Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Fans of college dance teams are eagerly anticipating the rematch in Division 1A between the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University at this year’s UDA Nationals. Last year, U of M took first in Division 1A Pom and OSU took...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Royal Albert Hall, London A clown’s funeral procession is the pretext for some of the most skilled performers in the business to swoop, float and fly through the air There’s a procession passing through the Royal Albert Hall. It’s a...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Looking for something to do in New York? Explore the percussive side of saxophones with PRISM Quartet and Miguel Zenón or introduce the kids to “The Iron Giant.”Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Dance Spirit
If you’re a dancer who uses social media, you’ve almost certainly seen videos counting down to the 2025 “dance Super Bowl.” For those of you who aren’t familiar, these videos are referring to UDA Nationals, a competition marking the end...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday featured thrilling works by Angie Pittman (“Black Life Chord Changes”) and Kyle Marshall (“Joan”).Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Highlights so far of the 2025 contemporary dance festival, spread across New York City, are Symara Sarai and Leslie Cuyjet’s outstanding dances.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Miguel Gutierrez’s “Super Nothing” at New York Live Arts asks how dance can confront the steady stream of life’s troubles.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London Youthful ambition and vision always charge the atmosphere with optimism at this festival of future dance talent For 35 years The Place has been offering up an abundance of brand new choreography at its annual Resolution...Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
East Bank, Stratford, London Built in Italian red brick by acclaimed Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, Sadler’s Wells’s vibrant new sister theatre provides six dance studios, elegant auditorium – and a big welcome to all There’s an idea...Sunday, January 12, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
A clammy revenge thriller set within the fitness industry; the story of modern dance’s pioneering women; and a quest for an enigmatic wartime heroine Emma Healey Hutchinson Heinemann , £16.99, pp400 To order S weat , Wild Grace or In...Saturday, January 11, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new album Maria Out now Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, the same writer-director team behind the Diana, Princess...Friday, January 10, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri ring in the New Year in their physical and introspective “Many Happy Returns.”Friday, January 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Performer and choreographer who fused ballet with South African contemporary dance styles More than a profession, dance was a calling and an innate need for the South African performer and choreographer Dada Masilo. “I’m very miserable...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Music, dance, theatre and even magic on offer, as Dynamo plans ‘Bradford’s equivalent of Olympic opening ceremony’ ‘The scale is blowing my mind’: Bradford ready to shift perceptions as city of culture As Bradford prepares to kick off...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from NYT > Dance
At the Joyce Theater, Ragamala Dance presents “Children of Dharma,” an elegant production that lacks dramatic pop.Thursday, January 9, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, announced her 10-year struggle on Instagram. She tested out her new hearing aids in “The Nutcracker.”Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
This year sees the city celebrate its rich, diverse creativity. Magician Dynamo, AKA Steven Frayne, and director Kirsty Housley discuss collaborating to shine a light on the arts of their home city – and offer hints on what to expect...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Where is the dance field headed next? The dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies on Dance Magazine‘s annual “25 to Watch” list offer heartening, imaginative, exciting possible answers to that question. Whether or not...Monday, January 6, 2025 from NYT > Dance
651 Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André Zachery’s “Against Gravity.”Monday, January 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Welsh dancer turned down her first chance to appear on Strictly – then illness and injury twice took her off TV. She talks about her new tour, her best friend Carlos Gu and her ‘completely new upper body’ Amy Dowden’s motto is...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from NYT > Dance
A South African dancer and choreographer, she was known as a fearless creative force who brought African dance styles to traditional pieces like “Swan Lake.”Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The theatre director on the best novel she’s read in a long time, Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, exercising in the dark, and a Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant The theatre director Rebecca Frecknall grew up in Cambridgeshire and...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year American auteurs return Continue reading...Saturday, January 4, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The classic 1922 exsanguination enthusiast gets a creepy 2024 makeover, and there’s a new supercop in town in Channel 4’s crime drama Nosferatu Out now Director Robert Eggers has been carving out a niche for himself in the shadows for...Friday, January 3, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells’ new purpose-built space is a reflection of the booming popularity of the art form in the capital. But is all this success representative of the country as a whole? And if not, why not? It’s time for some good news. The...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The dancer and his husband on meeting at a beach bar in Spain, the stresses of working together, and who is the teenager in the relationship Born in Plymouth in 1948, Wayne Sleep is a dancer and media personality. At 12, he won...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Yngvild Aspeli, whose staging of the Melville novel forms the centrepiece of this year’s MimeLondon festival, explains the eerie magic of her craft It is unnerving to be taken backstage after a show only to find yourself stepping over...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from NYT > Dance
One of Denmark’s greatest ballerinas, she toured widely — in London, Moscow and New York — and played a version of herself in a Disney TV production.The kindness of strangers: when my cat died, my dance class pooled their money for a thoughtful gift
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
I barely knew the people from my reggaeton class yet they went above and beyond any social protocol for a casual acquaintance’s deceased furball Read more in the kindness of strangers series More summer essentials My dance school had a...Wednesday, January 1, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights He played the Bard on Horrible Histories (“they call me Billy Whizz!”) and in the 2015 film Bill. But it...Tuesday, December 31, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
South African dancer and choreographer died unexpectedly after a brief illness, her family says The dance world is mourning the internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo, who died in hospital at the...Monday, December 30, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
A cherished ritual | Raving in a Labour era | Addressing accent prejudice | Surprise for Stobbie | The meaning of Olympiad Indeed the shipping forecast is “a cherished ritual that distils the essence of Radio 4” ( Tidy! Ruth Jones to...Monday, December 30, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Most dancers who participate in competitions and conventions attend with a dance studio. But each year, a small group of soloists opt to go for it as independents, without a studio affiliation. There are plenty of benefits to this...Sunday, December 29, 2024 from NYT > Dance
She was The New Yorker’s first dance critic. Her wit could be devastating but behind it was a belief in beauty.Saturday, December 28, 2024 from Dance | The Guardian
Spotify’s end-of-year summary (other streaming services are available, of course) is our chance to show off how much cool stuff we listened to this year. So what do the stars’ top track lists look like? And what were their guilty...Friday, December 27, 2024 from Dance Spirit
When Crystal Nicholls was a dancer in The Lion King on London’s West End, she noticed herself feeling more irritable and unhappy during the fall and winter months. Simultaneously, she was dancing more than usual because of...Monday, December 23, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Kathryn Lewek has made a specialty of singing the showstopping role in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” “It’s my security blanket,” she said.Monday, December 23, 2024 from NYT > Dance
A wave of viral videos highlight a style that participants call addictive and innovative. Descended from the Lindy Hop, it has few traditional markers of swing.Friday, December 20, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Did your family Thanksgiving celebration include a trio of grandmas dancing to Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”? A solo act of a vampire rocking out to Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”? If not, you may want to get your hands on a...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from NYT > Dance
The New York dance instructor Angela Trimbur, known for her high-fun vibes, shares easy choreography for the season’s festive — and socially challenging — occasions.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo opens its season at the Joyce Theater with its vintage, vampiric “Giselle” and a new take on Balanchine.Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from NYT > Dance
Writing for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.Friday, December 13, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Karmen Moore had always dreamed of joining the Radio City Rockettes. But while completing her degree in dance performance at Southern Methodist University in 2023, she mainly focused on auditioning for contemporary and modern companies....Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from Dance Spirit
If Devan Aischa Smith could describe working on pop star Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour in one word, it would be “evolutionary.” As dance captain, she transformed alongside the show, learning and teaching new choreography as the...Monday, December 2, 2024 from Dance Spirit
Just a few years after his graduation from the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California, Jakevis Thomason booked the dream gig for many a commercial dancemaker: choreographing for Beyoncé. After...ShanDien Sonwai LaRance Carries On Native American Tradition, Culture, and Legacy Through Hoop Dance
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from Dance Spirit
At age 8, ShanDien Sonwai LaRance’s father made it a point for her and her two brothers to train together every day at a recreation center in Flagstaff, Arizona. Different-colored hoops sprinkled the floor as the LaRance children...