Fall for Dance is an annual dance festival presented by New York City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

 in New York City. Established in 2004 as a means to introduce new audiences to dance, and loosely based on the Delacorte

Delacorte Theater

The Delacorte Theater, established in 1962, is an open-air theater located in Manhattan's Central Park and has a seating capacity of 1,800. The Delacorte is owned by the City of New York and operated by The Public Theater. It is an open-air amphitheater, with the Turtle Pond and Belvedere Castle...

 Dance Festival model of the 1960s and 1970s, Fall For Dance showcases as many as five different dance companies on each of the festival's six nights. In response to the Festival's popularity, in 2006 the number of performances was expanded to ten, with four of the six programs being repeated; in 2009 the number of performances remained ten, with five programs, each repeating.

2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/dance/01grah.htmlNY Times by Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson (dance critic)

Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...

, October 1]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/arts/dance/04fall.htmlNY Times by Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...

, October 4]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/arts/dance/05fest.htmlNY Times by Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson (dance critic)

Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...

, October 5]http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-09-28/dance/falling-in-love-again/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

, September 28]^th

• Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem
  Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...
  
  : Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
   (choreographer: George Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  )
• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
  Bill T. Jones
  Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.-Early life:Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida and his family moved North as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School...
  
  : Continuous Replay (chorographer: Arnie Zane
  Arnie Zane
  Arnie Zane was an American photographer, choreographer, and dancer. He is best known as the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.-Early years:...
  
  )
• STREB: Ricochet, Wild Blue Wonder
• David Neumann: Dose
• Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  Merce Cunningham
  Mercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...
  
  : How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run
• Martha Graham Dance Company
  Martha Graham
  Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
  
  : Embattled Garden
• Susan Marshall
  Susan Marshall
  Susan Marshall is an American choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company which she formed sometime between 1982 and 1983, working initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and David Landis...
  
   & Company: Kiss
• PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER: Ordinary Festivals
• Rubberbandance Group: Elastic Perspective (excerpts)
• Noche Flamenca: Siguiriya
• Trisha Brown Dance Company
  Trisha Brown
  Trisha Brown is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For several summers she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance...
  
  : Groove and Countermove
• Peter Boal
  Peter Boal
  Peter Boal is artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and director of its affiliated school in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Bedford, New York, in 1965 and began studies at the School of American Ballet at age nine.Mr...
  
  : Episodes
  Episodes (ballet)
  Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op. 21; Five Pieces, Op. 10; Concerto, Op. 24; and the Ricercata in Six Voices from Bach's Musical Offering which Webern had arranged in homage to Bach as Balanchine conceived the ballet as...
  
  
• Ballet Hispanico
  Ballet Hispanico
  Ballet Hispanico is an American dance company based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded by the Venezuelan American dancer and choreographer Tina Ramirez in 1970 and presents dances reflecting the experience of Hispanic and Latino Americans...
  
   http://www.ballethispanico.org: Dejame Soñar
• Parul Shah & Dancers: Precious Cracked Earth
• Rennie Harris Puremovement: Students of the Asphalt Jungle
• Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  ; Plan to B (choreographer: Jorma Elo
  Jorma Elo
  Jorma Elo is a contemporary choreographer. Elo began studying dance at a young age through classical training at the Finnish National Ballet School and the Kirov Ballet School. He danced with the Finnish Ballet from 1978–1984 and with the Cullberg Ballet from 1984 until 1990...
  
  )
• Desmond Richardson: Solo
• Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group: BIG BRICK: a man's piece
• Eiko & Koma
  Eiko & Koma
  Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, sound, and time...
  
  : Snow
• Paul Taylor Dance Company
  Paul Taylor Dance Company
  Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries" and still spends more than half of each...
  
  : Promethean Fire
• Ronald K. Brown\EVIDENCE: Upside Down
• LAVA: Double Trapeze
• Batoto Yetu: Nzinga (excerpts)
• Yin Mei Dance: Empty Tradition/City of Peonies
• Tamango & Roxane Butterfly: Two-way improvisation
• Garth Fagan Dance
  Garth Fagan
  Gawain Garth Fagan, CD is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York.-Early years:...
  
  : DANCECOLLAGEFORROMIE
• American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
  
  : Diana and Acteon
• Big Dance Theater: City of Brides
• Pardigm: One
• Sidi Goma: Kari Damal

2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/arts/dance/25rock.htmlNY Times by John Rockwell

John Rockwell

John Rockwell is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture....

, September 25]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/arts/dance/29fall.htmlNY Times by John Rockwell

John Rockwell

John Rockwell is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture....

, September 29]http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/fest_off_on_right_foot_tix_just_Qo1HJ9qx7ENLo8mW2aU3cNNY Post by Clive Barnes

Clive Barnes (critic)

Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...

, September 30]NY Sun by Aeron Kopriva, October 4

• Black Grace, Minoi
• Bill Irwin & Friends
  Bill Irwin
  William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on...
  
  , untitled
• Ballet de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Duo William Forsythe
  William Forsythe (dancer)
  William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...
  
  , choreographer
• Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, Water and Fire
• PHILADANCO, Gate Keepers, Ronald K. Brown, choreographer
• Limón Dance Company
  José Limón
  José Arcadio Limón was a pioneer in the field of modern dance and choreography. In 1928, at age 20, he moved to New York City where he studied under Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company...
  
  , Psalm José Limón, choreographer
• Tania Isaac Dance, letter home/Bam Bam excerpts, Tania Isaac, choreographer
• Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de danza, Los Horas (excerpts)
• Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company, Rhythm & Sound
• Houston Ballet
  Houston Ballet
  The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains a ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy, which trains more than half of the company's dancers...
  
  , Nosotros, Stanton Welch, choreographer
• American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
  
  , Le Spectre de la Rose
  Le Spectre de la Rose
  Le Spectre de la Rose is a ballet of the Ballets Russes based on a poem by Théophile Gautier. The music, by Carl Maria von Weber, was his 1819 piano piece Invitation to the Dance, in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. Choreography was by Michel Fokine and set and costume design by Léon Bakst...
  
  , Michel Fokine
  Michel Fokine
  Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.-Biography:...
  
  , choreographer
• Urban Bush Women, Sacred Vessel, Bridget L. Moore, choreographer
• Keigwin + Company, Angels of Anxiety, Larry Keigwin, choreographer
• Zaccho Dance Theatre, Dance in a Doorway Joanna Haigood and Remy Charlip
  Remy Charlip
  Abraham Remy' Charlip is an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, designer and teacher.-Career:He studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.In the 1960s Charlip created a unique form of...
  
  , choreographers
• Eva Yerbabuena, Del Puente Soleá
• Molissa Fenley & Dancers
  Molissa Fenley
  Molissa Fenley is a choreographer, modern dancer, and part-time associate professor of dance at Mills College. She has accepted commissions from Deutsche Oper Ballet of Berlin, Australian Dance Theatre, The Ohio Ballet, and The Pacific Northwest Ballet, and has won two New York Dance and...
  
  , Hemispheres excerpts
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  Alvin Ailey
  Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance...
  
   Cry Alvin Ailey, choreographer
• Tapage, Morango ... almost a tango Mari Fujibayashi and Olivia Rosenkrantz, choreographers
• New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
  
  , Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, George Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  , choreographer
• Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Bolero
• Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal is a Canadian ballet company based in Montreal, Quebec.It was founded in 1957 by Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Conductor and composer Michel Perrault served as the organization's first music director. In 2000, Gradimir Pankov became Artistic Director...
  
  , Minus One Ohad Naharin
  Ohad Naharin
  Ohad Naharin is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director.-Biography:...
  
  , choreographer
• Nai-Ni Chen, Passage to the Silk River
• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  , Circular Motion
• Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company, Air-Condition excerpts
• Paul Taylor Dance Company, Esplanade
• Charles Moulton, 48 Person Precision Ball Passing
• Vincent Mantsoe, NDAA excerpt
• Compagnie Marie Chouinard, 24 Preludes by Chopin excerpts
• Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 excerpts
• Joffrey Ballet
  Joffrey Ballet
  The Joffrey Ballet is a dance company in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1956. From 1995 to 2004, the company was known as The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. The company regularly performs classical ballets including Romeo & Juliet and The Nutcracker, while balancing those classics with pioneering modern...
  
  , Suite Saint-Saëns, Gerald Arpino
  Gerald Arpino
  Gerald Arpino was an American dancer and choreographer. He was the artistic director and co-founder of The Joffrey Ballet.-Life and career:...
  
  , choreographer

2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/arts/dance/30fall.htmlNY Times by John Rockwell

John Rockwell

John Rockwell is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture....

, September 30]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/arts/dance/02fall.htmlNY Times by Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...

, October 2]NY Sun by Joy Goodwin, October 5http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/arts/dance/10danc.htmlNY Times by Roslyn Sulcas

Roslyn Sulcas

Roslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...

, October 10]

• Yi-Jo Lim Sun Dance Company: Heaven and Earth
• Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet
  Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell , Rudi van Dantzig , Wayne Eagling and is currently directed by Ted Brandsen. It is the largest dance company in the Netherlands and attracts many...
  
  : Before After (choreographer: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)
• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
  Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
  The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is an American dance company based out of Harlem in New York City. Founded in 1983 by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the company made its debut performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the world premiere of Intuitive Momentum with lauded drummer...
  
   : Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin (excerpt)
• Trisha Brown Dance Company:Set and Reset
• Pennsylvania Ballet
  Pennsylvania Ballet
  Founded in 1963 by Balanchine student and protégée Barbara Weisberger, Pennsylvania Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in the United States. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company’s annual local season features six programs of classic favorites and new works, including the...
  
  : 11:11 (choreographer: Matthew Neenan)
• Stephen Petronio Company: Lareigne
• nathantrice/RITUALS: Prophet & Betrayer (choreographer: Nathan Trice)
• Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie: Fifteen Heterosexual Duets (excerpt) (choreographer: James Kudelka)
• Compagnie Franck II Louise: DROP IT! (excerpt)
• Paul Taylor Dance Company: Syzygy
• Alonzo King's Lines Ballet: The MOROCCAN Project (excerpt)
• The Martha Graham Dance Company–Satyric Festival Song
• New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
  
  : In the Night
  In the Night
  In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
  
   (choreographer: Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  )
• Compagnie La BARAKA / Abou LAGRAA: Ou Transe (excerpt)
• The Parsons Dance Company: Swing Shift (choreographer David Parsons)
• Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
  Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
  Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is an American contemporary dance company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1964 by University of Utah dance instructors Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe the company is dedicated to furthering contemporary dance by creating and performing original works of...
  
  : Tensile Involvement (choreographer: Alwin Nikolais
  Alwin Nikolais
  Alwin Nikolais was an American choreographer.Nikolais studied piano at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films. As a young artist, he gained skills in scenic design, acting, puppetry and music composition...
  
  )
• Maureen Fleming Company:–The Stairs (excerpt)
• American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
  
  : White Swan/Black Swan pas de deux
  Swan Lake
  Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
  
   (choreographers: Lev Ivanov
  Lev Ivanov
  Lev Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet....
  
   and Marius Petipa
  Marius Petipa
  Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived....
  
  )
• Robert Moses Kin
  Robert Moses Kin
  Robert Moses' Kin is an American dance company known for artistic and choreographic innovation. It is founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in 1995.-Founder:Robert Moses...
  
  : Cause (excerpt)
• Honvéd Dance Company:Black Pearls
• Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet
  Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...
  
  :The Piano Dance (choreographer: Paul Gibson)
• Christopher Williams:–ginja sem caroço (excerpt)
• Random Dance: Polar Sequences (choreographer: Wayne McGregor
  Wayne McGregor
  Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science...
  
  )
• Bridgman/Packer Dance: Under The Skin (excerpt) (choreographers: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer)
• Farruco (choreographer: Antonio Fernández Montoya)
• STREB Extreme Action:Streb vs. Gravity (excerpt) (choreographer: Elizabeth Streb
  Elizabeth Streb
  Elizabeth Streb is an American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance.-Background:Streb was born and raised in Rochester, New York and, after graduating from the dance program of State University of New York at Brockport in 1972, she was interested in experimental works and...
  
  )
• ASzURe & Artists–Mais We (excerpt) (choreographer: Aszure Barton
  Aszure Barton
  - Career :Barton was raised in Canada where she studied dance from a young age. After training at the Edmonton School of Ballet, Alberta School of Ballet, John Cranko Schule in Germany and Royal Winnipeg Ballet she left home at age fourteen to study at the National Ballet School in Toronto...
  
  )
• George Piper Dances/Ballet Boyz–Torsion (choreographer: Russell Maliphant
  Russell Maliphant
  Russell Maliphant is a British choreographer who trained at the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. As a performer Maliphant worked with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark & Company, Laurie...
  
  )
• Odile Duboc-Contre Jour: boléro, one (excerpt) (choreographer: Odile Duboc)
• Jason Samuels Smith’s A.C.G.I.: Peace of Mind (choreographer: Jason Samuels Smith)

2007

City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

, Septemberhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/dance/28fall.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...

, September 28]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/arts/dance/01fest.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...

, October 1]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/arts/dance/06danc.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...

, October 6]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/arts/dance/08fall.htmlNY Times by Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is a dance critic for the New York Times. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press,- External links : * ** * **...

, October 8]http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-09-25/dance/the-price-is-rightVillage Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

, September 25]NY Sun by Joel Lobenthal, September 6

• American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
  
   … choreographer: George Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  
• http://www.armitagegonedance.org … choreographer: Arnie Zane
  Arnie Zane
  Arnie Zane was an American photographer, choreographer, and dancer. He is best known as the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.-Early years:...
  
  
• http://www.ballethispanico.org/company/company_index.html:,
• Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
   …
• Buckets & Tap Shoes: ,
• Camille A. Brown and Dancers: ,
• Carmen deLavallade / Jane Ira Bloom: Kiss
• http://www.kafig.com/: ,
• Doug Varone
  Doug Varone
  Choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, television and fashion. In 2007 he created three major pieces for his own Doug Varone and Dancers – the full-length multi-media Dense Terrain at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Victorious, commissioned by Bard’s SummerScape,...
  
   and Dancers …
• http://elisamontedance.org/: ,
• Johan Kobborg
  Johan Kobborg
  Johan Kobborg is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.-Early Life:Johan Kobborg was born in Odense, Denmark into an artistic family; his mother is a former showgirl and actress and his brother is an actor...
  
   …
• Juliard Dance: Episodes
  Episodes (ballet)
  Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op. 21; Five Pieces, Op. 10; Concerto, Op. 24; and the Ricercata in Six Voices from Bach's Musical Offering which Webern had arranged in homage to Bach as Balanchine conceived the ballet as...
  
  
• http://www.keigwinandcompany.com/ …
• Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia …
• Rennie Harris Puremovement: Students of the Asphalt Jungle
• Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet
  Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
  
  ; Plan to B (choreographer: Jorma Elo
  Jorma Elo
  Jorma Elo is a contemporary choreographer. Elo began studying dance at a young age through classical training at the Finnish National Ballet School and the Kirov Ballet School. He danced with the Finnish Ballet from 1978–1984 and with the Cullberg Ballet from 1984 until 1990...
  
  )
• Desmond Richardson: Solo
• Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group: BIG BRICK: a man's piece
• Eiko & Koma
  Eiko & Koma
  Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, sound, and time...
  
  : Snow
• Paul Taylor Dance Company
  Paul Taylor Dance Company
  Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries" and still spends more than half of each...
  
  : Promethean Fire
• Ronald K. Brown\EVIDENCE: Upside Down
• LAVA: Double Trapeze
• Batoto Yetu: Nzinga (excerpts)
• Yin Mei Dance: Empty Tradition/City of Peonies
• Tamango & Roxane Butterfly: Two-way improvisation
• Garth Fagan Dance
  Garth Fagan
  Gawain Garth Fagan, CD is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York.-Early years:...
  
  : DANCECOLLAGEFORROMIE
• American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre
  American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
  
  : Diana and Acteon
• Big Dance Theater: City of Brides
• Pardigm: One
• Sidi Goma: Kari Damal

Week one, September 17–21

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/falling_for_fluid_feet_QlCELk8n7IVe4tUOWHW7KMNY Post by Clive Barnes

Clive Barnes (critic)

Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...

, September 22]
program one City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

, SeptemberNY Times by Gia Kourlas, September 18NY Sun by Joel Lobenthal, September 19

• Wednesday, September 17

• Thursday, September 18

• • Shen Wei Dance Arts, Map (excerpts), choreography by Shen Wei
    Shen Wei
    Shen Wei is a Chinese choreographer and dancer. He lives and works in New York City and is director of the modern dance company Shen Wei Dance Arts...
    
    

• • Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, Chui Chai, choreography by Pichet Klunchun

• • Keigwin + Company, Fire, choreography by Larry Keigwin

• • The National Ballet of Canada
    National Ballet of Canada
    The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
    
    , Soldiers' Mass, choreography by Jirí Kylián
    Jiří Kylián
    Jiří Kylián is a Czech dance choreographer.Kylián studied in Prague and, at the age of 20, won a scholarship at the Royal Ballet School in London. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under John Cranko, where he began to choreograph. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans...
    
    

program two NY Times by Gia Kourlas, September 21

• Friday, September 19

• • Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Sounddance, choreography by Merce Cunningham
    Merce Cunningham
    Mercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...
    
    

• • Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Awassa Astrige / Ostrich, choreography by Asadata Dafora
    Asadata Dafora
    Austin Dafora Horton widely known as Asadata Dafora was a Sierra Leonean multidisciplinary musician. He was one of the first Africans to introduce African drumming music to the United States, beginning in the early 1930s...
    
    

• • American Ballet Theatre
    American Ballet Theatre
    American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...
    
    , The Leaves Are Fading (pas de deux ), choreography by Antony Tudor
    Antony Tudor
    Antony Tudor was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.-Biography:Tudor, born William Cook, discovered dance accidentally. He began dancing professionally with Marie Rambert in 1928, becoming general assistant for her Ballet Club the next year...
    
    

• • Louise Lecavalier
    Louise LeCavalier
    Louise Lecavalier, OC is a Canadian dancer, known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance.Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that she met Édouard...
    
    , Lone Epic (excerpt), choreography by Crystal Pite

• • Ayodele Casel, Sarah Savelli & Dancers, Tap Into Peace (excerpts), choreography by Ayodele Casel and Sarah Savelli

program three

• Saturday, September 20

• Sunday, September 21

• • Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal, [bjm_danse], Les Chambres des Jacques (excerpt), choreography by Aszure Barton

• • Oregon Ballet Theatre, RUSH (pas de deux), choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    

• • Madhavi Mudgal, Odissi:PRAVAHA, choreography by Madhavi Mudgal

• • Sheron Wray, Harmonica Breakdown, choreography by Jane Dudley
    Jane Dudley
    For other people named Jane Dudley, see Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland and Lady Jane GreyJane Dudley was an American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.-Biography:...
    
    

• • Hofesh Shechter Company, Uprising (excerpt), choreography by Hofesh Shechter

program four http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/dance/25fall.htmlNY Times by Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is a dance critic for the New York Times. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press,- External links : * ** * **...

, September 24]

• Tuesday, September 23

• Wednesday, September 24

• • BeijingDance / LDTX, The Cold Dagger (excerpt), choreography by Li Hanzhong and Ma Bo

• • Houston Ballet
    Houston Ballet
    The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains a ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy, which trains more than half of the company's dancers...
    
    , Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
    Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
    The Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to an excerpt from Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act III, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
    
    , choreography by George Balanchine
    George Balanchine
    George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
    
    

• • Richard Siegal/The Bakery, The New 45, choreography by Richard Siegal

• • Fang-Yi Sheu
    Fang-Yi Sheu
    Fang-Yi Sheu , a native of Taiwan and now living in New York City, was the principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company. She founded LAFA & Artists Dance Company with choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava in May 2007....
    
    , Single Room (excerpt), choreography by Bulareyuang Pagarlava

• • The Gentlemen of Hälau Nä Kamalei, Kahikilani, choreography by Robert Uluwehi Cazimero

program five http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/arts/dance/27fall.htmlNY Times by Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is a dance critic for the New York Times. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press,- External links : * ** * **...

, September 26]

• Thursday, September 25

• • The Suzanne Farrell Ballet
    Suzanne Farrell Ballet
    The Suzanne Farrell Ballet is a ballet company housed at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and founded in 2000 by Suzanne Farrell, one of George Balanchine's most celebrated ballerinas, and a former New York City Ballet principal dancer. Today, the ballet is a full-fledged company produced by...
    
    , Pithoprakta, choreography by George Balanchine
    George Balanchine
    George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
    
    

• • Talia Paz, Love (excerpt), choreography by Sharon Eyal

• • The Lombard Twins, Lombard Play Piazzolla – The Dance Concert, choreography by Martin and Facundo Lombard

• • Kate Weare Company, The Light Has Not the Arms to Carry Us, choreography by Kate Weare
    Kate Weare
    Kate Weare American Choreographer and Artistic Director of 21st century-Biography:-Accomplishments:.-Notes and references:* Reviews in Dance Magazine by Allan Ulrich...
    
    

• • Garth Fagan Dance, From Before, choreography by Garth Fagan
    Garth Fagan
    Gawain Garth Fagan, CD is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York.-Early years:...
    
    

program six http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/dance/29robb.htmlNY Times by Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is a dance critic for the New York Times. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press,- External links : * ** * **...

, September 28]

• Friday, September 26

• Saturday, September 27

• • Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
    Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
    - External links :*...
    
    , Sweet Fields, choreography by Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.-Early years:Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.she spend hours working on it to help her...
    
    

• • San Francisco Ballet
    San Francisco Ballet
    The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the first professional ballet company in the United States...
    
    , In the Night
    In the Night
    In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
    
    , choreography by Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
    
    

• • • Yuan Yuan Tan
      Yuan Yuan Tan
      Yuanyuan Tan She won multiple international awards at an early age; including a gold medal and the Nijinsky Award at the 1st Japan International Ballet and Modern Dance Competition and a gold medal in the 5th International Ballet Competition in Paris . At age 18, she became a soloist dancer with...
      
      
    • Sofiane Sylve
    • Lorena Feijoo

• • • Ruben Martin
    • Tiit Helimets
    • Pierre-François Vilanoba

• • Compañia Nacional de Danza, Artistic Director Nacho Duato, Cor Perdut, choreography by Nacho Duato
    Nacho Duato
    Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato is a Spanish modern ballet dancer and choreographer. After a long and successful career, he was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education as the artistic director of the National Spanish Dance Company in June 1990...
    
    

• • Paul Taylor Dance Company, Esplanade, choreography by Paul Taylor

Week one, September 22–27

• Tuesday, September 22 City Center
  New York City Center
  New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
  
  , Tuesday and Wednesday, September 22–23rdhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/arts/dance/24fall.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , September 23]NY Post by Leigh Witchel, September 24

• • Boston Ballet
    Boston Ballet
    Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
    
    
    • Afternoon of a Faun by Vaslav Nijinsky
      Vaslav Nijinsky
      Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...
      
       to music of Claude Debussy
      Claude Debussy
      Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
      
      

• Lorna Feijóo
• Alison Basford
• Megan Gray
• Kelsey Hellebuyck
• Kimberly Uphoff
• Luciana Voltolini
• Heather Waymack

• Altankhuyag Dugaraa

• • Paul Taylor
    Paul Taylor
    Paul Taylor is one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century.Paul Taylor is the last living member of the pantheon that created America’s indigenous art of modern dance...
    
     Dance Company
    Paul Taylor Dance Company
    Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries" and still spends more than half of each...
    
    
    • Offenbach Overtures

• • Batsheva Dance Company
    Batsheva Dance Company
    The Batsheva Dance Company is an internationally acclaimed dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964....
    
     by Ohad Naharin
    Ohad Naharin
    Ohad Naharin is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director.-Biography:...
    
     to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    
    • B/olero

• Iyar Elezra
• Bobbi Smith

• • Savion Glover
    Savion Glover
    Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
    
     & The OtheRz
    • THE STaRz and STRiPes 4EVeR for NoW

• Savion Glover
  Savion Glover
  Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
  
  
  • The HooFeRz
    • Marshall Davis, Jr.
    • Cartier Williams

• • The OTHeRz
    • Tommy Janes
    • Patience Higgins
    • Victor Jones
    • Andy McCloud

• Wednesday, September 23

• • Boston Ballet
    Boston Ballet
    Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...
    
    
    • Afternoon of a Faun by Vaslav Nijinsky
      Vaslav Nijinsky
      Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...
      
       to music of Claude Debussy
      Claude Debussy
      Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
      
      

• Lia Cirio
• Alison Basford
• Megan Gray
• Kelsey Hellebuyck
• Kimberly Uphoff
• Luciana Voltolini
• Heather Waymack

• Altankhuyag Dugaraa

• • Paul Taylor
    Paul Taylor
    Paul Taylor is one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century.Paul Taylor is the last living member of the pantheon that created America’s indigenous art of modern dance...
    
     Dance Company
    Paul Taylor Dance Company
    Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries" and still spends more than half of each...
    
    
    • Offenbach Overtures

• • Batsheva Dance Company
    Batsheva Dance Company
    The Batsheva Dance Company is an internationally acclaimed dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964....
    
     by Ohad Naharin
    Ohad Naharin
    Ohad Naharin is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director.-Biography:...
    
     to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    
    • B/olero

• Iyar Elezra
• Bobbi Smith

• • Savion Glover
    Savion Glover
    Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
    
     & The OtheRz
    • THE STaRz and STRiPes 4EVeR for NoW

• Savion Glover
  Savion Glover
  Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
  
  
  • The HooFeRz
    • Marshall Davis, Jr.
    • Cartier Williams

• • The OTHeRz
    • Tommy Janes
    • Patience Higgins
    • Victor Jones
    • Andy McCloud

• Thursday and Friday, September 24–25th City Center
  New York City Center
  New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
  
  , Thursday and Friday, September 24–25thhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/dance/26roma.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , September 25]

• • Martha Graham
    Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
    
     Dance Company
    • Diversion of Angels

• • Tangueros del Sur
    • Romper el Piso

• • Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    
    • Softly as I Leave You by Lightfoot León

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  

• • Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
    • Noces

• Saturday and Sunday, September 26–27th City Center
  New York City Center
  New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
  
  , Saturday and Sunday, September 26–27thhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/arts/dance/28suit.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , September 27]

• • Basil Twist
    Basil Twist
    Basil Twist is a New York City-based puppeteer who is best known for his underwater puppet show, "Symphonie Fantastique".-Life and work:Originally from San Francisco, Basil Twist is a third generation puppeteer. He graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in...
    
    
    • Petrushka Suite to music of Igor Stravinsky
      Igor Stravinsky
      Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
      
      

• • Monica Bill Barnes & Company
    • I feel like

• Deborah Lohse
• Anna Bass
• Monica Bill Barnes

• • Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an American all-male drag ballet corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet. The company was co-founded by Peter Anastos, Natch Taylor and Antony Bassae in New York City in 1974, producing small, late-night shows, in...
    
    
    • Go for Barocco

Katerina Bychkova

Vanya Verikosa

• Joshua Grant
• Brock Hayhoe

• • DanceBrazil
    DanceBrazil
    DanceBrazil is an American dance company based out of New York City which presents works based upon the dance and music of the Brazilian culture. The company particularly excells in performances of works from the Afro-Brazilian artistic movement, particularly capoeira, and contemporary dances...
    
    
    • Culture in Motion

Week two, September 30 – October 3

• Wednesday and Thursday, September 30 – October 1 City Center
  New York City Center
  New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
  
  , Wednesday and Thursday, September 30 – October 1http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/arts/dance/02ballet.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , October 1]

• • Ballet West
    Ballet West
    Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah was founded in 1963 by Glenn Walker Wallace, who served as its first president. It was called the Utah Civic Ballet company. Willam F...
    
    
    • Les Biches
      Les Biches
      Les biches is a ballet by Francis Poulenc, premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1924. The composer, who was at the time relatively unknown, was asked by Serge Diaghilev to write a piece based on Glazunov's Les Sylphides, written seventeen years earlier...
      
      by Bronislava Nijinska
      Bronislava Nijinska
      Bronislava Nijinska - February 22, 1972)) was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent.Nijinska was born in Minsk, the third child of the Polish dancers Tomasz and Eleonora Nijinska . Her brother was Vaslav Nijinsky...
      
       to music of Francis Poulenc
      Francis Poulenc
      Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
      
      

• • Dendy Dancetheater
    • Afternoon of the Faunes from Dream Analysis by Mark Dendy to music of Claude Debussy
      Claude Debussy
      Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
      
      

• Lonnie Poupard, Jr.
• Alex Dean Speedie

• • New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
    
    
    • Four Bagatelles
      Four Bagatelles
      Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
      
      by Jerome Robbins
      Jerome Robbins
      Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
      
       to music of Ludwig van Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven
      Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
      
       Four Bagatelles
      Four Bagatelles
      Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
      
      replaced the Herman Schmerman pas de deux.

• Tiler Peck

• Gonzalo Garcia

• • Mark Morris Dance Group
    • Grand Duo

• Friday and Saturday, October 2–3rd City Center
  New York City Center
  New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
  
  , Friday and Saturday, October 2–3rdhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/arts/dance/06australian.htmlNY Times by Roslyn Sulcas
  Roslyn Sulcas
  Roslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...
  
  , October 5]

• • The Australian Ballet
    • Le Spectre de la Rose
      Le Spectre de la Rose
      Le Spectre de la Rose is a ballet of the Ballets Russes based on a poem by Théophile Gautier. The music, by Carl Maria von Weber, was his 1819 piano piece Invitation to the Dance, in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. Choreography was by Michel Fokine and set and costume design by Léon Bakst...
      
      by Michel Fokine
      Michel Fokine
      Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.-Biography:...
      
       to music of Carl Maria von Weber
      Carl Maria von Weber
      Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
      
      

• Gina Brescianini

• Tzi-Chao Chou

• • Sang Jijia
    Sang Jijia
    Sang Jijia is an ethnic Tibetan Chinese choreographer. He was a dancer of Guangdong Modern Dance Company and City Contemporary Dance Company in the 1990s...
    
    
    • Snow

• • Diana Vishneva
    Diana Vishneva
    Diana Vishneva is a prima ballerina with both the Mariinsky Ballet in Russia, and American Ballet Theatre in the United States. She was born in St. Petersburg and was trained at the Vaganova Choreographic Institute and upon her graduation in 1995, joined the company of the Mariinsky Theatre...
    
    , prima ballerina of the Mariinksy Theatre
    Mariinsky Ballet
    The Mariinsky Ballet is a classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading ballet companies...
    
    
    • The Dying Swan
      The Dying Swan
      The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....
      
      after Mikhail Fokine to music of Camille Saint-Saëns
      Camille Saint-Saëns
      Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
      
      

cello

piano

• Borislav Struley
• Maxim Mogilevsky

• • Alvin Ailey
    Alvin Ailey
    Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance...
    
     American Dance Theater
    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
    The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey...
    
    

• • • Revelations

Pilgrim of Sorrow

I Been 'Buked

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

Fix Me, Jesus

Take Me to the Water

Processional / Honor, Honor

Wade in the Water

I Wanna Be Ready

Move, Members, Move

Sinner Man

Sinner Man

"Sinner Man" or "Sinnerman" is an American traditional spiritual song that has been recorded by a number of performers. The song dates to the turn of the 20th century but most modern recorded versions derive from the 1956 recording by Les Baxter, further changes and additions were codified in 1959...

The Day is Past and Gone

You May Run On

Rocka My soul in the Bosom of Abraham

program one

• Tuesday, September 28 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/arts/dance/30fall.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , September 29]

• Wednesday, September 29

program two

• Thursday, September 30

• Friday, October 1

program three

• Saturday, October 2

• Sunday, October 3

program four

• Wednesday, October 6

• Thursday, October 7

program five

• Friday, October 8

• Saturday, October 9

program one

Thursday, September 27^th

Friday, September 28^st

• Mark Morris Dance Group
  Mark Morris
  Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments...
  
  , All Fours
• Lil' Buck, The Swan
  The Dying Swan
  The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....
  
  
• Trisha Brown Dance Company
  Trisha Brown
  Trisha Brown is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For several summers she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance...
  
  , Rogues
• The Joffrey Ballet
  Joffrey Ballet
  The Joffrey Ballet is a dance company in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1956. From 1995 to 2004, the company was known as The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. The company regularly performs classical ballets including Romeo & Juliet and The Nutcracker, while balancing those classics with pioneering modern...
  
  , Woven Dreams, Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  , chor.

program two

Saturday, September 29^th

Sunday, September 30^th

• Vertigo Dance Company, Mana (adapted for FFD), Noa Wertheim, chor.
• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  , new work (commissioned by FFD), Andrea Miller, artistic director of Gallim Dance
• Jessica Lang Dance, Among the Stars
• Richard Alston Dance Company
  Richard Alston (choreographer)
  Richard Alston is a British choreographer. He has been Resident Choreographer and Artistic Director for the Ballet Rambert and is currently Artistic Director at The Place....
  
  , Roughcut

program three

Tuesday, November 1^st

Wednesday, November 2^nd

• Gemini, The Australian Ballet, Glen Tetley
  Glen Tetley
  Glen Tetley was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.-Biography:Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. was born on February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  , chor.

• Lana Jones
• Amber Scott

• Adam Bull
• Rudy Hawkes

• Something Different, Steven McRae, principal dancer, The Royal Ballet, London

• Faune
  Afternoon of a Faun
  L'après-midi d'un faune may refer to the following:*L'après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé**Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , composition by Claude Debussy, inspired by Mallarmé's poem**Afternoon of a Faun , ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky, which uses Debussy's music and was also...
  
  , Pontus Lidberg Dance

• Pontus Lidberg

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  
• Gabrielle Lamb
  Gabrielle Lamb
  Gabrielle Lamb is a ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. She trained at the Boston Ballet School before joining Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2000, where she was promoted to soloist in two years later...
  
  

• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Craig Hall
  Craig Hall
  Craig Hall is a rugby league player currently playing for Hull KR in the Super League. Primarily a , he broke into the first team in 2007 after progressing through Hull's academy. His first Hull first team hat trick was against Castleford Tigers at the KC Stadium, on 15 June 2008, where he came on...
  
  

• THREE TO MAX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is an American dance company based in Chicago. HSDC performs in downtown Chicago and its metropolitan area and tours nationally and internationally throughout the year....
  
  , Ohad Naharin
  Ohad Naharin
  Ohad Naharin is an Israeli contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director.-Biography:...
  
  , chor.

program four

Thursday, November 3^rd

Friday, November 4^th

• CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig, Agwa, Mourad Merzouki, chor.
• Weight x 3, TAO Dance Theater
• Royal Ballet of Flanders, The Return of Ulysses, Christian Spuck, chor.
• Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba, Pa’ Cuba me voy

program five

Saturday, November 5^th

Sunday matinée, November 6^th

• Maurice Chestnut, Floating
• Polyphonia, New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet
  New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
  
  , Christopher Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
  
  , chor.
• Lichtung/Clearing, Liz Gerring Dance Company
• Festa Barocca, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey...
  
  , Mauro Bigonzetti
  Mauro Bigonzetti
  Mauro Bigonzetti is an internationally acclaimed choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Rome in 1960, Bigonzetti trained at the ballet school of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and entered their company in 1979. In 1983 he joined the Reggio Emilia company Aterballetto, renowned for its...
  
  , chor.

Playbill Arts

• Matthew Westphal and Vivien Schweitzer, September 28, 2006

• Susan Reiter, September 28, 2006

External links

• Fall for Dance webpage