Dance
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Big Dance Theater creates a culture that destroys itself
Last autumn, the fearless folks at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City let Big Dance Theater into their basement to stage Sybil Kempson's... More >>
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Royal Ballet September 17–29 Britain's premier ballet troupe arrives at the Joyce with an award-winning dance version of Kafka's The... More >>
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Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: The People to Come June 25–29 Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught... More >>
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A multimedia tribute to the polymath Awakenings authorBill T. Jones could not be busier this week. His 30-year-old ensemble, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, just opened "Play and Play," a... More >>
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Stephen Petronio Company April 30–May 5 His inspirational evening-length work, Like Lazarus Did, sets Petronio's fleet, fluid... More >>
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American Ballet Theatre October 16–20 Agnes de Mille's ballet Rodeo makes feminists bare their teeth. Its heroine, who likes to ride with... More >>
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New York City Ballet June 5 through 10 American Ballet Theatre June 21 through 23 What better ballet to see in June—preferably with a... More >>
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Head upriverYvonne Rainer and The Village Voice go way back. 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Judson Dance Theater, the iconoclastic, obstreperous, and... More >>
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It's torture and a guitar at New York Live ArtsA Fender Stratocaster lies next to a bank of stage lights. When someone turns the guitar on, it buzzes. No one fixes the buzzing, and the noise... More >>
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Two Irish choreographers try to conjure the elusiveHow wispy can a performance be and still amount to something? Experimental artists have been asking this question for nearly 50 years, but the... More >>
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It's crowd control at The White Box ProjectAt Descent—the first piece of Noémie Lafrance's to get everyone's attention, in 2002—the audience gathered at the top of the... More >>
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A choreographer dies; the work lives on. Or does it? And if the artist in question has created and maintained a company devoted to the... More >>
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William Forsythe, Martha Clarke, Shantala Shivalingappa, and more.Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company September 16–18, 20–25 Perhaps you’re too young to have seen three memorable duets made... More >>
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The cartoonist's most famous character comes to new life on screenWhen Jules Feiffer was still "a kid, hanging out in the Village," he says, "unemployed and unemployable, without the weekly cartoon in the... More >>
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The Joyce hosts the noted tap star, plus maybe Gregory Hines's shoesSavion Glover’s annual multiple-week encampment at the Joyce can often seem like a battle between two sides of a guy who’s been told... More >>
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The veteran choreographer brings Frame Dances and Adamantine to the Baryshnikov Arts CenterThe year: 1985. The place: Dance Theater Workshop. A man and a woman stand shoulder to shoulder, close to the audience, to perform Susan... More >>
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Trisha Brown's famous 1971 work revives itself in Chelsea. How does it hold up after all these years?When it premiered 40 years ago, Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece was one of those simple yet radical dance ideas that came out of the ’60s.... More >>
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Dean Moss's new work plays odd gamesDean Moss's intriguing but frustrating Nameless forest (at the Kitchen through May 28) begins with a series of choices. The six performers, four... More >>
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Will any of the dancers make a permanent leap? Plus, summer dance picks.After the Ballet Nacional de Cuba finishes its run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 8 to 11, the question won’t only be “When... More >>
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New and old works from a pomo-ballet choreographerLet’s face it. Choreographers are thieves. Like magpies, they see the glint of bright bits and grab them to bedeck their nests—er,... More >>
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Four pieces from the company's junior crewThe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's kid sibling, Ailey II, is more than just a farm team to supply the parent company with fresh blood now... More >>
From the Print Edition
Village Voice Exclusive: An Interview With Banksy, Street Art Cult Hero, International Man of Mystery
"Confidential." That was the beguiling subject of an e-mail seemingly randomly addressed to the Village Voice in mid-September. "I represent the artist Banksy," the message began, "and I would like to talk… More >>
Bike America Is a Trip Full of Verve
There’s something stupid about the ongoing condemnation of Millennials happening now in our culture. You know, the one that asks questions like: "Why are Generation Y yuppies so unhappy?" and… More >>
Home Is Where the Paint Is in Jonas Wood's Vivid Interiors
Jonas Wood's new paintings present seemingly straightforward scenes—rooms devoid of people, a poker tournament on TV—that front for dazzling formal invention. In some pieces Wood focuses on his childhood home, yet… More >>
Sarah Flood in Salem Mass: All Kinds of Gonzo Weirdness
Adriano Shaplin's gonzo epic Sarah Flood in Salem Mass blends Our Town and The Crucible with verve, slang, and hallucinogenic beaver stew. (Yes, the Wooster Group did it first—minus the… More >>
Bronx Bombers Is a Wax Museum Dedicated to Diamond Greats
If the effigies of famous Yankees sluggers at Madame Tussauds aren't lifelike enough for you, cross 42nd Street to watch Eric Simonson's Bronx Bombers, a veritable walking-talking wax museum of… More >>
Big Fish Angles for Safe, Wholesome Family Fun
If Broadway musicals had trailers like movies, the one for Big Fish might go something like this: Meet Edward Bloom! He's a father and a husband with a big heart—and… More >>
The Film Society Can't Quite Make the Leap From Past to Present
What happens to a political play that's three decades old? Can it keep its emotional charge, or does it wither when its social relevance fades? You may be asking these… More >>
Blame It on Magritte
You might assume that the Photoshop fantasias of our age would make the visual conundrums of René Magritte's pre-war paintings feel quaint. Certainly the beguiling originality of his fractured figures… More >>
Deceptive Practices: The Glass Menagerie's Poignant Con Game
The theater is a swindle, an exercise in sham. Every play operates on principles of treachery: Flimsy set pieces substitute for solid spaces; people assume names and accents other than… More >>
Not What Happened: A Meditation on Truth and Historical Accuracy
Provocations don't come much gentler than Ain Gordon's Not What Happened, which concluded a brief run at BAM's Next Wave Festival. A meditation on truth and historical accuracy, directed by… More >>
