project Co-Presents “The Hikers” at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"I can’t help but notice how the spiraling architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for the Guggenheim’s rotunda accentuates the world Knight and Williams exist in. The museum’s whirling climb captures the memory of the mountain that they each travelled through to meet. The extraordinary dancers wield expressive modes of storytelling through their torsos, pelvises, and spines, bringing hallmarks of their seasoned careers with Graham to Schreier’s majestic choreography." — Kristen Hedberg, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 2): More from Live Artery, Under the Radar, and The Exponential Festival

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Festival season continued through January with more offerings from Live Artery, The Exponential Festival, and Under the Radar [...] Can you believe there’s more?! Stay tuned for Winter in Brief (Part 3) as we wrap up festival season and embark, fortified and defiant, on the rest of what looks to be another full and exciting year of performance." — Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Kathryn Bradney on the Prestigious Prix de Lausanne's Evolution and "Le Prix" Documentary

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

“The Prix isn’t just a competition; it is a place to grow and develop as an artist. The field is evolving, and we want to strengthen it. We want to create as many opportunities as possible for this next generation of talent.” — Kathryn Bradney, Artistic and Executive Director of the Prix de Lausanne

IMPRESSIONS: Under the Radar Festival Presents Kevin Matthew Wong's "Benevolence" at Lincoln Center

The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Kevin Matthew Wong presents a compelling one-person show that blends inventive props, video interviews, singing, acting, and movement. Wong's deft performance skillfully incorporates these elements as he brings us along on the journey to discover his Chinese-Canadian heritage." — Sabrina Petrelli, New York

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Catherine Gallant on "GIFT: A Life In Dance"

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"I'm interested in the responsibility of questioning Duncan's work. I don't think the dances will be lost. Many people have felt the responsibility and passed them on in their own way. I want to crack that open and make sure that [the Duncan work] is shared very widely, with people from other areas and disciplines within dance or otherwise. I feel my responsibility is to keep the work relevant and valuable to students of dance." — Catherine Gallant, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Ogemdi Ude’s "MAJOR" at New York Live Arts

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Ogemdi Ude’s MAJOR at New York Live Arts: Majorette dance is an ensemble form birthed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities’s in the 1960s when marching-band majorettes put down their batons to perform full-out precision dance routines combining Black-rooted vernacular and theatrical dance styles. The provoking 55-minute piece unpacks Ude’s corporeal, self-identity journey from a young majorette dancer to a grown-up choreographic artist committed to uplifting her “community” of Black femmes, which includes all LGBTQ+ folks who present in a feminine fashion. - Lisa Jo Sagolla, New York City

IMPRESSIONS: 2nd Best Dance Company Reimagines Sleeping Beauty in “Slumber” at Triskelion Arts

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"2nd Best Dance Company’s Slumber, presented at Triskelion Arts, in December, reimagines Sleeping Beauty through a blend of fairy tale and contemporary theatrical strategies. Written, directed, and choreographed by company founder Hannah Garner, the piece is performed by a cast of five deft dancer-actors." — Catherine Tharin, Brooklyn, NY

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 1): Out-FRONT!, Exponential, Under the Radar, and New York Live Arts Live Artery Festivals

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Whew, I’m exhausted in the best way. Ready for more? I am! Stay tuned for Winter in Brief, Part 2, featuring even more from the January festival season. Happy dancegoing, everyone!" — Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Gina Gibney, Recipient of the Bessies Service to the Field Award (2025)

The Dance Enthusiast — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"Everything that we are as an organization now – we have this repertory company with nine really amazing dancers that does work by choreographers that I've admired my whole career, we have two facilities, and we have a very robust community action program that works in domestic violence shelters and with youth with healthy relationship training. All these things are big, and they grew in the scale that I never anticipated." — Gina Gibney, Founder, Artistic Director and CEO of Gibney Dance

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Recipient of The Bessies Lifetime Achievement Award (2024), Reflects on Her Storied Career

The Dance Enthusiast — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"I think that, in a way, I have been charged with always bringing the Black perspective to the front of my work. My mother was heavily involved in social activism, Black identity [...] And then women. Women's power is so often either negated or ignored or taken for granted. I believe that women are the carriers of humanity, civilization and culture itself." — Dyane Harvey, Salaam, recipient of the Bessies 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award

IMPRESSIONS: Paris Opera Ballet in "Notre Dame de Paris" at The Opéra Bastille

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"The ballet has a two-dimensional, Pop Art-feel to it, with a Minimalist touch." — Ann Moradian, Paris

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Pioneers Go East Collective’s Fourth Out-FRONT! Festival

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

"...with social media, there's so much visibility for our communities, but it’s in very small, 30 second clips on YouTube. And so the visibility is very accessible, but in a way that is commercialized and commodified [...] live performance is a way to connect to the performers on stage and their voices that cannot be done in any other way. And so it brings back the humanity of our artists." — Remi Harris, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Das Besties and Billy McEntee Present "Das Raushgift" at Box of Moonlight, Bushwick

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

"Das Rauschgift, the latest collaboration from Brooklyn-based dance-theatre duo Travis Amiel and Cosimo Pori (aka Das Besties) is a playful, exuberant, and ultimately tender tale about the trials and tribulations of having a good time." — Kate Purdum, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Triskelion Arts' Split Bill #47 Presents Ariana Speight and Cristina Moya-Palacios

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

"At the intimate Triskelion Arts, Split Bill #47 presented two solos, works by Cristina Moya-Palacios and Ariana Speight, which spoke of identity, reflection, and memory." — Kristen Hedberg, Brooklyn

Dance-Enthusiast.com Features

IMPRESSIONS: Carolyn Carlson's "In The Tree (Fragments of Poetics on Fire)" in Paris

IMPRESSIONS: New York City's Ballet’s "New Combinations" Program, Premiering Justin Peck’s "The Wind-Up"

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Ballerina Turned Techie, Judy Tyrus, Brings Social Networking and Dance Preservation Together with CurtainConnect

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Lar Lubovitch's “Othello: A Dance in Three Acts,” Restaged for American Ballet Theatre

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 3): Etay Axelroad, Akane Little, Alex Rodabaugh and Tiran Willemse in Solo Works

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Don’t Miss the 54th Dance on Camera Festival from February 6-9 at Symphony Space

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Maxine Montilus on Radical Self-Love and "Our Bodies, No Apologies"

IMPRESSIONS: Choreographic Portrait: Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington with MasterZ at Work Dance Family and Parsons Dance

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Not Retiring Anytime Soon, Lucinda Childs on her Partnership with Gibney Dance

IMPRESSIONS: Brokentalkers' "Bellow" at the Irish Arts Center and Kinoshita Kabuki's "Kanjincho" at Japan Society

IMPRESSIONS: Ishmael Houston-Jones’ "OO-GA-La Reimagined" and Heidi Latsky Dance's "Who Am I Now?"

IMPRESSIONS: Works & Process Rotunda Project Co-Presents “The Hikers” at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 2): More from Live Artery, Under the Radar, and The Exponential Festival

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Kathryn Bradney on the Prestigious Prix de Lausanne's Evolution and "Le Prix" Documentary

IMPRESSIONS: Under the Radar Festival Presents Kevin Matthew Wong's "Benevolence" at Lincoln Center

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Catherine Gallant on "GIFT: A Life In Dance"

IMPRESSIONS: Ogemdi Ude’s "MAJOR" at New York Live Arts

IMPRESSIONS: 2nd Best Dance Company Reimagines Sleeping Beauty in “Slumber” at Triskelion Arts

IMPRESSIONS: Winter in Brief (Part 1): Out-FRONT!, Exponential, Under the Radar, and New York Live Arts Live Artery Festivals

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Gina Gibney, Recipient of the Bessies Service to the Field Award (2025)

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Recipient of The Bessies Lifetime Achievement Award (2024), Reflects on Her Storied Career

IMPRESSIONS: Paris Opera Ballet in "Notre Dame de Paris" at The Opéra Bastille

THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Pioneers Go East Collective’s Fourth Out-FRONT! Festival

IMPRESSIONS: Das Besties and Billy McEntee Present "Das Raushgift" ​at Box of Moonlight, Bushwick

IMPRESSIONS: Triskelion Arts' Split Bill #47 Presents Ariana Speight and Cristina Moya-Palacios

IMPRESSIONS: Das Besties and Billy McEntee Present "Das Raushgift" at Box of Moonlight, Bushwick