Women take over: Future Dance Festival at New York's 92nd Street Y

Jacque Foreman and Caroline Clarke in Savea Kagan’s Glass Ceiling

Jeevika Bhat in Manikya

Lu Wang and Yuxi Liu in Truth

Miho Ryu in I'm still in the process of making peace with myself, though...

Eliud Xavier Melendez in Jessee Leigh Robinson’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

Grace Yi-Li Tong and Stephanie Shin in 3,2,1...GO

The Flock by Idy Vandepas

By Carla Escoda, 26 April 2026

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“cheeky, comic and increasingly desperate, looks of alarm punctuating the fragile levity”

Reviewed at The 92nd Street Y: Buttenwieser Hall, New York City on 17 April 2026

Unknown programme (Emily Aslin, Cristina Camacho, Omri Drumlevich, Bret Easterling, Margot Gelber, Seyong Kim, Marianna Koytsan, Chachi Perez)

Trojan’s Carousel: a magical night of dreams come true in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 23rd April

A vintage opera at the National Theatre offers charming adventures for children and musical sophistication for adults.

*****

Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall

Mark Pullinger, 10th April

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall.

****1

Ensemble Masques opens “Cembalomania” at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 12th December

Ensemble Masques brings French Baroque to life at the Elbphilharmonie, with Olivier Fortin’s radiant harpsichord, spirited strings and vivid interplay revealing the expressive richness of Couperin, Rameau, Forqueray and Corrette.

****1

La bohème as escapist epic at LA Opera

Néstor Castiglione, 22nd November

Puccini's tale of bohemian love lives on at the Dorothy Chandler as LA Opera launches its 2025-26 season.

****1

John Neumeier’s Liliom: A Prague triumph

Graham Watts, 23rd October

Czech National Ballet scores a hit in John Neumeier’s masterpiece Liliom, with back to back performances and multiple casts.

*****

Revival of Ostrčil’s The Legend of Erin misses the mark in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th October

An ambitious effort to honor hometown hero Otakar Ostrčil sags under its own weight at the Prague National Theatre.

***11

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.

Women take over: Future Dance Festival 2026 at New York's 92nd Street Y