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On the way to my mom's midtown apartment in New York City, I think about how funny it is that I'm going to interview her. There's always been this discrepancy [...]

I am deeply, madly, in love with movement. It is one of the great loves of my life, it is my heart. The very unromantic reason why I dance is [...]

Dancing with the one you love--isn't that everyone's dream? Our Valentine special brings you three couples who have made a lifelong commitment to each other, as well as to a [...]

Julie Tice Paul Taylor Dance Company Interviewed by Susan Yung My favorite is the role I do in Esplanade. It's like the epitome of joy. There's nothing like the sensation [...]

When AXIS Dance Company got a call to perform on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' artistic director Judith Smith's reaction was mixed. 'It was short notice, we needed to [...]

What were your favorite performances of the year? Our team of editors and writers nominated the best shows we saw in 2016. But you had the final vote--here's what moved [...]

At one performance of David Parker's Nut/Cracked in 2005, three-quarters of his audience walked out prematurely. But the same moment that caused the offense--a duet between two men with their [...]

These excerpts from Dance Magazine retain their original spelling and punctuation. 1985 FEBRUARY--Katherine Healy, the fifteen-year-old American dancer who won a gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in [...]

My mother passed away during this past ABT Met Season. It spurred changes in me and my art that I could not have foreseen. I used to tell people that [...]

The reasons why I dance constantly shift and change. Sometimes gradually, sometimes all of a sudden. Sometimes the same reasons are all there, but their value changes from one day [...]

At a young age, without any connections to the ballet world, I told my mom that I was going to be a ballerina. Growing up, I would put on classical [...]

If you imagine the notes on a sheet of music, they fly up and down across the bars. In a sense, that is the physical effect that music has on [...]

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 [...]

It's not easy snagging a front-row bike in one of Ruth Zukerman's indoor cycling classes at NYC's elite Flywheel Sports. After 15 years in the industry, Zukerman has a devoted [...]

A mentor of mine described dance as a rather self-centered profession: We have a small window of time to perform, so we are forced to focus on our craft intensely. [...]

My first dance experience was at age 4 in an expressive, flowing Isadora Duncan class. I began training in several techniques, and by 11, I knew dance would be my [...]

The first time I danced kuchipudi, it was like I'd been bit. I became mad, and there was nothing else I wanted to do. My mother had taken me to [...]

Last April, over 3,000 people assembled at the 15th annual Bhangra Blowout in Washington, DC, to witness America's top college bhangra teams compete. Eager crowds watched as dancers wove through [...]

Why do I dance? I have to--I need to. To heal. To feel. My mom was ill (MS). I danced, at times frantically, to encourage her to take a step. [...]

ODC dancer I sat recently in the former prison library on Alcatraz Island. A man carrying a champagne flute and a smartphone walked down the adjacent corridor and called through [...]

Lyrical and warm, Dance Theatre of Harlem's Ashley Murphy has been an audience favorite since the start of her career. After training at Shreveport's Carol Anglin Dancenter, and also at [...]

'If it's in your veins to dance then you will, regardless of any remuneration.'--Melissa Lanham 'I can hardly live with what I make, but I'm still struggling and dancing!'--Flo Pytala [...]

Born in Colorado Springs, Cincinnati Ballet corps member James Cunningham spent his younger years with the Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company in West Virginia. He later attended the University of Cincinnati's [...]

Craig Salstein sends out a blast of energy onstage, whether he's tackling the technically demanding role of Bronze Idol in La Bayadere or the hilarious tractor driver of Ratmansky's Bright [...]

A dancer who exudes vitality, Pacific Northwest Ballet's Laura Gilbreath can be commanding or delicate onstage, as the role requires. She grew up in Hammond, LA, and began her training [...]

Like many dancers, I was reported to be dancing in the womb. That dancing continued through my entrance into the world and until this moment. For me, dance is like [...]

Vulnerable yet driven in her passion, Elena Lobsa nova made a heartbreaking Juliet in Alexei Ratmanstzy's new Romeo and Juliet for National Ballet of Canada last fall. She and her [...]

Stephen Petronio's limb-flinging, inside-out choreography can take your breath away. In the early 1990s, his men sometimes wore corsets and his women drove through space like cannonballs, giving his work [...]

Oregon Ballet Theatre soloist Candace Bouchard is an elegant, meticulous, and versatile dancer. She savors the challenge of highly technical roles, such as Dewdrop in Balanchine's Nutcracker, while also welcoming [...]

'But the jewel of West Side Story, from which all its beauties seem to depend, is the basic conception by Jerome Robbins: a grimy big-city love-and-killing young people's story told [...]

'I just kept listening to life and allowing that to guide me to the next thing,' says Christina Johnson, who has recently shifted gears after a professional dance career that [...]

A soft, velvety quality distinguishes the dancing of Yen Peters, who has been a member of Jennifer Muller/The Works since 2007. Onstage, she projects an openness and kindness that Muller [...]

I loved your recent talk at the Healthy Body Workshop at Steps on Broadway. It was inspiring to hear you say that my body image could improve if I stopped [...]

Anna Schon is a tiny dancer with a bold presence. In Reggie Wilson's The Good Dance at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009 (above), she brought an almost irreverent abandon [...]

Perhaps the only dancer whose star power spans Broadway, films, and TV, Bebe Neuwirth is always fun to watch. Sensual and precise, she exudes an elegant, teasing sexuality without losing [...]

Making its Canadian premiere at Toronto's Luminato Festival is Two Faced Bastard, an inventive and hilarious piece by Chunky Move, Australia's genre-defying dance-theater company. Choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy [...]

With her long neck, sweet face, and elegant bearing, Pennsylvania Ballet's Julie Diana is the Audrey Hepburn of ballet. Articulate and generous in contemporary roles, she can be positively dreamy [...]

Rosalynde LeBlanc is the kind of modern dancer who keeps audiences on the edge of their seats. Her bold movement and daring leaps make her a force to be reckoned [...]

Postmodern dance legend Anna Halprin's Parades and Changes made waves at its 1965 NYC premiere when it was banned for nudity. French choreographer Anne Collod has re-created the controversial work [...]

I have always needed to dance; my life has never been without it. I've been a practitioner of the art form since nearly the day I could walk. My mother [...]

With an Emerald-City-meets-Star-Wars sensibility, the Ballet National de Marseille's thrilling production of Metapolis II comes to the Lincoln Center Festival this month. A collaboration between artistic director Frederic Flamand (the [...]

Ten years after East Germany collapsed, Uwe Scholz has succeeded in putting Leipzig Ballet on a firm footing. When German choreographer Uwe Scholz accepted the artistic directorship of Leipzig Ballet [...]

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky--The heroine of Louisville Ballet's January world premiere is neither a princess under an evil spell nor a star-crossed lover. Instead, she is a primate that lived millions of [...]

NEW YORK CITY--For choreographer-dancer Kevin Wynn, the stage door to the Joyce Theater has just swung open. Wynn isn't the only choreographer slipping through in January, however. Sean Curran [See [...]