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When theaters shut down in New York City early last year, Pam Tanowitz didn't know what to do with herself. She had just returned to Manhattan from Los Angeles, where [...]

Kara Leigh Cannella, a senior dance major at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, was scrolling through TikTok one day this fall, when she came across a sound that [...]

Even when just walking down the street, Xin Ying often can't help herself: She has to dance. One evening in June, while visiting family in Indiana, she paused on a [...]

Okwui Okpokwasili seems to gravitate toward tests of endurance. At the beginning of Adaku's Revolt, a recent collaboration with her husband Peter Born, four women (herself included) lie on their [...]

Since leaving Batsheva, Bobbi Jene Smith has brought her intense vulnerability to both the stage and the screen--and done it on her own terms. Even when marking a move in [...]

This year we celebrate four extraordinary dance heroes: New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck, choreographer Lar Lubovitch, activist/teacher Carolyn Adams and historian Lynn Garafola. TILER PECK Tiler Peck transcends [...]

On a Saturday in October, Omagbitse Omagbemi performed in Jon Kinzel's COWHAND CON MAN, for the eighth time in two weeks, at Gibney Dance in Lower Manhattan. Three days later [...]

As a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Melissa Toogood knows about extremes. In the past few years, since the troupe's closure, she's taken the Cunningham ethos of [...]

A bespectacled man draws a line in mid-air, as if extending a string from his chest. He retracts his hands, cupping them in front of his sternum, and flutters his [...]

When Celia Rowlson-Hall found out she would be choreographing for HBO's 'Girls,' she felt like she was in the right place. Woven into the drama of last season's 'Beach House' [...]

Ariel Cohen had no shortage of work when she decided to move to Berlin from Brooklyn, in 2010. If anything, she had too much. Since earning her MFA at Smith [...]

A beacon of light on the dance landscape since 1953, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will dim that light this month. When Merce died two years ago (See 'Transitions,' Oct. [...]

In January 2001, Dance Magazine published our first '25 to Watch.' From the recommendations of our esteemed writers, we chose 25 'dancers, choreographers, troupes, and trends we'll be watching in [...]

Last May Sarah Kaufman wrote a tirade in The Washington Post entitled, 'Maize Room Onstage for More Than One Genius.' In it she claimed that 'we are cursed with an [...]

For many years, the Chinese-born American artist Shen Wei has lived parallel lives--as a choreographer and as a painter. Though the two have intersected in his own visual design for [...]

The Dance Annual Directory is your must-have guide to resources in the dance world. LookinG for studios in your area? A photographer for your next show? Workshop and intensive opportunities? [...]

Inspiration can come from anywhere, but for choreographers, the body itself is a rich source. Some dancemakers may be drawn to specific physical traits: lanky limbs, an articulate spine, a [...]

It's been a while since Doug Elkins has made a dance without a big story to guide him. In 2006, he affectionately spoofed The Sound of Music with his popular [...]

What happens when one of America's most iconic modern dance companies closes? Six former Cunningham dancers reflect on how the experience led them to where they are today. When the [...]

'Do away with it.' 'Over it.' 'How about just plain old 'artist' or 'choreographer'?' These are a few of the comments that popped up when, on a recent morning, I [...]

A low drumbeat pulses as 13 intensely focused students, arranged in two lines, try to keep up with its rhythm. Arms lash out; hands sculpt the air; legs drop into [...]

For a unique take on the recent spate of dance shows on TV, we asked our contributing editor (and former associate editor) Siobhan Burke to cast her eye on how [...]

FOR A DANCER IN NEW YORK, the chance to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is hard to turn down. But that's what Jennifer Sydor did last fall, when [...]

It's somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m. on a Friday in July, but Michele Byrd-McPhee radiates the fresh, focused energy of a person whose day is just getting started. Clipboard [...]

'I feel like I'm leaving my child!' calls out Dwana Smallwood, as the studio door clicks shut behind her. She feigns a weeping expression--wide eyes glancing backward, lithe arms gesturing [...]

In an episode of the online video series Mondays with Merce, an aging yet ever-youthful Merce Cunningham reminisces about his window-lined studio in the West Village. 'When I used to [...]

Merce Cunningham Dance Company Joyce Theater, NYC March 22-27, 2011 As the Cunningham company approaches its final performance on December 31, should we be getting more nostalgic? Six months from [...]

Sarah Michelson The Kitchen, NYC January 13-22, 2011 There are dances that tell stories, and there are those, like Sarah Michelson's Devotion, that distill familiar ones to an essence, wringing [...]

'How do they do that?' It's the question you ask of your favorite dancers, the ones whose bodies seem to know no limits, who can just toss aside the laws [...]

In the annals of dance history, 2019 may go down as the year Pam Tanowitz got the attention she deserved. In the past six months the New York City-based artist, [...]

When aspiring choreographer Amelia Munro graduates from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts this spring, she'll have spent plenty of hours alone in the studio--exploring, generating, and discarding movement. But [...]

The Brooklyn-based choreographer Gillian Walsh is both obsessed with and deeply conflicted about dance. With her latest work, Fame Notions, May 17-19 at Performance Space New York, she seeks to [...]

What is 'dance theater'? Is it Pina Bausch's raw examinations of everyday life? Is it performance that mixes movement and text? Is it dance that tells a story? Dance Magazine [...]

Some dancers move to New York City with their sights set on a dream job: that one choreographer or company they have to dance for. But when Maggie Cloud graduated [...]

A flock of polyamorous princes, a chorus of queer dying swans, a dominatrix witch: These are a few of the characters that populate the works of Katy Pyle, who, with [...]

When American Ballet Theatre principal Gillian Murphy was looking for a new trainer eight years ago, she called the person every dancer seemed to be talking about: Clarice Marshall. Murphy [...]

'She has nerves of steel. She has absolutely no compunction about standing on one leg for five minutes or taking on a speaking role.' --JANET EILBER Martha Graham said that [...]

After taking a decade off from making dances, New York City-based choreographer/performer Andrea Kleine, 46, made a quiet comeback a couple of years ago. Her 2014 Screening Room ..., wittily [...]

I stood in a circle with 33 strangers, anxiously awaiting my turn. A propulsive playlist--track after track of funk, house, tango, hip-hop, soul--blasted through the cavernous studio. The game was [...]

With spidery limbs and a sprawling imagination, Brooklyn-based Raja Feather Kelly brings a vivid boundlessness to all he does. Whether dancing for the likes of Reggie Wilson or cooking up [...]

The performance artist Ann Liv Young is most notorious as her alter ego Sherry, a platinum-blonde provocateur who lashes out at audiences and gives free therapy (Sherapy) in her roving [...]

Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Park Avenue Armory Event ARTPIX. 279 minutes (3 discs). $60.00. Whether or not you were at the Park Avenue Armory on the eve of 2012, when [...]

Kyle Abraham's, plate is more than full: His new work for Ailey opens Dec. 5, his latest piece for his company Abraham. In. Motion premiered Nov. 1, and he's getting [...]

In 1930, when Ted Shawn acquired a run-down farm in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, he probably never imagined that it would one day be home to an international summer [...]

JIG Screen Media Films. 93 minutes. www.jig-the-film.com. $24.98. The world of competitive Irish dancing lends itself easily to an enter taining documentary. The paraphernalia alone--the curly wigs, glittering dresses, rhinestone-studded [...]

'I'm trying to feel my way into making nothing--into something,' says Bill T. Jones to his dancers, with characteristic conviction, during a stirring scene in the new documentary A Good [...]

Is 'maxi-minimalist' a word? If so, it might perfectly describe Big Dance Theater's newest production, Supernatural Wife, which comes to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Nov. 17-19, and the [...]

Just as Susan Rethorst's dances bristle with a quiet, alert curiosity, so does her teaching. 'I don't use the word 'about,'' she told the small group of students at her [...]

Whether you enjoy the adrenaline rush of auditioning or hate the nerves, our 'Auditions Guide' can help you prepare. Go behind the scenes at auditions for classic and cutting-edge companies, [...]

* Ralph Lemon has been named the next chair of CHIME Across Borders, a choreographic mentorship program of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. The newest of several CHIME initiatives, CHIME [...]