Nation Topics - Dance | The Nation

Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy renders the composer’s world and life in the Soviet Union through dance at American Ballet Theatre.

Paul Taylor Dance Company has sustained a signature style, and without having left modern dance behind.

Can the work of Merce Cunningham survive his death and the closing of his dance company?

A conversation with the director of La Danse about the discipline of ballet--and documentary filmmaking.

A celebrated Russian choreographer is charting a stylish new course for American Ballet Theatre.

The genius of Jerome Robbins.

Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative
center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long
off-limits to foreigners.

Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory
of the world's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the
mid-1950s are filled with spine-tingling memories of

In classical dance, the art of imbalance--the pirouette, the jeté
or the mere ethereal, alighted walk that alone makes audiences feel they
are getting their money's worth--is the purview

It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the
world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.