Dance
INSITU: dance in its first position
By Jen GeorgeFounder/artistic director Svea Schneider and her team have positioned an ambitious sprawl of 144 free performances of work by 22 choreographers across four Long Island City public parks, including opportunities for audience participation in site-specific workshops.
In Conversation
Misfiring synapses: a conversation with Gabri Christa about her stage comeback with Magdalena
By Ivan TalijancicThis fall Christa is reconnecting to her rootsboth artistic and familialmaking her comeback as a stage performer in a cross-media solo, named after her elderly mother, Magdalena.
Mark Morris’s Ascension in a Shrinking Summer Dancescape at Lincoln Center
By Susan YungWith this summer’s dearth of other large venue dance at Lincoln Center, and Morris’s consistency with Mozart festival appearances, suddenly the “enfant terrible” has assumed the role of grand poobah of summer dance at the cultural center.
Four Continents and Five Boroughs on the Harbor
By Gillian JakabThe annual outdoor Battery Dance Festival is like a show-and-tell of the company’s tireless international activity, the Dancing to Connect program. Battery Dance’s new and old friends from these ten countries on four continents were made the old-fashioned wayby asking them to dance.