As part of the 2026 Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival in New York, we had the opportunity to step inside Lucinda Childs’ repertory. On February 26 and 27, at the New York Center for Creativity & Dance, a professional workshop dedicated to Radial Courses offered a rare chance to embody the technical rigor of Childs’ minimalist language. Led by Kyle Gerry, currently dancing with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the three-hour session revealed that what appears spare from the audience demands extraordinary mental and physical calibration from within.
