382 stories by "Gia Kourlas"
In a tremendous performance, this American Ballet Theater principal danced her final "Swan Lake" to end her glittering 29-year career.
After 29 years, the American Ballet Theater principal bids farewell with "Swan Lake." It's demanding. But she's got this.
Christopher Wheeldon's lengthy "The Winter's Tale," a ballet based on the Shakespeare play, is filled with bad behavior but also love and forgiveness.
The Russian ballerina Olga Smirnova lit up the start of the company's six-week summer season. She wasn't alone.
Garcia, a former principal at New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, takes over as Miami City celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Our critics picked 10 performances that have offered a robust alternative to the here and now with a tonic of beauty, rage and wisdom.
Lexee Smith, who works closely with Addison Rae, is an outlier: a commercial dance artist with an experimental bent.
In "The Life of Chuck," the actor known for spontaneous eruptions of joyful movement, lets loose with a feast of footwork.
The Taylor company revives "Churchyard," a forgotten gem from 1969 that shifts from angelic to ferocious as it cycles from life to death.
Copeland, the first Black female principal at American Ballet Theater, has announced she's retiring. She made history, and then made it count.
The spring season of New York City Ballet didn't seem to warrant much excitement " until it did, with a rush of dynamic debuts.
The tap choreographer and dancer returns to the Joyce Theater with "The Remix," a glorious gathering of artists, sound and soul.
It could be that the youngest dancers are the real stars of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at New York City Ballet.
Amy Sherman-Palladino's new series, created with her husband, takes ballet somewhere it doesn't usually go: the world of comedy.
The New York City Ballet principal Andrew Veyette is retiring after 25 years: "My path had a lot of peaks and valleys. Some very deep and some very high."
In "Lunch Dances," which tells fictional stories of regular people pursuing personal research, Monica Bill Barnes and Company invades the New York Public Library.
Gibney Company brings an uneven trio of new works to the Joyce: a deft premiere by Childs and dances by Roy Assaf and Peter Chu.
A member of Merce Cunningham's final company, Toogood brings to the job years of experience as a dancer and educator.
"There's a time for everything," said Farrell, who has returned to New York City Ballet to teach a new and eager generation of dancers.
Roman Mejia, a New York City Ballet principal, shows how bravura and subtlety can exist side by side in a season that includes a sparkling "Apollo" debut.
The choreographer Reggie Wilson premieres his latest, "The Reclamation," a stark, formal dance for seven, at NYU Skirball.
Two of the art form's best join forces in a program curated by Mearns at City Center that features a new work by Roberts, "Dance Is a Mother."
As part of its 50th anniversary, the East Village institution presents reimagined dances by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland, Donna Uchizono and Bebe Miller.
Jenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.
Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary as a dance maker with a program pairing the monumental "Diabelli" (1998) and the new "Slacktide."
