Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from NYT > Dance
In cotillions in Austin, tweens are building confidence on the dance floor and at the dining table through evolving traditions.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Jordan Roth owned five Broadway theaters and produced a string of hits. Now he’s pivoting to performance.Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Dance Spirit
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A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and ‘Queen’ Lear It’s billed as a play not a musical but Stereophonic, the US hit now in London , has some of the best new songs played on a West End...Monday, June 30, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The latest work by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz combines music and design in fresh and delightfully unpredictable ways.Monday, June 30, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Hunting bows in hand, a new generation of dancers takes on the multifaceted role at American Ballet Theater.Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The choreographer on a treasured biscuit tin, the Biba dress she splashed out on and a late-night police chase Born in Lancashire, Arlene Phillips, 82, created the dance group Hot Gossip in the 1970s. She went on to become a...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Brad Pitt goes racing in the Top Gun: Maverick director’s latest, while Rachel Zegler makes her West End debut as Eva Perón M3gan 2.0 Out now Hitting the sweet spot between camp value and genuine entertainment that’s often surprisingly...Friday, June 27, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Royal Ballet first artist Amelia Townsend steps into some percussive new shoes this month as the tap-dancing Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon’s fantastical Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, performed by The Royal Ballet...Friday, June 27, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The sunny 15-year-old dancer-turned-actress is about as far as you can get from the role she’s best known for: a deadly A.I. doll.Friday, June 27, 2025 from Dance Spirit
To Aidan Carberry, choreographing is not just his livelihood, but a game to be played and a puzzle to be solved. Growing up in Los Angeles, Carberry trained at Debbie Allen School of Dance before continuing at the Los Angeles County High...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The international dance, music and art festival takes place at the Central Hall Westminster in London Continue reading...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from NYT > Dance
Tanowitz’s new dance, made with the painter Sarah Crowner and the composer Caroline Shaw, premieres at the Fisher Center at Bard College.Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots The Quebec company We All Fall Down got good word-of-mouth at last year’s fringe with their show Papillon. This year...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells, London Pete Townshend’s tragic story of teenage angst returns to the stage in a visceral dance production full of the original’s swagger and bravado The Quadrophenia era might be 60 years old, but some things about being...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The first Powerhouse: International will feature works from South Africa’s William Kentridge, Brazil’s Carolina Bianchi — and 10,000, $30 tickets.Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Sadler’s Wells East, London Circling between quiet sparse scenes and amazing bursts of movement, this is an intense hour from an artist really hitting his stride Sometimes choreographers use darkness to hide. Gloomy lighting,...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from NYT > Dance
The Russian ballerina Olga Smirnova lit up the start of the company’s six-week summer season. She wasn’t alone.Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
New Hampshire residents pushed back, but lawmakers still plan to decimate the group, which gives grants to theaters and museums.Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from NYT > Dance
For 50 years, Norton Owen has connected the past and present at the influential summer festival in the Berkshires.Monday, June 23, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Why is a huge pack of puppet animals, from tiny monkeys to towering elephants, making a 20,000km cross-planet odyssey? As The Herds nears the UK, our writer spends a week as an antelope to find out Wide-eyed, a child peers at the...Saturday, June 21, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
A boy becomes an interstellar ambassador in Pixar’s latest animated caper, and the soul-pop legend is coming up across the UK on her new tour Elio Out now In this new Pixar animation, the eponymous Elio, a young orphan, is accidentally...Friday, June 20, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation “I can’t believe that...Thursday, June 19, 2025 from NYT > Dance
At the Joyce Theater through Sunday, the Paul Taylor Dance Company revives two half-lost works from the 1960s, traversing matters both sacred and profane.‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott
Monday, June 9, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London One of the “most English of ballets” will be performed for the first time at the National...Sunday, June 8, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
Lazzaretto Vecchio, Venice On the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritualised tyranny There are strong Death in...Saturday, June 7, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
A ballerina-assassin stalks a spin-off from John Wick, while Jarvis’s wry Britpop greats pick up from where they left off 24 years ago Ballerina Out now Ana de Armas (Knives Out, Blonde) stars in this literal spin-off of John Wick,...Friday, June 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Channel Islands were dubbed ‘the witch-hunting capital of Atlantic Europe’. Just talking to a cat could get you hanged, strangled or burned. We go behind the scenes of an outdoor dance triple-bill at an ancient burial site Mont...Friday, June 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
The Place, London The Yorkshire-born dance artist concludes his social historical trilogy on the Thatcher era by celebrating resistance to homophobia Gary Clarke grew up in a Yorkshire mining village in the 1980s and 90s, and the scars...Friday, June 6, 2025 from Dance | The Guardian
At 78, the great choreographer is enjoying a career-spanning celebration in Oslo. He reflects on his leap from dance to visual art and why he feels snubbed by Britain A gang of young dancers, their black costumes offset by colourful...Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Dance Spirit
I’ve never known a version of myself without dance. I was born and raised in the immersive environment of a dance school for bharatanatyam (a form of Indian classical dance) that my parents founded in Los Angeles before I was born. My...Thursday, May 22, 2025 from Dance Spirit
This season, performer and choreographer Tilly Evans-Krueger is pulling double duty on Broadway. Most nights, while she performs the role of Ace in The Outsiders, her choreography is being performed down the street by the likes of...Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from Dance Spirit
At 16, Eileen Kim faced a life-changing decision: Stay home to finish high school in Chicago or move to Washington D.C. to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. After spending the summer at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in...Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Imagine traveling to beautiful destinations, making lifelong friends from all over the world, and performing high-energy shows for packed audiences. Working on a ship, it’s all part of a regular day in the office. As a production dancer...Thursday, May 8, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Have you ever had the urge to whip out a turn sequence in a grocery store? Or leap through an empty cereal aisle with abandon? 20-year-old Natalie Sterling feels that way too. A Trader Joe’s team member, she’s built a social media...Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from Dance Spirit
What does it take to move across the world, dance in Paris at the Moulin Rouge, become a content creator, and start a small business? Allie Goodbun can tell you, and if you follow her on social media, she probably already has. The...Thursday, April 24, 2025 from Dance Spirit
The study of tap takes many different forms across college campuses. Some schools have multilevel programs with full-time faculty, while others are known for their student-run groups and showcases. Whether the goal is to pursue tap...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions started as a dream: A dream to share the fresh, new training techniques and material being taught in major cities like Los Angeles and New York with dance students throughout the...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Jenn Edwards has crafted a multifaceted career: She performs with Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company, dances, teaches, and choreographs for gymnasts and dancers, and plays in a band. Though her breadth of work is impressive,...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Over the weekend, college dance teams from around the country gathered in Daytona, FL, to attend the National Dance Association’s 2025 College National Championships. And this year, for the first time, division winners competed in a...Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from Dance Spirit
With the excitement of January’s Universal Dance Association (UDA) College Nationals dying down, dancers won’t have to wait long for their next obsession: National Dance Alliance (NDA) College Nationals are just around the corner. This...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Dance Spirit
With football season officially over, most of the world won’t be thinking about the gridiron until the leaves start to turn again. But there is one group of people who are ramping up for weeks of competition with their eyes on the...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Radha Varadan’s ingenious reimaginings of some of ballet’s most famous variations using kathak, a form of Indian classical dance, have earned her serious traction online. Based in India and the U.S., Varadan trained...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Competition dance trends become popular for a reason, but even the most exciting fads eventually run their course. Four competition judges discuss the dance trends they believe it’s time to leave behind, and offer suggestions on how to...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Dance Spirit
At age 11, Adam Vesperman was ushered into an impromptu audition for Billy Elliot: The Musical at a West Coast Dance Explosion Nationals. Despite an off-key rendition of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” his strong dancing skills secured...Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from Dance Spirit
As a young child, I was enrolled in dance class by my mother, along with my three older sisters, no doubt in an effort to create some peace in her life. Little did she know that she was creating a space for a shy, seemingly invisible...Monday, March 17, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Maycee Steele is never far from the for-you page. From her creation of the mega-popular “Cuff It” dance challenge with Kaitlyn Hardy in 2022 to her presence as a backup dancer in Tate McRae’s always-trending tour choreography, she has a...Wednesday, March 12, 2025 from Dance Spirit
The first time Jessica Tong auditioned for Hubbard Street’s second company, she made it to the end of the call but didn’t get the job. The next time she auditioned, six months later, she also didn’t get the job, but she did get a note...Tuesday, March 4, 2025 from Dance Spirit
Since finishing in the Top 8 of “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 18, Braylon Browner has continued to carve out a dynamic presence both on and off the stage. Currently a sophomore at University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman...