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Unknown Host hosts The Dance Lens Podcast, a arts show with 27 episodes published.
Join us for a conversation with choreographer Sophie Laplane and director James Bonas, the collaborators behind Scottish Ballet’s Mary, Queen of Scots (Lincoln Center Koch Theater June 4-7 2026), which draws on the imagi
INTERVIEW: Christine Cox, co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director of BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company, which she founded alongside choreographer Matthew Neenan in 2005. In two decades of
INTERVIEW: Jessica Lang on career-making, creativity and the hidden realities of becoming a choreographer. In anticipation of the All Lang program at Pacific Northwest Ballet. May 29-June 7 featuring ‘Her Door to the Sky
In this episode, we review the luminous interpretations of The Firebird at Dance Theatre of Harlem and its relationship to New York City Ballet’s. Both works are a deluge of beauty and an ocean of visual richness. Though
REVIEW: Kyle Abraham’s Cassette Vol. 1 at NYU Skirball transforms the 1980s into a neon-lit dreamscape of camp, nostalgia, and grief. Blending choreography, pop culture, and memory, the work moves through vignettes that
IN THIS EDITION: REVIEW: American Ballet Theater Spring Season 2026 “Othello” in 2 casts. What does Othello reveal about ballet, then and now? This episode revisits American Ballet Theatre’s landmark production through a
IN THIS EDITION -Review: Amercian Ballet Theater in The Firebird. Performed on March 13, 2026. -Misty Copeland at the Oscars FIREBIRD REVIEW: This was my first time seeing The Firebird by Alexei Ratmansky which premiered
IN THIS EDITION: -Interview with Serge Laurent, Director of Dance & Cultural Programs at Van Cleef & Arpels on the role of curation in dance’s development. -Upcoming LIVE TALK Seeing Dance: The Sleeping Beauty Then & Now
Silenced for one and a half centuries, Kathak dance, suppressed under British rule, went underground—yet survived, through secrecy and lineage. SPEAK Artists (L to R) Rukhmani Mehta, Dormeshia, Racha Nivas, Michelle Dorr
Alastair Macaulay is one of the most influential dance critics of all time—or, as some would say, the greatest of all time (a title he himself disputes, though I wholeheartedly maintain that he is the singular GOAT). His
“People say, ‘stay in your lane, you’re just an artist, but art was born out of politics—revolutions, wars, oppression. Tap dance emerged because enslaved people weren’t allowed to make music. Dancers come from communiti
Dance and the military might seem worlds apart—but their histories are surprisingly intertwined. Some of the world’s oldest ballet schools were tied to state military academies, and Napoleon himself organized the Paris O
Ahmad Joudeh’s phenomenal path is the subject of a new Documentary “The Dancer”, which premiere’s at San Francisco Dance Film Festival on November 8th. Born in a refugee camp in Syria, Joudeh literally risked his life to
At CARVALHO, New York gallery in Brooklyn, Cuban choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Claudia Hilda turns the experience of migration into a moving meditation on memory and belonging. Her new installation, Neither
In This Edition: PODCAST: Alec Knight on Balanchine, Dreams, and His Western Symphony Debut In this episode of The Dance Lens podcast, we sat down with Alec Knight, Soloist at New York City Ballet, on the cusp of his deb
In This Edition: -INTERVIEW Podcast With Ballet Conductor Garrett Keast. —REVIEW: The Art World & Dance: Meaningful Collaboration or Performative (literally) Fluff? OBSERVER REVIEW -DEEP DIVE Episode 1 of Our August Swan
In This Edition: -Podcast with Karen Valby, author of Swans of Harlem -A few book recs With the approaching slow slog of August upon us, it’s a perfect moment to catch up on the books we’ve been meaning to read. Here are
In This Edition: -Podcast interview with Yuan Yuan Tan -Notes on the complexities of artistic exchange and the new work Lady White Snake. Yuan Yuan Tan, San Francisco’s great ballerina, almost never became a dancer. Her
IN THIS EDITION: -Podcast & Note On Gillian Murphy’s Career -Recommended show (Lady White Snake) -Update on this Substack:) The career of American Ballet Theatre’s Gillian Murphy has spanned a rare arc. A jewel in the an
In This Edition: -Podcast of A Review of Paris Opera’s Sleeping Beauty -The Text of the Review in English -Where to Watch 6 Different Versions of Sleeping Beauty -The Review in French/La critique en français Revolution a
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