Lucy Kudlinski

Lucy Kudlinski is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Brooklyn.

Leïla Ka cycles. She cycles through movements with unforgiving repetition. She cycles through dress upon dress, each article constricting or extending the body. She cycles through shades of womanhood, the dancers transforming before our eyes through abstractions of different life stages. A sense of nobility, or prophecy, sustains Maldonne like a pulsating heart.

Leïla Ka’s Maldonne, 2026. Courtesy New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova.

After the three-year-long process of bringing Times Four into 2025, Cardona dances Gordon’s duet with Molly Lieber in the same SoHo space it was performed fifty years ago, and where Gordon and Setterfield, seminal artists of the postmodern movement, lived and worked for decades.

Molly Lieber and Wally Cardona in Times Four, 2025. Photo: Maria Baranova.

Friday Night Rat Catchers, the newest work from dance theater choreographers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein, is excessive. Excessive in its opulence, excessive in its absurdity, excessive in its hunger. We’re dropped straight into its world—a live feed of a seventies late-night game show, where mania slowly unfolds, dissolves into emptiness, and doubles down again.

Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein in Friday Night Rat Catchers. Photo: Maria Baranova.

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