'Buena Vista Social Club,' Gets Another Life as a Musical
The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it's an Off Broadway musical.
The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it's an Off Broadway musical.
The choreographer and director Akram Khan's reimagining of Kipling's fable updates the message but leaves out the fun.
Battle is stepping away after running the company for 12 years, citing health concerns.
He became known for his "layered movement dialogue" and was an uncommonly dedicated teacher who mentored students over decades.
His company's debut program at the Joyce Theater has three New York premieres, including one about the Black roots of rock.
A new work by Larry Keigwin and a company premiere by Ulysses Dove join programs that benefit from live music.
Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by William Christie, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on Thursday.
Jake Roxander's soaring Puck in "The Dream" was the highlight of American Ballet Theater's final two programs this fall, the first season programmed by Susan Jaffe.
A new "Pal Joey" at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.
Sankai Juku, an all-male Butoh company, returns to New York with a program of greatest hits that too often feels tedious.
Liang, a choreographer who has run BalletMet in Ohio for 10 years, is the first Asian American to lead a ballet company of this size and stature.
Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi's "Broken Chord" considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England and North America.
Two dances at Baryshnikov Arts Center are part of Christopher Williams's project of reimagining, and often queering, works by Diaghilev's company.
Olivier Tarpaga's "Once the dust settles, the flowers bloom" is a subtle work of beauty and mystery.
The festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can't it give them better programs?
Wanjiru Kamuyu's solo performance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens isn't a straightforward immigration story.
The production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's "Filling Station" has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its "glimmer of queer liberation."
Balanchine didn't think his ballets would last. But many have become classics, the cornerstone of repertory not just at City Ballet but around the world.
Alexis Blake's "Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve," her first work to be shown in New York, focuses on strength and fragility.
The choreography on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour doesn't ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use her simple moves to her advantage.
Jody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right " and vital to democracy.
Engaging viewers' bodies is central to this Broadway musical, a rare production that sets its audience in motion on the dance floor.
Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers.