HeyJaredClaudia Bauer / Speaking of Dance
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Juel D. Lane (opens the original)
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Premieres are at the heart of New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival—by my count, this year’s festival, running September 22–October 3, includes four New York premieres, four U.S. premieres, and three world-premiere commissions. But there are also debuts for artists, companies, and choreographers, whose first appearance on the New York City Center stage is a peak career moment. Among them is the Atlanta-based choreographer Juel D. Lane, who makes his artistic debut when Philadanco! The P
Stanford Makishi (opens the original)
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Fall for Dance isn’t the official kickoff of the New York City dance season, but the genre-spanning festival, presented in late September by New York City Center, anoints each season with a sense of celebration, community, and good vibes. Created in 2004 to draw new audiences to dance, the festival offers five eclectic triple bills over 10 performances, at an accessible price—the first year, tickets were just $10, and they’re still only $30. The festival usually sells out, the audience is always
Ormsby Wilkins (opens the original)
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This summer was a season of change at American Ballet Theatre, starting with Cory Stearns’s retirement and continuing with the promotions of Jake Roxander, SunMi Park, and Jarod Curley to principal dancer and soloist promotions for Zimmi Coker, Michael de la Nuez, Tyler Maloney, Joseph Markey, Andrew Robare, and Yoon Jung Seo. The closing weekend of the season brought the most transformational change of all—the final performance conducted by Music Director Ormsby Wilkins, who retired after 21 ye
Christopher Charles McDaniel (opens the original)
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Christopher Charles McDaniel has a rather long to-do list these days. In June he was announced as the new artistic director of Dances Patrelle, succeeding the company’s late founder, Francis Patrelle. In May, McDaniel and Steven Melendez, a retired international principal dancer and the former artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet, announced their community-engagement arts consultancy, Troublemaker: Public Works, and its pilot program, Inspiration Point
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