Washington may not be a capital when it comes to the art of dance, but a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call the nation’s capital home. This fall, many of these companies get a ...

WE LAY ON our backs on the wood floor, moving our arms and legs the way you would make an angel in the snow, but this was the most specific angel I had ever made. I listened to teacher Bryon Carr, at ...

"Modern Dance 101," a program of rarely seen works by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, regarded as the Mother and Father of American Modern Dance, will be presented September 30-October 3, 2021 at the ...

This holiday season I have the privilege of traveling to New York City to spend three weeks being inspired by different art forms. When in the Big Apple, I usually visit my ballet friends at American ...

This summer, the American Dance Festival celebrates four decades of bringing global modern dance to Durham and Duke University. But ADF’s fortieth anniversary tells only half of its story; the ...

Fans of contemporary and modern dance came out to see the new dance company Enkindle Dance Theatre perform at Sacred Heart Music Center this weekend. Co-directors Jordann Abbe, Ricardo Suarez-Talarico ...

BEIJING Chinese modern dance is enjoying a renaissance thanks to the energy of choreographers and performers who find in it a feeling of liberty rare in an art form often used as a propaganda tool.

The Mojalet Dance Collective is bringing a contemporary modern dance performance to Ramona Town Hall that is reminiscent of entertainment offered there in its heyday. The Jan. 8 performance will ...

Technically speaking, the dance routine was near-perfect. Every jive kick, every side leap, every knee slide had been drilled for hours on end. But Arnel Calvario had an idea that would make it shine.