New York Times - Dance

The dancers Valentino Zucchetti and Taisuke Nakao reflect on their careers and on ways they have striven to fulfill the ballet founder’s vision.Valentino Zucchetti is one of the Royal Ballet’s first soloists and is leaving the company after 16 years, with his final performance scheduled for Oct. 24.

Eye-catching costumes? Eerie foghorns? For this year’s Beach Sessions, Alexa West shines a light on the bright and dark sides of American showbiz in “Amusement.”

Twenty-five years after 9/11 caused the cancellation of a Bill T. Jones group performance, he debuts a work in response.

The choreographer Sonya Tayeh’s “The Surge” is a dance response to themes in O’Connor’s life: spirituality, identity and what Tayeh calls jrage, or joy and rage.The choreographer Sonya Tayeh.

Also this season, the return of Balanchine’s “Pithoprakta” at New York City Ballet, a choreographer guides audiences on a nature hike, and reflections on this American moment.Kyle Abraham’s “Mercurial Son” for American Ballet Theater, with, from left, Joseph Markey, Sierra Armstrong and Carlos Gonzalez.