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Best of 2013: Best dance of 2013

Young experimentalists and rigorous classical ballet: The dance world is shaping up

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It's slightly disconcerting when the best dance of the year occurred early on, but that was the case with Jennifer Monson's Live Dancing Archive, which drew on her blessedly long career as one of New York's finest dance artists. New ballets by Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Robert Garland—Dance Theatre of Harlem's resident choreographer and one of the ballet world's most valuable, if underutilized, choreographers—were in full swing, and Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor's Festival TBD: Emergency Glitter placed a well-deserved spotlight on the work of a younger generation. Here are some highlights of 2013.


Those quiet dances that you can't quite forget
It’s true, right? Melanie Maar’s Our Other; Gwen Welliver’s Beasts and Plots; Joanna Kotze’s It Happened It Had Happened It Is Happening It Will Happen; and Fanny de Chaillé’s The Library.
And on the bigger, even bombastic side
Pam Tanowitz’s The Spectators (the first 20 minutes were a miracle), pictured; Pascal Rambert’s A (micro) history of world economics, danced; and Matthew Neenan’s The Last Glass for Ballet X. FINAL GRADE: B+ Don’t get me wrong—there were terrible shows. But what rises to the surface matters.

Best of 2013

  • Off-Off Broadway
Best theater of 2013
Best theater of 2013

From the best new Broadway shows to groundbreaking downtown experiments, it was a very good year for New York theater.

  • Art
Best art of 2013
Best art of 2013

A century after the Armory Show first stormed New York, the art world abjures shock for pleasant surprises

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  • Movies
Best films of 2013
Best films of 2013

From established Hollywood auteurs to the foreign and indie fringes, cinema brought its A-game

  • Dance
Best dance of 2013
Best dance of 2013

Young experimentalists and rigorous classical ballet: The dance world is shaping up

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  • Comedy
Best comedy of 2013
Best comedy of 2013

New faces took over for émigrés, old dogs learned new tricks, and Dave Chappelle lit up stages in New Jersey

  • Things to do
  • Literary events
Best books of 2013
Best books of 2013

Pro wrestling, Scientology and the ’70s art world buzz through our favorite fiction and nonfiction of the year

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  • LGBTQ+
Best and worst of LGBT New York 2013
Best and worst of LGBT New York 2013

A New Yorker helped bring marriage equality to the nation, while hate crimes against queer Gothamites surged. It was a complicated year in LGBT New York.

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