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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

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Big Names and Ballet Slippers: Inside YAGP’s 25th Anniversary Gala

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a sold-out gala performance and black-tie dinner at Lincoln Center’s...

23.04.2024 9

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Martha Graham Dance Company Explores the American Experience, Past and Present

Martha Graham Dance Company is turning 100! Soon. In two years, to be exact. But it’s never too early to start the party, and the Company will...

16.04.2024 3

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Lorin Latarro Is Making Big Moves on Broadway

Lorin Latarro is having a moment right now. It’s not her first time in the spotlight—she’s performed in fourteen Broadway shows and been part of...

11.04.2024 8

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‘Illinoise,’ a Newish Kind of Musical, Is Headed to Broadway

Broadway is set to welcome Illinoise, the show inspired by Grammy and Academy Award nominee Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed concept album Illinois from...

20.03.2024 4

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

92Y Celebrates 150 Years With Spectacular Performances and a New Exhibition

Earlier this week, 92NY (formally the 92nd Street Y, New York) celebrated its 150th year with a lively evening honoring the center’s deep ties to...

15.03.2024 7

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Holding and Letting Go: A Review of Jean Butler’s New Ode to Irish Dance

The critically acclaimed 'What We Hold' was re-designed and re-staged for New York’s stunning Irish Arts Center.

27.02.2024 3

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Alonzo King, Jason Moran and Lisa Fischer On Deep River’s Lincoln Center Debut

“Every beginning starts with an idea,” Alonzo King told me when we talked through our screens from across the country. “It’s like Athena...

23.02.2024 8

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Dance on Camera 2024: A Festival of Love, Water and Kinesthetic Empathy Starts Today

Dance and film lovers, rejoice! The 52nd Annual Dance on Camera Festival is coming to Lincoln Center, starting today (February 9) and running through...

09.02.2024 6

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Tiler Peck Opens Up About Her Choreographic Debut at NYCB

Last week, after Justin Peck’s Rotunda (2020) and before Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa (2017), Tiler Peck premiered her first choreographic work for...

07.02.2024 7

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

The Performance Festival Centering LGBTQ and Feminist Voices

As I recently wrote in my article about The Joyce Theater’s eighth American Dance Platform, there’s a lot going on here in New York with the...

10.01.2024 4

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Melanie George Presents Jazz at The Joyce and More

The Joyce Theater’s eighth American Dance Platform runs from tomorrow through January 14. If you’re thinking, ‘Wow, there’s a lot going on...

08.01.2024 6

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Premieres Two New Works at City Center

On December 16, the audience around me was happily bustling about—waving, hugging—before the evening show, fully aware of what they were in for: a...

21.12.2023 5

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Dante Puleio and Hilla Ben Ari On Highlighting Women’s Voices

José Limón (1908-1972) is known for being a pioneer of American Modern Dance as well as one of the greatest male dancers of the twentieth century....

05.12.2023 10

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Sokolow’s Beautiful Realism Is Reborn in ST/DE’s ‘In the Eye of a Dream’

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once said, “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” Belgian artist Rene Magritte said, “If the...

17.11.2023 5

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s 29th Season Melds Poetry and Dreams

Complexions was founded in 1994 by Co-Artistic-Directors Dwight Rhoden (former principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) and Desmond...

14.11.2023 3

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Choreographer Lauren Lovette’s Latest Asks ‘What’s Going on With the Men?’

In the beginning, the men listen. The orchestra pit starts to glow, and the musicians rise up, singing out into the darkness, calling forth the dance....

03.11.2023 6

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Between Mountain and Sea: Butoh Comes to the Joyce

Japan’s foremost contemporary Butoh dance company, Sankai Juku, is making a rare U.S. tour and stopping at The Joyce Theater through November 5....

01.11.2023 5

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Fall Season Brings Together Classical and Contemporary

There is so much to look forward to in American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Fall Season. Three programs, thoughtfully curated by the Company’s new...

19.10.2023 3

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

In Concert Street Dance, Everything Old Is New Again

“I feel that Hip-Hop culture—dance, to be specific—is the most important and dynamic American artistic creation in the past 100 years,”...

16.10.2023 2

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Experiencing James Allister Sprang’s ‘Rest Within the Wake’

The Howard Gilman Performance Space at Baryshnikov Arts Center was hushed despite a full audience waiting for the world premiere of multidisciplinary...

28.09.2023 2

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

New York City Ballet Poised to Kick Off Its 75th Anniversary Season

There is much to look forward to in New York City Ballet’s 2023-24 Season—The Nutcracker! Justin Peck! A Midsummer Night’s Dream!—but let’s...

14.09.2023 1

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Caedra Scott-Flaherty

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