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The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Applications for the 2026 program are open September 2 - October 15, 2025

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The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Sara Nash (she/her) has been a leading force in the dance ecosystem, consistently supporting and advocating for the field through her work in both the private and public philanthropic sectors, most recently as the Dance Director for the National Endowment for the Arts

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The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Opus 3 Artists is a leading company managing the careers and touring activities of many of the world’s greatest performing artists and ensembles

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The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Conceived and curated by Tony Award-winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder, this robust new cross-disciplinary, multi-week festival features the American premieres of numerous major works and energizes New York’s resurgence as a site of daring international performance and experimentation.

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The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"The late choreographer Paul Taylor had genius to spare, and left his Paul Taylor Dance Company with more masterpieces than it can keep in active repertory. In recent years, the troupe’s artistic director, Michael Novak, has made a point of resuscitating dances long out of view. Presenting these revivals as part of the Taylor company’s summer seasons at The Joyce Theater is a clever move, as the old-new dances are guaranteed hits — more of a draw now than its overhyped premieres." — Robert Johnson, New York

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The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"Pam Tanowitz’s latest dance, the idyllic Pastoral (set to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, the Pastoral Symphony), a 60-minute work for seven dancers, portrays a bucolic day in the country. Framed by an ever-evolving set design and a multidimensional soundscape, Tanowitz masterfully builds the abstract dance into something idiosyncratic, fascinating, and unmistakably her own. It is little wonder that she is considered a major American choreographer." — Catherine Tharin, New York

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The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"This force of elemental nature is none other than Eiko Otake, the 73-year-old interdisciplinary artist and dancer. The evening length work, SOAK, created with collaborator DonChristian Jones, a 35-year-old multimedia artist, musician, and director, functions as a meditation on memory and explores water as a site of "shared origin"." — Hannah Lipman, New York

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The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"For [Pina Bausch], her brain was in the stomach somehow, nothing intellectual. She had to respond to what she was looking for, and it had to touch her. She always considered herself an audience member. The performance had to come through her and to touch her, either in a funny way or an emotional way." — Dominque Mercy

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The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"New York City Ballet’s recent spring season successfully introduced some young dancers in major roles. In an earlier review I mentioned David Gabriel’s ability to take an audience on a journey and turn a familiar piece into an exciting adventure. Watching two casts in the company’s Ravel program let me experience the dances in completely different ways." — Henning Rübsam, New York

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The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"Lesser celebrates her anniversary with a bare-bones ode to persistence, as though spent by her decades of experimenting with contemporary issues, creating elaborate multimedia worlds, and commissioning composers. Five young dancers appear live on stage, performing solos, trios, and group pieces in short multimedia dances, as well as in video interviews filmed often vertically on iPhones." — Deirdre Towers, New York

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The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

"Susan Jaffe, who was appointed to head the company in December of 2022, was a most formidable swan queen herself. No wonder she has this staple of the classical ballet canon in her focus, and bookends the troupe’s summer season with two weeks of the feathered tale." — Henning Rübsam, New York

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