Dance

As soon as DD Dorvillier walked onto the stage of the Chocolate Factory Theater on Thursday night, you knew you were in the presence of somebody long immersed in her craft, capable of doing a lot with a little. Through the simple act of standing still and surveying the audience, …

A man is falling from the sky. Even as he plummets, you can tell he’s a dancer: There is grace in the twisting of his wind-buffeted limbs. He lands not with a thud but a whisper, on the tips of his toes. That’s how the hip-hop fantasy “Once Again (for …

It was Isaac Hernández’s second week at American Ballet Theater, and he was feeling achy from rehearsals. But as soon as the pianist began to play, his body and eyes snapped to attention. It was his big entrance. He rushed across the studio in series of jumps, legs thwacking together …

When Arnold Schoenberg conducted the premiere of “Pelleas und Melisande,” his symphonic poem based on the somber fairy-tale that inspired Debussy’s opera, in 1905, it was in front of a hostile Viennese audience. Reviews were “unusually violent,” the composer would later recall, with one critic suggesting he be committed to …

The prospect of female choreographers sharing a New York City Ballet program has always been just that — a prospect divorced from reality. But on Wednesday night, dances by Gianna Reisen, Caili Quan and Tiler Peck made up the company’s first all-female repertory program. It was also the fashion gala, …