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Janine N. Beckles, Clifton Brown, Kiyon Ross and Helanius J. Wilkins span generations and geographies. All four have recently transitioned into leadership roles, in dance companies and, for Wilkins, a [...]

The past several years have brought momentous change to the Paul Taylor Dance Company: a new director, a wave of new hires, a pandemic, the naming of a choreographer in [...]

It's the end of a long rehearsal day for the dancers of Abraham.In.Motion. They're reviewing phrases of a new work, Dearest Home. It's a pretty typical rehearsal scene. Some dancers [...]

When principal dancer Robert Fairchild originated the standout role in Spectral Evidence, a 2013 creation by Angelin Preljocaj for New York City Ballet, he fell in love with the French [...]

Endless lines in banks, faulty social services, flooded streets that have you swimming out of your car. In the theaters, burnt-out lighting instruments and floors that are about to cave [...]

When the Rockefeller Foundation approached Linda C. Smith about the possibility of establishing a modern dance company in Salt Lake City, she was stunned. The idea of Rockefeller seed money [...]

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY CITY CENTER, NEW YORK, NY APRIL 6-17, 2005 Martha Graham spent her first 30 years as a choreographer building the repertory that made her famous. She […]

Death Valley Junction is a destination, but it isn't a town, exactly--it's a hotel, a theater shadowed by some adobe houses, and a pair of abandoned buildings standing by the […]

Imagine growing up with dance as a family business. That's what happened to Nan Giordano, who was 'very little' forty years ago when her father, now a legendary teacher, started [...]

If you want excellent advice on how to become a a dancer--and survive as a dancer--Reginald Ray-Savage, 44, will give it to you. The outspoken artistic director of Berkeley, California-based [...]

IF YOU DECIDED TO DO SOME TRES CHIC spring shopping in Paris last April, the first thing you would have seen when you walked into the Left Bank department store [...]

COMPLEXIONS was conceived in 1994 to blend the uniqueness and the diversity of artists of different cultures and races and to celebrate a shared passion for dance. Inspired by social [...]

Several resident companies offer summer programs and ongoing workshops for dancers. The Joffrey Ballet School will offer summer workshops in Flint, MI, and San Antonio, TX, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center will hold its eight-week Summer Intensive Program in New York, NY. Additional training programs held throughout the US are presented., With the coming of summer, New York City will receive an influx of dancers from across the U.S. and around the globe, while many of New York's resident companies will [...]

There's renewed excitement about Hartford Ballet. The company is stirring and starring on several fronts. It is enriching the local cultural scene and becoming a respected national resource; it is [...]

Toronto Dance Theatre repertoire makes no concessions to such trendy theatricalisms as the spoken word, multimedia accoutrements, dancers in Doc Martens, or nudity. Rather, company pieces exhibit consummate choreographic craftsmanship [...]

A mid the majestic saguaros, giant agaves, and natural grandeur of the Grand Canyon State, a ballet company formed by a board of trustees who agreed to disagree eleven years [...]

This collaboration of choreographer Garth Fagan, musician Wynton Marsalis and sculptor Martin Puryear crackles with fiery energy Nothing in the rule books guarantees that a collaboration by three gifted men [...]

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY CITY CENTER NEW YORK, NEW YORK APRIL 14-25, 2004 In the thirteen years since Martha Graham's death, many of us have watched and waited. How would […]

PASCAL RIOULT DANCE THEATRE JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 4-9, 2004 Pascal Rioult has developed a signature style of choreography that, although based on archetypal modern dance, is [...]

Dancers, though passionate about their art form, lack the time and acumen to implement a well-structured business plan. However, a number of dance companies do balance excellent artistry with solid business practices, such as Houston Ballet, which has a US $14.5 million operating budget and US$45 million endowment.

England's Matthew Bourne came up with a winner when he created male swans for his version of Swan Lake in 1995. His company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, became immediately recognized [...]

Joan Myers Brown, founder and artistic director of Philadanco, is fond of noting that her fleet troupe of sixteen dancers sells out everywhere they go, but they have a tough [...]

The purpose of student-led companies may seem obvious: to give college dancers the opportunity to perform with one another, and, in many cases, the chance to choreograph. But they also [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- Professional calamity has followed personal tragedy, as Johannesburg Dance Theatre, one of South Africa's pre-eminent modern companies, has closed its doors, not long after the violent deaths in [...]