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The performance portion of ''Edges of Ailey'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition. Dancers, vibrantly attired and nearly floating, skipped across [...]

The Cuban company's program at the Joyce Theater includes three U.S. premieres. This is the 10th season that Malpaso Dance Company, the Cuban contemporary dance troupe based in Havana and […]

In Milan, arty dance routines seemed more prevalent than runway shows, as fashion houses aimed to give their audiences something -- anything -- to Instagram about. The models were dancing. [...]

Trucks, buses and cars rumbled overhead, drowning out Marcus Azevedo's voice. In the distance, sirens blared and exhaust pipes backfired. From under a highway overpass, Mr. Azevedo, a dance teacher, [...]

Curtis Small took his place in front of the video camera as an ethereal portrait of his son K'Sean lit a screen on the wall behind him. He was flanked [...]

It was a sign of her generosity that her program this weekend was almost all work by her associates. Camille A. Brown is not a choreographer lacking in opportunities to [...]

River to River Festival presents an art experiment in which audience members and dance artists, paired randomly, meet for one-on-one performances. ''Can I fall in love with a stranger?'' the [...]

The Nutbush, set to its eponymous song and sometimes considered an unofficial national dance, is popular with all ages and has taken on special significance after the singer's death. As [...]

The composers and choreographer explain how they created the propulsive sequence that is nominated for best song. ''Not salsa, not flamenco, my brother. Do you know ... naatu?'' This friendly [...]

Jenna Ortega's dance for her Addams Family character is a viral sensation, but why? It is disarming and defiant: the dance of a nonconformist. What is it about the Wednesday [...]

A solitary ballerina, a sidewalk vocabulary lesson and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary. Columbus Circle Dear Diary: I often pass though the plaza [...]

The budding choreographer Paul Taylor, who would one day become a giant of American modern dance, put on a full evening of original works in October 1957. He was 27, [...]

Live audiences return for a new platform at Danspace Project featuring Mayfield Brooks, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Iele Paloumpis and Ogemdi Ude. How does dance persist in trying times? [...]

This edition resembles past ones, with an international miscellany of approaches to the question of what filmed dance can be. This weekend the Dance on Camera festival returns to Lincoln [...]

Rachel Saltz is the dance editor on the Culture desk. She is looking forward to New York City Ballet's winter season, but in the meantime she watches too much TV [...]

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. Expressing Herself ''I hope I have disturbed your peace,'' a chatty, [...]

These artists doubted Virgin Voyages would want what they had to offer. But their show, part revue, part night out at a club, is about to set sail. On a [...]

Rain interfered with Dorrance Dance's evening program, but the ensemble's matinee was a playful, inviting reintroduction to the festival. BECKET, Mass. -- Over the past year and a half, the [...]

On a recent afternoon in a brightly lit studio in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O'Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video. They were recording a cover version of ''Midnight Train [...]

This year's La MaMa Moves! adds up to a picture of the moment: a little provisional, with flashes of promise. A new year is underway, and theaters remain closed in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''Let's hear it for Congress!'' That's not a phrase you expect to hear these days, especially not during a music and dance concert celebrating the immigrant cultures of New [...]

Every year, it seems, the BEAT Festival expands to encompass a larger swath of Brooklyn. The third edition of this 10-day, mostly outdoor extravaganza (the name stands for Brooklyn Emerging [...]

A FEW years ago, more or less out of the blue, I began to take my daughter, Hattie, to dance performances. She'd turned 12, and we seemed to be losing [...]

As with so many dance companies, Ailey II, the junior ensemble of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, exhilarates and disappoints at the same time. The dancers are tremendous. The choreography, [...]

A choreographer needs a dancer the way a dancer needs a choreographer. It's an even swap. Carolyn Adams, who danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1965 to 1982, [...]

The last 12 months have brought a fine harvest of new choreography. My Top 10 consists solely of works new either to me or altogether. 1. 'Unfinished Business' Richard Alston's [...]

BANGKOK -- It may be the strangest rendition of traditional dance in Thailand, a one-woman show that opens with showers of flower petals and ends in a crude duet with [...]

The organizers of the Bessie Awards, as the annual New York Dance and Performance Awards are known, on Wednesday announced 40 nominees in several categories. Established in 1983, the awards [...]

[Video: Watch on Youtube.] Michelle Obama may have drawn some criticism, especially in conservative circles, for showing up a week ago to hand out the Best Picture award at the [...]

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Much like the 30-something who stumbles upon old pictures of bar mitzvah parties where the Electric Slide was featured, over and over, the former Atlanta Falcons [...]

THE members of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater aren't interchangeable, but some rise to the top faster than others. The elegant Jacqueline Green is everywhere this season, dancing lead roles [...]

THE links among dance, geography and social anthropology are complex and profound. Sooner or later much -- by no means all -- of the world's best dance comes to New [...]

MEMPHIS -- This city, so central to the emergence of blues, soul and rock 'n' roll, in recent decades has developed a new kind of virtuoso dancing: jookin. Sometime between [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''THE unending search for love,'' ''movement as a weapon,'' ''wonder,'' ''love of the earth,'' ''yearning,'' ''grief.'' These are some of the words and phrases that Pina Bausch told her [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Ordinarily, a star turn on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' teaching Britney Spears his dance might be one of the surest signs that a performer has made [...]

VAIL, Colo. -- Each year a central feature of the two-week Vail International Dance Festival, high in the Rockies, is its two consecutive International Evenings of Dance. Organized and introduced [...]

I COME from a family that loves dancing. When I was in high school my mother decided I should learn to dance, so she bought me ballroom dance lessons as [...]

Maria Seragou, a credit broker at Phoenix Partners Group, spends hours every day analyzing figures, firming up her positions, and trying to avoid tripping up her partners. Then she goes [...]

For the 24th year, the Commonwealth Vintage Dances took place in early August. This year's gathering was on the campus of Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Enthusiasts of period [...]

Let's be pessimistic. Let's say that when the Merce Cunningham Dance Company shuts down after Dec. 31, his choreography will very seldom be seen again. What will have left the [...]

DANCER is probably not the first word that comes to mind when describing John Leguizamo. But that could change after watching this versatile actor and provocative writer's performance in ''Ghetto [...]

Some twirled and two-stepped with finesse, others bumbled across the dance floor like awkward teenagers at a high school formal. Still others spun with seeming aplomb - right before thwacking [...]

On the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death nearly everyone whose lives he had touched was heard from: his family and friends, his fellow musicians and even Bubbles the chimpanzee. [...]

ON a recent dank and wintry Wednesday evening in Paris, couples jostled for every inch of an overcrowded dance floor at Bizz'Art, a dining and dancing club on the fringes [...]

Throughout his career the San Francisco choreographer Michael Smuin was an eclectic who created ballets in many styles on many themes. The versatility of Mr. Smuin, who died at 68 […]