Justice Dance Performance Project returns to Hartford Stage for the first time since 2019 to perform a new piece that uses ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio— DANCECleveland is bringing four dance performances to Cleveland for its 2025-2026 Performance Series. They range from modern dance pioneers to new choreographic voices. Before the ...

It’s a fact most of us never consider—anyone can dance just about anywhere. The Columbus Modern Dance Company (CoMo Dance) will do just that in LoCoMotion 2025, a bus tour of performances of dance ...

The founder of Texas Christian University’s modern dance program, Jerry Bywaters Cochran, was a proponent of thumbing through fine art books for inspiration — especially ones that featured abstract ...

Jaw-dropping, spectacular dancing! Fascinating and intricate choreography! Diverse music and a program packed with scholarly content and social commentary! Meredith Ventura, choreographer, founder, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China. By Brian ...

Modern dance has always been a vibrant form of artistic expression, evolving by blending movements, rhythms, and traditions from diverse cultures. One significant example is contemporary dance, which ...

When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thanks to government support — and a collaborative spirit among dance companies — the medium is thriving across the country. By David Belcher ...

The experience of exile, whether literal or symbolic, is inevitably reflected in an individual’s body. Feeling cut off from one’s roots, or viewing yourself as a stranger in a foreign land, influences ...

Alvin Ailey is one of the most important choreographers in the history of modern dance. In 1958, at just 27 years old, he founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ailey’s vision was of Black ...

Dancer, choreographer and dance educator Shirley Mordine has died. Her five-decade career in Chicago included founding the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and originating the college’s ...