Tuesday, March 21, 2017
When you’re wrapped up in the craziness that is dance competition, you sometimes forget to look around and appreciate all of the lessons you are learning. Dance competitions can teach us a…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:57PMMonday, March 20, 2017
LoftOpera is a feisty little company that operates around Brooklyn, especially Bushwick. They are giving" Otello" in LightSpace Studios, a disco on Flushing Avenue about the size of a high s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:27PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 4, 2017. Successfully creating and presenting art involves striking several important balances. One of them is cohesiveness, yet variety that …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:11PMJeff Talbott’s latest play, i, will get its world premiere in the 2017-18 season of Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. The resident Equity company first developed the drama —…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:48PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
In Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, she imagines a world where a theatrical troupe called The Travelling Symphony travels the country, performing Shakespeare after a pla…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 6, 2017
It is the brutal irony of dance that with years of experience comes both wisdom and degeneration of the body. Older dancers often mourn their loss of balance, flexibility, agility and streng…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:56PMIf I were to propose a new documentary reality show, it would be called “Life on a Broadway Tour”! Tour life is unlike any other performing gig. You’re constantly on the move �…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:26PMI loved going to summer intensives. Starting my freshman year of high school, I was able to go to one or two programs every summer and vastly expand my skills as a young dancer. Because of m…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:21PMSteps on Broadway, NYC’s legendary professional dance center committed to training and maintaining the integrity of the art form, increases its global reach with a first-time national and …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:10PMTony Award-winning Center Theatre Group enters its second half-century at The Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles with the 2017-18 Season curated by Artistic Directo…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:06PMDisney’s classic story of The Little Mermaid is back on stage. Revived by The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle late last year, the production has since launched its North American Tour, b…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:04PMIf “getting fit” was one of your New Year’s resolutions, it’s not too late to up the ante! Joining a gym can seem intimidating or expensive. But in this day and age, you have some of…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:01PMBased in Atlanta, Georgia, Full Radius Dance is a widely renowned physically integrated company. The 2017 season marks the company’s 25th anniversary of creating artistic modern dance work…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:36PM“It took me far longer then it should have to realize how much of an effect lack of sleep was having on my performance in dance, and later in the classroom,” says Sara Beery, former pro…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:29PMOne of the initiatives currently being promoted by the National Dance Week Foundation (NDWF) is its “A Chance To Dance” Scholarships. The foundation, which has been bringing greater reco…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:55PMFriday, March 3, 2017
Dance St. Louis’ annual production of nationally renowned choreographers collaborating with local professional dance companies to create and perform a collection of world premieres returns…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 12:02AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. February 23, 2017. Post-modern art grew from socio-political shifts of post-World War II western society. Some claim that with the enormity of th…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 12:33PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Two-and-a-half years ago, Dance Informa spoke with (then) up-and-coming convention teacher and choreographer Andrew Winghart about his process and future goals. Since then, Winghart won Fir…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:53PMWith all the traffic and classes going on, it’s a wonder that dance floor maintenance isn’t a full-time job. In some cases, it is! In spite of a great amount of time and materials, it is…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 12:59AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Dancer Theresa Ruth Howard recently announced the launch of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet), a groundbreaking legacy project documenting and transforming conversations around black b…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:32PMThursday, February 23, 2017
The tradition of classic film dance — of Fred and Ginger, of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse — can seem like something of the past. It can feel like the dance of today’s Hollywood …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:14AM“What, really, is art?” seems to be a never-ending question, one that no one has been able to answer concisely and matter-of-factly. Perhaps that’s a good thing. But do we also ask wha…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:42AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Saturday, February 11, 2017. Something that’s truly beautiful about the art of dance is that it doesn’t have to be one thing. The possibili…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:29PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. February 4, 2017. “What goes around, comes around,” the old saying goes. We often say it to express the idea of karma, that y…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 02:56AMMonday, February 20, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017. The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA. It’s February, or Black History Month in the U.S., and it’s time for my annual pilgrimage to The Fox Theatre for Alvin Ailey Am…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:53AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York. February 16, 2017. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, has brought audiences closer to the process of arts creation for sev…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:43PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Rachel Sara Wool, an attorney at D’Alessio Law Group in Los Angeles, has had a lifelong love affair with dance. Beginning at age six, she trained in various styles, taking classes in tap, …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:16PMThe hit musical The Bodyguard launched its first North American Tour at Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, New Jersey, on November 25, 2016. The tour, which requires 24 cast members, will co…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:05PMThe National Dance Week Foundation (NDWF) is a non-profit whose mission is to “expose and introduce as many people as possible to the enjoyment and benefits of dance.” Since 1981, NDWF h…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:59PM Meeting Ellie Heyman amongst the hymnals and lighting instruments of a church balcony felt both appropriate and thrilling. In telling this story of a long-ago Siberia, she has employed an…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 09:00AMSaturday, February 11, 2017. Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA. Cuban contemporary dance ensemble Malpaso Dance Company is touring the U.S. again, and it recently visited Atlanta to pr…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 06:44AM 
