You'd think that winning just about every big prize the American grant-making community offers would put to rest any financial anxiety plaguing... More >>
When you attend a dance performance, you sit and watch other people move. They warm up; you settle down. They bask in bright light; you find... More >>
DanceAfrica May 23–26 More than a mere performance, Baba Chuck Davis's annual downtown Brooklyn festival anchors a neighborhood-wide... More >>
Verboten Promising two soundsystems, a visual installation, and a massive secret location in Brooklyn, Verboten's deep house and techno... More >>
Comedian Steven Wright has observed that you can't have everything. "Where would you put it?" Dilemmas like that don't faze choreographer Tere... More >>
Streb: Forces Through December 22 David Van Tiegham provides music and Jim Lewis, who wrote Fela!, words for the high-impact hijinks of... More >>
Big Dance Theater creates a culture that destroys itself
Last autumn, the fearless folks at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City let Big Dance Theater into their basement to stage Sybil Kempson's... More >>
Royal Ballet September 17–29 Britain's premier ballet troupe arrives at the Joyce with an award-winning dance version of Kafka's The... More >>
Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: The People to Come June 25–29 Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught... More >>
Bill T. Jones could not be busier this week. His 30-year-old ensemble, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, just opened "Play and Play," a... More >>
Stephen Petronio Company April 30–May 5 His inspirational evening-length work, Like Lazarus Did, sets Petronio's fleet, fluid... More >>
American Ballet Theatre October 16–20 Agnes de Mille's ballet Rodeo makes feminists bare their teeth. Its heroine, who likes to ride with... More >>
New York City Ballet June 5 through 10 American Ballet Theatre June 21 through 23 What better ballet to see in June—preferably with a... More >>
Yvonne Rainer and The Village Voice go way back. 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater, the iconoclastic, obstreperous, and... More >>
A Fender Stratocaster lies next to a bank of stage lights. When someone turns the guitar on, it buzzes. No one fixes the buzzing, and the noise... More >>
How wispy can a performance be and still amount to something? Experimental artists have been asking this question for nearly 50 years, but the... More >>
At Descent—the first piece of Noémie Lafrance's to get everyone's attention, in 2002—the audience gathered at the top of the... More >>
A choreographer dies; the work lives on. Or does it? And if the artist in question has created and maintained a company devoted to the... More >>
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company September 1618, 2025 Perhaps youre too young to have seen three memorable duets made... More >>
When Jules Feiffer was still "a kid, hanging out in the Village," he says, "unemployed and unemployable, without the weekly cartoon in the... More >>
Savion Glovers annual multiple-week encampment at the Joyce can often seem like a battle between two sides of a guy whos been told... More >>
