Selected Journalism
Most recent here
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Jamar Roberts's "Ode" for Alvin Ailey
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Mark Morris's memoir, "Out Loud"
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Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary "Cunningham"
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Rennie Harris's "Lazarus" at Alvin Ailey
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On "Balanchine: The City Center Years"
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Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of "Harlequinade"
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Quotation Mark Tap on Broadway
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The dancing in Beyoncé's Formation tour
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Twyla Tharp's "One Hundreds" and Fiftieth Anniversary Tour
Christopher Wheeldon's "An American in Paris" and "Alice"
Justin Peck's "Year of the Rabbit" and "Paz de La Jolla"
Michael Flatley's "Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games"
Eiko's "A Body in Places"
William Forsythe's "Sider"
Misty Copeland in "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker ," "A Ballerina's Tale"
Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off"
"Topologie" and "Too Shy to Stare"
Pam Tanowitz's "Spectators" and "Broken Story"
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble's "Samhara" and at the Temple of Dendur
Rashaun Mitchell's "Nox"
Michelle Dorrance's "Soundspace," "Blues Project" and "ETM"
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Steve Paxton's "Night Stand" and Dia Retrospective
Colin Dunne's "Out of Time" and Jean Butler's "hurry"
JR and Lil Buck at New York City Ballet
Francois Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline Hominal's "Duchesses"
Heather Kravas and Jeremy Wade
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Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith's "Beautiful Bone"
Robert Garland's "Gloria" for Dance Theatre of Harlem
Israel Galvan's "La Curva"
Vicky Shick's "Everything You See"
Keith Hennessey's "Almost"
Heidi Latsky's "Gimp"
Jason Samuels Smith and Savion Glover's "STepZ"
"20 Dancers for the 20th Century"
Jiri Kylian's "Last Touch First"
Alexei Ratmansky's "The Nutcracker"
Mark Morris's "Gloria" and "A Lake" and "After You"
Tere O'Connor's "Bleed"
Matthew Bourne's "Sleeping Beauty"
Susan Stroman's "Double Feature"
"Dancing Around the Bride" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
And many, many more . . .
New York Times reviews
New York Times features
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Rhiannon Giddens's First Opera
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LaTasha Barnes and the Jazz Continuum
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Snakehips Tucker Overlooked Obituary
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Bob Fosse/Gwen Verdon Breakdown
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Viengsay Valdes and Cuban Ballet
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Motown Choreographer Cholly Atkins
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On Magda Saleh and Egyptian Ballet
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David Byrne Gets into Colorguard
British Ballet Blossoms in Florida
Cuban Modern Dance / Cuban Ballet
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Rennie Harris choreographs for Alvin Ailey
Elsewhere
On Rodgers and Hammerstein and Mary Rodgers in The New York Review of Books
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On John Bubbles in The New York Review of Books
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On Twyla Tharp in The New York Review of Books
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"See the Music" in Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces (Princeton University Press, 2021)
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On Hari Kunzru's White Tears in Threepenny Review
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Tap Essays on Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
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On Michelle Dorrance in Dance
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On The State of Tap Today in Dance
On "Dancing with the Stars" in Slate
On Matthew Bourne in Slate
On Jimmy Slyde in Threepenny Review
On Akram Kahn in Threepenny Review
On Savion Glover in The Village Voice
On Juliette Mapp and Gertrude Stein in The Village Voice
More pieces in the Voice