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    A slide from the collection of Patricia Wilde, a New York City Ballet dancer whose collection will be housed in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The 1954 image, taken by Wilde, shows George Balanchine, center, and others.
    CreditPatricia Wilde; Photography by Eamon Queeney for The New York Times

    Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind

    In an art form that leaves few tangible traces, performers often become collectors of mementos from their careers. A lucky few find an archival home for their treasures.

     By Meryl Cates

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    CreditMohamed Sadek for The New York Times

    Watch Martha Graham’s Dance of Empowerment

    In 1936, Graham choreographed this scorching response to the rise of fascism.

     By Gia Kourlas

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    CreditShawn Brackbill for The New York Times

    Where Subway Dancers Practice Their Art

    “You are the center of your own world. Any space is important,” the Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula told members of It’s Showtime NYC.

     By Gia Kourlas

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    CreditAdam Golfer for The New York Times

    How the Rockettes Fall Like Dominoes

    Dancers fall. Sometimes, it’s intentional.

     By Gia Kourlas

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    Lauren Lovette
    CreditMohamed Sadek for The New York Times

    When a Ballerina Gets to Be Goofy

    “Ballerinas never crash,” said Lauren Lovette, but, “I love falling to the floor.”

     By Gia Kourlas

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    CreditRudolf Costin for The New York Times

    Rugged, Physical Work With Durability

    In Abby Zbikowski’s “Radioactive Practice,” a dancer says, “You’re seeing survival and community in real time.”

     By Gia Kourlas

  1. Critic’s Pick

    Review: Absences, S-Curves and Wonderful Asymmetries

    Two South Asian dance troupes, Nrityagram and Chitrasena, exemplars of different styles, team up for a program at the Joyce Theater.

    By Brian Seibert

     
  2. Critics’ Notebook

    For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change

    Is theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.

    By Jesse Green, Elisabeth Vincentelli and Brian Seibert

     
  3. The World Through a Lens

    Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage

    The annual spectacle, featuring fanciful caravans and riders on horseback, is arguably the most potent visual representation of Andalusian culture.

    By Kevin Faingnaert and Anna Hart

     
  4. Critic’s Notebook

    Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque

    As in ballet, the coronation provided spectacle and beauty tempered by discipline and focus.

    By Roslyn Sulcas

     
  5. Critic’s Pick

    Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce

    In “Yes and Yes,” at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to “Ulysses,” true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.

    By Siobhan Burke

     

  6. Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World

    The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of “I as another,” a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

    By Gia Kourlas

     
  7. Critic’s Notebook

    Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now

    In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed “ultramodern poet.”

    By Anastasia Tsioulcas

     
  8. Two by Design

    The Painter Who Inspired a New Ballet

    For Christopher Wheeldon’s return to New York City Ballet, he asked the artist Kylie Manning not just for backdrops and costumes but to, as he says, “form a dance within her world.”

    By Ella Riley-Adams

     
  9. Critic’s Pick

    Review: At Trisha Brown, a New Voice With a Family Resemblance

    A premiere by Judith Sánchez Ruíz goes its own way but, like Brown’s work, shows an active, questioning mind and a sensual physicality.

    By Brian Seibert

     

  10. Chris Wheeldon’s ‘Dangerous and Exciting’ Adventure at City Ballet

    Wheeldon is back at New York City Ballet, where he honed his choreographic skills, making a non-narrative work set to Schoenberg.

    By Roslyn Sulcas