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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.














