Contemporary dance training has branched out from the old-school models of modern versus ballet class, but there aren’t too many performers who get ready for a show by learning how to butcher a lamb.
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China. By Brian ...
In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...
There may be no one in the arts with a harder job than that of a modern-dance choreographer. When a writer can’t figure out what to say next, she can turn off the computer and go take a nap. A ...
He grew up in Miami, where he says his training prepared him for a career in dance, and at 19, he joined the Alvin Ailey ...
During a time when Blacks were shut out from many of the District’s dance schools, the Jones- Haywood Dance School (JHDS) was created to teach high-quality dance training and arts education to ...
The Scottish Institute (The SI), is set to welcome its first cohort in September 2025, making it the only higher education provider in Scotland to offer a course that is led by professional dance ...
The program booklet for William Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance has an entire paragraph in the choreographer’s biography dedicated to listing his lifetime achievement awards – such is the stature ...