#fridayfilmbreak 🎞 “This is about the humanity of the atrocities we are seeing daily,” says choreographer Matthew Steffens. On Monday, February 16, Presidents’ Day, 22 professional dancers gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. There, they performed a 90-second contemporary dance, titled "The ResistDance," choreographed by Steffens and performed by artist collective First Amendment Troop. The work honors the lives of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed by federal agents dur

The gist of the new musical The Jellicle Ball makes so much sense it seems inevitable in retrospect: a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enduring Broadway hit Cats, in the world of vogue dance and ballroom culture, à la Paris Is Burning and “Pose.” An expansive, multidisciplinary creative team includes co-choreographers Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles. The two go back more than a decade. Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch co-direct Jellicle’s premiere run, which begins June 13 at the new Perelman