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December 23, 2009
Back Talk: Frederick Wiseman
A conversation with the director of La Danse about the discipline of ballet--and documentary filmmaking.
Christine Smallwood
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September 23, 2009
Ratmansky Takes Manhattan
A celebrated Russian choreographer is charting a stylish new course for American Ballet Theatre.
Marina Harss
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October 22, 2008
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November 21, 2007
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June 21, 2007
Company Man
Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein is a case study of the relationship between art and power.
Lynn Garafola
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May 10, 2007
The Brown Decades
In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.
Rachel Cohen
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August 31, 2006
Let’s Dance
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.
Marina Harss
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November 6, 2003
Diaghilev in Perm
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.
Lynn Garafola
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February 13, 2003
One Step Removed
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
Diane Rafferty
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February 6, 2003
Street-Dancing Man
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
Ginger Danto