NY Times: Dance

Part of a texting scandal that rocked City Ballet, Mr. Ramasar, performing in his old, ebullient manner, seemed a little clueless.

Over 10 years, American Ballet Theater has become fluent in the style of Mr. Ratmansky, whose new work will be unveiled at the spring gala.

“It’s really slow and there’s a lot of stillness because stillness is basically my one true love,” Ms. Walsh says of this excerpt from “Fame Notions.”

David Parsons’s dances, at their best and worst, remain simple. Not so, the strange, enigmatic “Runes” of Paul Taylor, Mr. Parson’s creative parent.

In Cunningham, the generation of Judson Dance Theater choreographers found a model who opened up new possibilities for dance in time and space.

“discrete figures,” part of Live Ideas 2019, has arresting moments, but feels more like a series of experiments than a visionary whole.

Inspired by Jerome Robbins, who cast him in the stage and film versions of “West Side Story,” he went on to create dances for Ann-Margret and others.

In a new dance Mina Nishimura performs movement from a Merce Cunningham solo and then continues dancing with his spirit: “I’m meeting Merce through my body,” she said.

In the ’80s, a portrait photographer coming into his own captured an enigmatic artist creating his own legend. Rarely exhibited, the images are here, and at Frieze New York.

Othella Dallas’s babysitter was W.C. Handy. Her mentor was Dunham, a foundational figure in modern dance who heavily influenced Alvin Ailey.