At the start of “Navy Blue,” which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, a dozen dancers are lined up, dressed in mandarin-collared workers’ suits, their heads shaking ...

Doherty says the dancers in Navy Blue “were the Nikolai Dahl to my Rachmaninoff”. Dancing to the concerto’s first movement, the 12 dancers fully bask in the music’s grandeur. Slowly ...

In the second half of Navy Blue, Doherty’s voice emerges from the void and speaks to the audience through the dancers, accompanied by the thumping, rhythmic electronic music of Jamie xx.

The program’s second half is the US premiere of Doherty’s largest, most ambitious work to date, “Navy Blue.” It’s fitting that Doherty’s cast of 12 dancers (who are uniformly fabulous ...

A cast of 12 distinct performers tackles our collective responsibility for the failings of human existence in "Navy Blue," with ... these bodies bruise blue,” she asks us to consider the collective ...