By Rachel Silver Maddock On the heels of the widely acclaimed Revisor (2019) and Betroffenheit (2015), Kidd Pivot is back with a new dance-theatre hybrid co-created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young. Assembly Hall premieres at the Vancouver Playhouse October 26 — tickets are already sold out for the four night run — kickstarting their
By Marcie Sillman Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels. She will be missed, but Rausch’s retirement is an inflection
By Sanjoy Roy Like voters, audiences can be simultaneously essential, dissenting, and unfathomable. Take the sold-out mixed program by Nederlands Dans Theater at Sadler’s Wells, featuring one old and two new pieces. Everything looked great and was danced brilliantly (a sound reason for the company’s enduring popularity). What about the works? Audiences, fans, and critics