Karen Hildebrand

Karen Hildebrand is former editorial director for Dance Magazine and served as Dance Teacher editor in chief for a decade. She lives in Clinton Hill.

Michael Trusnovec has brought his dancer’s perspective to the curatorial team of the Dance on Camera Festival for six seasons. Dance on Camera Festival 2026 will have a selection of thirty-three films from twelve countries, including a special seventy-fifth anniversary screening of An American in Paris.

Tobin Del Cuore, Through Memory, 2025, USA.

Skatepark is the latest project of Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen, who likes to work with performers not trained as dancers. Some of us are curious about what a choreographer will make of skateboarding culture. Some are here for a vicarious thrill.

Mette Ingvartsen’s Skatepark, Powerhouse: International, Brooklyn, New York, 2025. Photo: Julieta Cervantes.

In Martha@BAM—The 1963 Interview, Move and Tony Award–winning Lisa Kron recreate a little-known live interview that Graham gave to dance critic Walter Terry at the apex of her career. The show will run as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave 2025, October 28–November 1, at BAM Fisher.

Lisa Kron, Katherine Crockett, Catherine Cabeen, and Richard Move in Martha@ The 1963 Interview. Photo: Andrea Mohin, the New York Times.

Dressed in casual street clothes, athletic shoes, and a bandana covering his head, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd casts an imposing physical presence as he strides across the stage and disappears behind the rear wall. We hear him rattling around, and then he slides open the curtain to reveal the stage door exit. We have to strain our necks to keep him in sight when he charges up the stairs into the audience.

Jesse Zaritt and Pamela Pietro, Dance For No Ending. Photo: Steven Pisano.

Imagine you’re in the middle of a mat class with your favorite Pilates teacher. Maybe you’re lying on your side, gritting your teeth through a killer series of clamshell reps, when you notice the person next to you is groaning with a little more drama than necessary. And your instructor, for some reason, has launched into an earnest conversation with another student about what sounds like a dance show she’s creating. No, you’re not dreaming.

Amelia Heintzelman (left) and Leah Fournier (right). Photo: Jenna Westra.

Curated by the artist collective Pioneers Go East, Out-FRONT! Fest. 2025 celebrates LGBTQ+ and feminist voices, a mission the earlier dance pioneers would surely applaud. The weeklong festival, now in its third year, features seven performances plus a film series.

Miranda Brown and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss in!!simon says~~!:));)$$, presented at Judson Church as part of Pioneers Go East Collective’s 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival. Photo: Steven Pisano.

Movement is a mixtape of personal training notes, the moments dance first caught them in its headlights, the roles they learned, the parts they originated, the performances that remain lodged in their visceral muscle memory.

Netta Yerushalmy’s Movement, 2024. Photo: Marina Levitskaya.

A crowd has gathered at Beach 106 Street in Rockaway to view Faye Driscoll’s newest dance work, Oceanic Feeling, commissioned by Beach Sessions Dance Series. The dancers, positioned on the sand between boardwalk and shoreline, strike sculptural, often awkward poses, as if stuck midway between one shape and another.

Faye Driscoll, Oceanic Feeling, a new commission for Beach Sessions 24, Rockaway Beach, NYC, September 2024. Performers featured L-R: Lena Engelstein and Leslie Cuyjet. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy Beach Sessions Dance Series.
Frenetic, absurd, often cartoonish, Twyla Tharp’s new How Long Blues opened the Little Island performance series (that will also feature dance work by Pam Tanowitz and Ebony Williams) with a three-week run in June. With gorgeous production value, athletic dance, live jazz, and a storied outdoor setting, it was the uplifting summer event NYC didn’t know it had been waiting for.
Twyla Tharp's How Long Blues, Little Island, New York, 2024. Photo: Julieta Cervantes.
And Then, Now is an hour and forty-five-minute walking tour of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery led by choreographer Jody Oberfelder, four dancers, and three musicians of the Glass Clouds Ensemble. On a chilly and gray Saturday afternoon, some forty viewers trail behind them to discover performance vignettes such as this one along the route.
Jody Oberfelder Projects' And Then, Now. Photo: Jody Oberfelder.
Monster Mourning is a delightfully unhinged-in-the-best-way evening of movement, music, and storytelling created by Workum and Weena Pauly.
Katie Workum and Weena Pauly in Monster Mourning at Kestrel's, Brooklyn, 2024. Photo: Steve Zavitz.
Shockwave Delay, a two and a half hour “unscripted docudrama” of twenty overlapping chapters performed by a rotating cast of musicians, actors, and dancers, is like one of those kinetic sculptures where a ball travels through a complex course of loops, turns, triggers, and traps that goes on and on until you’re sure, yes, this section is the home stretch. But no, it’s not the end.
Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks, Shockwave Delay, 2023. Pictured: Ryuji Yamaguchi, cube by Ralph Lee. Photo: Theo Cote.
In a new evening length work at BAM Fisher, Masters invites spectators to collaborate.
ChrisMastersDance in Mausoleum. Photo: Robert Flynt.
Interdisciplinary artists all, for WORKSession in Four Walls they showcase their common language of the dancing body, beautifully depicted in four unique ways.
Karen Bernard, Device Not Detected. Photo: © Julie Lemberger.
The seven soloists move in and out of the center spotlight, sometimes performing at the edges, sometimes as a mere shadow in the rear. They lunge with a hip jutted, one arm dangling limply at the side; shrug a shoulder; twist around on their heels, extending arms into a rigid tee, hands drooping at the wrist. Pairs and small groupings emerge accidentally, emphasizing the fleeting connection in our lives during quarantine.
Katie Jacobson and Eliott Marmouset in Horse, the solos, 2023.  Photo: Shaon Chakraborty.

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