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When Ragamala Dance Company performs Fires of Varanasi, two things stand out: the work's innovative approach to the classical Indian form bharatanatyam and the commanding performances of company co-directors Aparna [...]

Silas Farley tends to stay busy. The former dean of the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at the Colburn School in Los Angeles is now based in Dallas, Texas, where he [...]

SAN FRANCISCO The Carmen premiering at San Francisco Ballet this month won't look or sound the same as usual. Choreographer Arielle Smith (a 2022 '25 to Watch pick) sets the [...]

NEW YORK CITY Ahead of the Great North American Eclipse on April 8, the feath3r theory alights at NYU Skirball to premiere a devised dance theater work about a group [...]

CHICAGO South Chicago Dance Theatre returns to the Auditorium Theatre for an evening filled to the brim with premieres by Donald Byrd, Joshua Blake Carter, Monique Haley, Tsai Hsi Hung, [...]

NEW YORK CITY Nederlands Dans Theater returns to New York City Center for the first time since Emily Molnar took the helm. William Forsythe's N.N.N.N. is joined by a pair [...]

HOUSTON With three 'Bessie' Awards, the Rome Prize, and a sumptuous stage presence, Jasmine Hearn is one of the most acclaimed contemporary dance artists to come out of Houston. But [...]

Bill T. Jones at Harlem Stage NEW YORK CITY Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company revisits Degga, a 1995 collaboration between Jones, Max Roach, and Toni Morrison, as part of Harlem [...]

COSTA MESA, CA American Ballet Theatre presents the North American premiere of Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor's three-act meditation on the writings of Virginia Woolf, at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. [...]

ZURICH Cathy Marston brings her penchant for literary adaptation to Atonement, her first new work as Ballett Zurich's director. In Ian McEwan's novel and Joe Wright's acclaimed film adaptation, teenage [...]

SEATTLE Choreographed and directed by Francesca Harper and performed by dancer Wendy Whelan and poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Carnival of the Animals reframes the Camille Saint-Saens classic to consider the [...]

Watching Eric Best navigate the sensuous curves of Stanton Welch's Tapestry, during Houston Ballet's Jubilee of Dance this December, the dancer's flow and exactitude merged into a seamless whole. His [...]

Maybe even more than most industries, the dance field is obsessed with youth. We fawn over prodigies, we love to predict the next big thing. Yes, Donee Magazine itself is [...]

As we continue to redefine what constitutes a stage, many dancers and choreographers have taken to the great outdoors, a safer alternative during the pandemic. From parking garages to lakes [...]

We might not be able to go out right now, but we can go in. For those of us still stuck taking class at home, it's not a great time [...]

Dark Circles Contemporary Dance kicks off its 10th-anniversary season with the premiere of Ten-Gallon, a dancy dive into queerness and the Western genre. Artistic director Joshua L. Peugh will be [...]

Laura Gutierrez grew up amidst paint cans and brushes, enormous tarps, ladders, and ratchet straps--the materials her father used as a billboard painter. 'The way I know dance, my dad [...]

As a recent guest with chuthis., Miriam Gittens was a study in grace and understated power. She carved out space with exquisite precision and unwavering control as she moved through [...]

Three years ago, Lauren Anderson was contemplating writing her autobiography when acclaimed slam poet Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton contacted her about working on a dance-theater piece about her life. The result, [...]

Collaboration is a curious thing. It can open your practice to another set of eyes. It can allow your work to exist in a larger way. It can add serious [...]

Lauren Anderson's pointe shoes are in the Smithsonian, so it's only fitting that there be a dance-theater piece based on the living legend's storied life. Plumshuga: The Rise of Lauren [...]

The article presents an interview with educator, scholar dancemaker and podcaster Silas Farley about his choreographic project "Four Loves" featuring a commissioned score by Kyle Werner. Topics include a background on his career as a choreographer, his thoughts on collaborating with the Houston Ballet for the project, his starting point for the new ballet, and his description of his studio creation practice.

When Houston Ballet demi soloist Naazir Muhammad soared across the airspace in Balanchines 'Diamonds' last season, the roar of the crowd nearly overwhelmed Tchaikovsky's lush score. His pristine technique and [...]

Although somatic disciplines share a common set of values--internal sensing, increased ease, embodied anatomy, efficient action--the path to achieving all of that can vary wildly. How can you find the [...]

Early in my dance career, I was so focused on learning the craft that I didn't fully understand that a community was building around me. It took a few years [...]

After spending years in the studio honing your ability to express yourself with your body, movement can come to feel like the most natural method of communication. Yet in today's [...]

To kick off 2015, we asked 15 leading choreographers working in the U.S. to choose what they see as the most influential work of the past 15 years. Their selections [...]

When I came back to taking dance classes after a 37-year lapse (which I do not recommend), I returned to ballet. It's the foundation. Right? Gradually I added in contemporary, [...]

Norton Owen, a treasured icon of Jacob's Pillow, has been associated with the festival since 1976. In his current position as director of preservation, he oversees exhibitions, the growing online [...]

Between social media posts of ballerinas balancing on BOSUs and fitness influencers doing push-up challenges, dancers are inundated with new cross-training regimens on a daily basis. There's an endless amount [...]

BODYTRAFFIC isn't the kind of company you expect to find in Los Angeles. Sure, the city has long beer a major dance hub, employing hundreds of dangers for work in [...]

Los Angeles dance maven Lillian Barbeito continues to put older dancers front and center. For the second iteration of the Wisdom Project, which honors dancers ages '40 or better' and [...]

In the early 1930s, three European families migrated to Floreana Island in the Galapagos. Murder and mayhem ensued, making the largely unknown true tale--interwoven with a reimagining of Shakespeare's The [...]

With their crisp and leggy finesse, Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump possess a sizzling kinetic rapport. Collymore, who's performed with Matthew Bourne's New Adventures, and Crump, director of Good Dance [...]

Dance is the way I feel the closest to myself. My brain functions the best when I move; I can really clearly process my thoughts. I don't know why, but [...]

What are the secrets of a long career? All dancers hope to perform for many years, digging deeper into their artistry with each new season. But often, their stage time [...]

THE FORSYTHE COMPANY Brooklyn Academy of Music, Oct. 9-12 William Forsythe considers the traditions of Elizabethan drama in his newest opus, Sider. The audio soundtrack is derived from a 16th-century [...]

Dance companies don't drop from outer space; often they are incubated or hatched from existing troupes. Whether it's the urge to start off on one's own, to create an umbrella [...]

Dancers often think of their fellow performers as family, but in some cases, they literally are family. As Fred and Adele Astaire found out more than a century ago, the [...]

Health practitioners who work with dancers are a dedicated tribe. They love the art and its performers, hoping for long careers, less injury, and years of pain-free dancing. Yet frustrations [...]

Somatics is a fluid movement science. It's in a constant state of growth and assimilation into the dance field, whether it's used as fuel for improvisation or as principles of [...]

Karina Gonzalez stamped her foot, hung upside down on a wooden horse, and transformed from a temper tantrum-throwing girl to an elegant woman before our eyes. Houston audiences gota taste [...]

The fall season's bittersweet tone contains beginnings, endings, and, as always, anniversary celebrations. Classics and new works populate the dancescape, along with a strong showing of international troupes. The Merce [...]

The season of Thanksgiving is a time to remember what you're thankful for. We've all had someone in our lives we've lost, someone of value to us as a person [...]

Andrea Dawn Shelley navigates the controlled adagio of Spencer Gavin Hering's new work Ash with steady precision and understated femininity. No one would know she's struggled with knee pain most [...]

Dance curators do a lot more than program a season. They spot raw talent, develop and shape careers, identify trends and create context around what they are presenting. But what [...]

There's no one right way to score a competition solo. Sure, we can count fouettes--but what about artistry? When every pair of eyes sees the same performance differently, how do [...]

Elaine Gardner's Upper School students pile into a vintage gym turned dance studio with their snow-caked boots, drop their coats, scarves, hats and gloves, put out the barres, and get [...]

After the March lockdown, Charles O. Anderson only spent a moment mourning the canceled tour of his most recent opus, (Recurrent Unrest, before creating a digital version. Described as 'an [...]

The saying goes that if a butterfly flaps its wings in New Zealand, a tornado could occur in Texas. When the butterfly in question, Amy Fote, danced up a storm [...]