Dance
The best dance performances and dance events in NYC
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Ailey Ascending
The venerable company offers premieres by Rennie Harris, Ronald K. Brown, Wayne McGregor and Jessica Lang
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
The marvelous all-male company returns in two programs featuring comedic but impeccably danced twists on the classics
Critics’ picks: Dance
ZviDance: Bear's Ears & Detour
Israeli-American contemporary choreographer Zvi Gotheiner presents two world premieres. Bear's Ears looks at the controversary surrounding the recent downsizing of a Utah national monument of significance to Native Americans; Detour explores indirect ways of reaching goals.
Mark Morris Dance Group: The Hard Nut
With its 1970s setting, comic-book–style art design and cross-dressing lyrical dancers, this is one of the kookiest productions of The Nutcracker
Company XIV: Nutcracker Rouge
Austin McCormick's risqué neo-Baroque dance-theater group present a lavish erotic reimagining of the classic tale
The Bang Group: Nut/Cracked
Choreographer David Parker and his Bang Group reprise their neovaudevillian version of The Nutcracker
The Hip Hop Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky's ballet gets a facelift as rap icon Kurtis Blow MCs a ferocious contemporary reimagining with hip-hop dancers
Sleep No More
A multitude of searing sights crowd the spectator's gaze at this dazzling and uncanny dance-theater installation
