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Jeroboam Bozeman and Rennie Harris's careers have wound through street and concert dance. The two shaped the movement in ''Once Again (for the Very First Time).'' A man is falling [...]

Jeroboam Bozeman and Rennie Harris’s careers have wound through street and concert dance. The two shaped the movement in “Once Again (for the Very First Time).” A man is falling [...]

The season brings new works by Kyle Abraham and Helen Pickett, as well as revivals of City Ballet's ''CoppȨlia'' and Bill T. Jones's ''Still/Here.'' The dance world is in a [...]

Sarah McCreanor, or Smac, has attracted millions of followers with her reproductions of the weird-yet-familiar images and memes that shape internet culture. Like comedians, dancers tend to be good imitators. [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Sarah McCreanor, or Smac, has attracted millions of followers with her reproductions of the weird-yet-familiar images and memes that shape internet culture. Like comedians, dancers tend to [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer How does an art of the body affect the mind? 'Epiphany Machine,' a performance that's also a scientific study, paints a picture of the brain on dance [...]

How does an art of the body affect the mind? 'Epiphany Machine,' a performance that's also a scientific study, paints a picture of the brain on dance -- onstage and […]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Shay Latukolan, who has worked with Jungle and Childish Gambino, creates choreography so infectious that everyone thinks they can dance along. Dancers sometimes talk about finding the [...]

Shay Latukolan, who has worked with Jungle and Childish Gambino, creates choreography so infectious that everyone thinks they can dance along. Dancers sometimes talk about finding the pocket -- a [...]

The vampire ballerina in the new movie ''Abigail'' has a long pop culture lineage. She and her sisters are obsessed, tormented and likely to cause harm. ''Ballerina vampire'': It sounds [...]

The vampire ballerina in the new movie “Abigail” has a long pop culture lineage. She and her sisters are obsessed, tormented and likely to cause harm. “Ballerina vampire”: It sounds [...]

The performer stopped dancing after the death of her husband, Stephen Boss. Now she's a judge on ''So You Think You Can Dance,'' the show where they met. When dealing [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer The choreographer, who has spent her career mixing genres and disciplines, comes to ballet with an eye on its sometimes calcified gender relations. 'Islands,' a ballet for [...]

The performer stopped dancing after the death of her husband, Stephen Boss. Now she’s a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance,” the show where they met. When dealing [...]

The choreographer, who has spent her career mixing genres and disciplines, comes to ballet with an eye on its sometimes calcified gender relations. ''Islands,'' a ballet for two women, knits [...]

Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time. If you've watched this year's Oscar-nominated films -- actually, if you've been in a movie theater at [...]

Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time. If you’ve watched this year’s Oscar-nominated films — actually, if you’ve been in a movie theater at [...]

The Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The ''Dancing With the Stars'' judge Derek Hough. The ballet luminaries Catherine Hurlin, Tiler Peck and Taylor Stanley. Eleven cast members of last year's Broadway [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer The Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The 'Dancing With the Stars' judge Derek Hough. The ballet luminaries Catherine Hurlin, Tiler Peck and Taylor Stanley. Eleven cast members of [...]

Not long ago, Akira Armstrong was invited to appear on a new reality dance competition. She was thrilled. The founder and chief executive officer of Pretty Big Movement, a New [...]

Not long ago, Akira Armstrong was invited to appear on a new reality dance competition. She was thrilled. The founder and chief executive officer of https://prettybigmedia.wixsite.com/prettybigmovement, a New York City-based [...]

Hope Boykin radiated generosity and joy as a performer. As a choreographer and director, she is showing the struggle the audience couldn't see. Near the beginning of the new dance-theater [...]

Hope Boykin radiated generosity and joy as a performer. As a choreographer and director, she is showing the struggle the audience couldn’t see. Near the beginning of the new dance-theater [...]

Some dancers have found a niche on TikTok and other platforms imitating video game characters -- moving like a machine's idea of a human. Watch a TikTok video by @dem_bruddaz, [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Some dancers have found a niche on TikTok and other platforms imitating video game characters - moving like a machine's idea of a human. Watch a TikTok [...]

Gaby Diaz, a winner of ''So You Think You Can Dance,'' has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance. Dance polyglots abound in the entertainment industry. [...]

Gaby Diaz, a winner of “So You Think You Can Dance,” has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance. Dance polyglots abound in the entertainment industry. [...]

If you lived through the early 2000s, the phrase ''flash mob'' might arouse a vague feeling of dread. The seemingly spontaneous gatherings, often involving some kind of performance, began as [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer If you lived through the early 2000s, the phrase 'flash mob' might arouse a vague feeling of dread. The seemingly spontaneous gatherings, often involving some kind of [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer When TikTok flew a group of its stars to Washington last month, it seemed inevitable that they would end up dancing. How else to protest a potential [...]

When TikTok flew a group of its stars to Washington last month, it seemed inevitable that they would end up dancing. How else to protest a potential ban on what's [...]

Several nonprofit dance groups have embraced collective leadership. ''Dancing together taught us more about leading together,'' said a co-director of Bridge Live Arts. At the end of January, three dancers [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Several nonprofit dance groups have embraced collective leadership. 'Dancing together taught us more about leading together,' said a co-director of Bridge Live Arts. At the end of [...]

In the movie ''M3GAN,'' a robot doll's sinister virtuosity plays on the mixture of amusement and deep unease that dancing robots often provoke. M3GAN isn't a born mover. The robot [...]

''Spirited,'' a revisionist ''Christmas Carol,'' leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha Nichols. The trailer for ''Spirited'' arrives feet first. Two [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer 'Spirited,' a revisionist 'Christmas Carol,' leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha Nichols. The trailer for 'Spirited' arrives [...]

For the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation. Two dancers are suspended high above the stage, shadowy light glinting off the [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer For the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation. Two dancers are suspended high above the stage, shadowy light [...]

Abdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance. On a humid weekday evening last month, as shade [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Abdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance. On a humid weekday evening last [...]

''Dancing With Myself,'' on NBC, shows the deep influence of the dance challenge on popular culture, even as its hold on TikTok has loosened. Even by the razzle-dazzle standards of [...]

TikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: This collegiate summer league team has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment. How does a dance writer from the Northeast end [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer TikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: This collegiate summer league team has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment. How does a dance writer from [...]

Byline: Margaret Fuhrer Ashton Edwards, an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet's rigid gender roles. Ashton Edwards's ballet dreams [...]

Ashton Edwards, an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet's rigid gender roles. Ashton Edwards's ballet dreams were dashed at [...]