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Erin Bomboy

Erin Bomboy has been writing about dance since 2013. She trained as a classical ballet dancer and spent a decade as a professional competitive ballroom dancer. She holds an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she was mentored by Deborah Jowitt. She lives in New York City with her husband, daughter and fabulous Maine Coon cat. In her free time, Erin enjoys bacon, books, wine and working out.

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SunMi Park as Tita and Daniel Camargo as Pedro in Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Marty Sohl

American Ballet Theatre's Like Water for Chocolate nails the climax

By Erin Bomboy, 17 July 2024

Wheeldon’s choreography eschews the sweep and expanse of classical ballet for gravity-succumbing floor rolls and lots of twirling, swirling and swishy port de bras.

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SunMi Park as Tita and Daniel Camargo as Pedro in Christopher Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Marty Sohl

American Ballet Theatre's Like Water for Chocolate nails the climax

The cast of Oona Doherty's Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert

Oona Doherty's Navy Blue at the Joyce Theater: too much talking

By Erin Bomboy, 06 June 2024

Authentic expression of one’s inner nature is swapped for the aims of the bloc until the very end.

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The cast of Oona Doherty's Navy Blue © Dajana Lothert

Oona Doherty's Navy Blue at the Joyce Theater: too much talking

Kate Prince's Message in a Bottle © Christopher Duggan

Message in a Bottle at New York City Center is heart-breaking

By Erin Bomboy, 02 May 2024

Whether it’s the manifold charms of the featured performers or the well-mixed tape of Sting’s music, you’d have to be made of stone not to be moved.

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Kate Prince's Message in a Bottle © Christopher Duggan

Message in a Bottle at New York City Center is heart-breaking

Nederlands Dans Theater in William Forsythe's N.N.N.N. © Rahi Rezvani

Nederlands Dans Theater: outstanding dancers but a gloomy program

By Erin Bomboy, 04 April 2024

NDT delivered, yet the triple-bill program never elevated itself beyond atmosphere and gimmicks.

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Nederlands Dans Theater in William Forsythe's N.N.N.N. © Rahi Rezvani

Nederlands Dans Theater: outstanding dancers but a gloomy program

Faye Driscoll's Weathering © Maria Baranova

New York Live Arts: Faye Driscoll's Weathering reaches boiling point

By Erin Bomboy, 11 January 2024

Atop a square, springy mattress of a platform, ten artists morph a sculpture of breath and flesh into a high-octane bacchanal.

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Faye Driscoll's Weathering © Maria Baranova

New York Live Arts: Faye Driscoll's Weathering reaches boiling point

Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny in common ground(s) © Stephanie Berger

common ground(s)/The Rite of Spring: an impactful debut in New York

By Erin Bomboy, 29 November 2023

Occurring at the Park Avenue Armory, the double bill program investigated stories of the crone and the maiden. They were united by the mother who brought us together – Pina Bausch.

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Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny in common ground(s) © Stephanie Berger

common ground(s)/The Rite of Spring: an impactful debut in New York

Room with a View with Ballet national de Marseille © Thomas Amouroux

Room with a View with Ballet national de Marseille: without purpose

By Erin Bomboy, 20 October 2023

Part rave, part burn-it-to-the-ground protest, Room with a View explores crowds in pitched circumstances and how their impulses can flip from dark to light, and vice versa.

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Room with a View with Ballet national de Marseille © Thomas Amouroux

Room with a View with Ballet national de Marseille: without purpose

Janet Charleston, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin in Douglas Dunn's Garden Party © Jacob Burckhardt

Douglas Dunn + Dancers: a joyous reprise of Garden Party

By Erin Bomboy, 08 September 2023

Douglas Dunn oversees the postmodern-minimalism-meets-romantic-maximalism vibe like a benign ringmaster, hanging out behind a semi-circle lectern. His Garden Party fulfils the promise as advertised.

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Janet Charleston, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin in Douglas Dunn's Garden Party © Jacob Burckhardt

Douglas Dunn + Dancers: a joyous reprise of Garden Party

Antonio Cangiano, Omar Rivéra, Leonardo Brito and Dylan Dias McIntyre in Línea Recta © Richard Termine

BAAND Together Festival unites 5 top-tier dance companies

By Erin Bomboy, 25 July 2023

It's got a lot of appeal, with a diverse range of choreography, and offering audiences the chance to see excellent dancing and even some partnerships forming from different companies.

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Antonio Cangiano, Omar Rivéra, Leonardo Brito and Dylan Dias McIntyre in Línea Recta © Richard Termine

BAAND Together Festival unites 5 top-tier dance companies

Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd © Ian Douglas

Variations on Themes from Lost and Found is proof that art matters

By Erin Bomboy, 26 May 2023

While not a retrospective, Variations on Themes from Lost and Found reveals Bernd’s preoccupations in such a way that I feel a kinship to him that transcends space and time.

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Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd © Ian Douglas

Variations on Themes from Lost and Found is proof that art matters

Kathy Westwater and Lance Gries in Revolver © Brian Rogers

Kathy Westwater's Revolver and Choreomaniacs lurch and flail

By Erin Bomboy, 21 April 2023

Prepare to watch the post-modern version of dancing like no one’s watching.

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Kathy Westwater and Lance Gries in Revolver © Brian Rogers

Kathy Westwater's Revolver and Choreomaniacs lurch and flail

Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin's Hora © Steven Pisano

Batsheva Dance Company: Hora swaggers with tenacity and confidence

By Erin Bomboy, 01 March 2023

Naharin’s Gaga technique is this delicious, ooey-gooey, melting morass where sensation rather than skill guides the phrases

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Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin's Hora © Steven Pisano

Batsheva Dance Company: Hora swaggers with tenacity and confidence

How to Fall Apart by AMOC © Baranova

How to Fall Apart: AMOC tackles climate change through dance

By Erin Bomboy, 10 February 2023

Combining musicians and dancers on stage, American Modern Opera Company’s How to Fall Apart filters the bombast of dramatic opera through the esoterica of downtown dance.

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How to Fall Apart by AMOC © Baranova

How to Fall Apart: AMOC tackles climate change through dance

Russell Janzen and Miriam Miller in Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes © Erin Baiano

Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes is 80 minutes of freewheeling!

By Erin Bomboy, 29 January 2023

Over twenty-two vignettes, some long, others short, a cast of thirty pedestrianizes ballet. The work suggests that who you are matters more than what you do.

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Russell Janzen and Miriam Miller in Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes © Erin Baiano

Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes is 80 minutes of freewheeling!

Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room © Benjamin Miller

Oldies but not Goodies: Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs in New York

By Erin Bomboy, 21 October 2022

Both In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs captivate at moments; however, they comment more on who we were than who we have become.

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Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room © Benjamin Miller

Oldies but not Goodies: Twyla Tharp's double bill in New York

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham ensemble in Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth © Erin Baiano

Kyle Abraham/A.I.M's Requiem: Fire in the Air of Earth, where life and death matter not at all

By Erin Bomboy, 12 August 2022

Kyle Abraham reimagines Mozart's Requiem with an electronic score by Jlin, a futuristic set and choreography that says little about life or death.

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A.I.M by Kyle Abraham ensemble in Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth © Erin Baiano

Kyle Abraham/A.I.M's Requiem, where life and death matter not at all

Luciana Paris, Devon Teuscher and Cassandra Trenary in ZigZag © Rosalie O’Connor

Moments and misses in American Ballet Theatre's American Splendor

By Erin Bomboy, 08 July 2022

American Ballet Theatre shows its range with pieces from George Balanchine, Alonzo King, and Jessica Lang, but the dancing and choreography remain uneven throughout.

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Luciana Paris, Devon Teuscher and Cassandra Trenary in ZigZag © Rosalie O’Connor

Moments and misses in American Ballet Theatre's American Splendor