Sarah Kaufman

Dance Critic

Washington, D.C.
Latest Articles

At Kennedy Center, Hubbard Street dance troupe keeps audience engaged, surprised and inquisitive

Troupe keep audience constantly engaged, surprised and inquisitive through richly textured performance.

Fri Oct 18 19:14:00 UTC 2013

‘Dancing the Dream’ at the Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery’s “Dancing the Dream” explores generations of American dance.

Fri Sep 27 15:14:00 UTC 2013

Dance review: Margaret Jenkins reworks her past in inventive ‘Times Bones’

Margaret Jenkins culled her earlier productions to produce a new and rewarding work.

Tue Sep 17 03:57:55 UTC 2013

Review: Teshigawara at Kennedy Center

The dance program at Kennedy Center has plenty to leave an audience uncomfortable

Fri Sep 13 20:58:00 UTC 2013

At Fall Festival of Indian Arts, veteran dancers will share their rich treasury of experience

Veteran dancers Astad Deboo and Shanta and V.P. Dhananjayan will put the power of gray on display.

Fri Sep 13 13:37:38 UTC 2013

Fear won’t keep ballet star David Hallberg from the Bolshoi

American dancer spoke at the Kennedy Center about his journey to the top of his profession.

Mon Sep 09 01:34:00 UTC 2013

Innovation — and staples — abound in fall 2013 dance schedule

Fri Sep 06 17:23:00 UTC 2013

Art review: ‘Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York’

‘Swing Time’ is the first major retrospective of the American scene painter’s work in more than 20 years

Fri Aug 16 15:26:00 UTC 2013

Hitchcock’s restored first film shows roots of fascination with dance

In his first film — part of nine that have been restored and are on tour — moving bodies evoked emotion.

Fri Aug 02 15:47:09 UTC 2013

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet wows Wolf Trap crowd despite missteps of two pieces

‘Samba’ shines, but two other dance pieces slide into familiar territory.

Wed Jul 31 22:03:03 UTC 2013

Paul McCarthy’s ‘WS’ and ‘James Turrell’: The spectrum of color and off-color on the East Side

Critic’s Notebook | Paul McCarthy and James Turrell — one earthy, the other ethereal — have East Side exhibits.

Fri Jul 26 16:29:00 UTC 2013

‘I’m So Excited’ and air travel choreography

“I’m So Excited” and the filmic choreography of air travel.

Fri Jul 19 16:01:00 UTC 2013

Annie-B Parson is about motion, not emotion

The choreographer behind “Here Lies Love” makes moves for Baryshnikov and David Byrne.

Fri Jul 12 16:45:24 UTC 2013

How Walt Disney got ‘Rite of Spring’ right

Others were wrong about Stravinsky’s score, but Walt Disney’s dinosaurs finally did the music justice.

Fri Jun 21 20:09:00 UTC 2013

At Kennedy Center, three new takes on ballet offer two revelations

At the Kennedy Center on Friday night, a new ballet took the form as its subject and didn’t blow it to pieces.

Sat Jun 08 22:04:15 UTC 2013

Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America: ‘Les Patineurs’ and ‘Wunderland’

“Les Patineurs,” performed by the Sarasota Ballet, is the jewel of this year’s series at the Kennedy Center.

Fri Jun 07 22:29:38 UTC 2013

‘Symphony in Three Movements’ makeover retains Balanchine ballet’s transcendence

Rendition of the Balanchine work caps the first night of the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America.

Wed Jun 05 18:40:00 UTC 2013

The dead can dance in Tantehorse production at the Atlas

REVIEW | Czech dancers perform “The Death of the Marquis de Sade” and “Dante: Light in a Darkness.”

Sun Jun 02 23:35:00 UTC 2013

2013 summer arts preview: The D.C. arts scene standouts you don’t want to miss

Everyone comes to Washington in the summer. So how will everyone spend their time?

Fri May 31 21:33:00 UTC 2013
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About Sarah
Sarah Kaufman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has been The Washington Post?s dance critic since 1996. But after logging serious sit-time in opera houses, church basements, fairground tents and lawn chairs, what moves her most is seeing grace happen where she least expects it.
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