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DANCE - All-Male Hula, a Tennis Ballet
The New Yorker
|August 28, 2023
Outdoor dance is nice, but there’s nothing like being in a theatre, with its dramatic lighting and proscenium.

At New York City Center’s popular and populist Fall for Dance Festival (Sept. 27-Oct. 8), twenty dollars buys an evening that might include the all-male hula troupe Kaleoolakaikahikinaokalā evoking Hawaii’s traditions through song, drumming, and movement (Oct. 3-4), or the ecstatic dancing of Brazil’s Grupo Corpo (Oct. 7-8).
New York’s two resident ballet companies take turns at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theatre. First comes New
This story is from the August 28, 2023 edition of The New Yorker.
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