Sunday, July 8, 2018
Dancers have thought it. Dance teachers have heard it. Today we are going to dig into the question, “Can we skip barre?” The short an answer is no. “Historically, starting class by hol…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:26AMLast month was Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. There are an estimated 47 million people worldwide living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. If you are not familiar with…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:11AMIf you haven’t heard of her by now, it’s time to come out from under that rock and recognize the incredible force Alicia Graf Mack has been in the dance world. As an elite dancer, she ha…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:56AMTracie Stanfield, artistic director of New York City-based company SynthesisDANCE and faculty member of Broadway Dance Center, has produced summer intensives for years. But for the first tim…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:55AMIn the second installment of our Dance Informa Video Interview Series, I had the extreme honor of interviewing four amazingly talented JUMP Dance Convention instructors, Kirsten Russell, Aki…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:50AMYou’re set to embark on a summer program, and you’ve packed your dance shoes, leotards and tights, accessories and excitement. But did you pack your etiquette? How one should behave in a…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:47AMBorn from professors and dancers at The University of Alabama (UA), Yonder Dance Company is a contemporary dance company from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that tours locally, regionally and internat…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:45AMSaturday, July 7, 2018
Gwen Verdon is remembered as one of the greatest triple-threats to have graced the Great White Way. You’d be surprised to learn that Verdon was horribly knock-kneed as a child — so much …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:29AMAs a young ballet student, Edwaard Liang in 1993 won the Professional Prize at the prestigious Swiss competition, the Prix de Lausanne. Twenty-five years later, he was a member of the jury f…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:58AMFriday, July 6, 2018
New York City Principal Sara Mearns is one of the most popular ballerinas of our time. She is bold, musical, dynamic and glamorous. And her resume doesn’t end with just stage performances.…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:56PMAlong with a glowing performing resume of his own, Spencer Liff’s choreography resume is lighting up, too. He worked as a choreographer on five seasons of the FOX hit series, So You Think …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:55AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
Dance Informa continues its series on second companies with a spotlight on Vanessa Long’s Long2 Dance Company. Running a dance company can be a lot of responsibility – managing r…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:41PMFriday, June 29, 2018
“The family comedy” has been around forever, but I only caught up with it at the very end of the 1930s when I was taken to “What A Life,” my first play which dealt with a teenager in…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:49PMThursday, June 28, 2018
The biggest dance competition in the world continued to shine as new and old competitors competed for their chance for the 1 million dollar prize and a chance to make their mark as the best …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:32PMThere is a new show that is quickly elevating into the pantheon of great mental health musicals. Joining the ranks of such powerful pieces as Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen is the new w…
SOURCE: thedrbroadway.com at 06:14AMMonday, June 25, 2018
World of Dance continued to keep pace as more hopefuls took the stage in hopes of making their mark and competing against some of the best dancers from around the world. Six more groups left…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:39PMMarquis Theatre, New York, New York. June 20, 2018. I had the opportunity to see Escape to Margaritaville (the Jimmy Buffett musical) just days before it was set to close on Broadway afte…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:07PMIt was such a joy to be reunited with Oscar Hammerstein II’s adaptation of Bizet’s opera “Carmen” at its current production by the Classic Stage Company. Tucked away on the far east …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:30AMFriday, June 22, 2018
The Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, New York. June 7, 2018. Some of the dances I most clearly remember and commend are those that built a sensory world that could pull me right in. In all…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:29PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
In 1976, three sisters – Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel and Lisa Mayo (née Elizabeth Miguel) from Kuna and Rappahannock ancestry – formed the legendary Spiderwoman Theater, the first i…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
The 2018 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts opens Wednesday, June 20 with the third oldest ballet company in the world, the Royal Danish Ballet, and Minneapolis-bas…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:19PMMonday, June 18, 2018
They say that “the third time’s a charm”, and that was certainly true for the third round of the Qualifiers on World of Dance. Seven more groups lit up the World of Dance stage for the…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 02:56PMProud to have collaborated with OnStage Blog on this piece about recent sexual abuse revelations within the theater community and ways to identify predatory behavior. http://www.onstageblog…
SOURCE: thedrbroadway.com at 09:06AMSunday, June 17, 2018
The Joyce Theater, New York, New York. June 15, 2018. It had been some time since I had been able to enjoy Philadanco. My memory recalled a well polished, professional and prolific dance co…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:34PMHibernian Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. June 2, 2018. The cultural image of a dancer is one who is lithe, impossibly flexible and able to whip out technical tricks just about as easily as bre…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:19PMThursday, June 14, 2018
Dance Informa had the great opportunity to have a conversation with Founder and Artistic Director of Philadelphia-based company Philadanco, Joan Myers Brown. The conversation could have gone…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:40PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. May 25, 2018. “Less can be more,” – an arguably cliche phrase that, unfortunately enough, is preached more than practiced in modern Weste…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:04PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Vets Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island. May 12, 2018. It’s undeniable that dance doesn’t have to he performed with any kind of score to be beautiful and meaningful. Yet live m…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:24PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Have you ever been to DancerPalooza? When attending the summer event, one would think that every young dancer in America was in attendance! With enough energy to bump the Richter scale, brou…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:09AM On a rainy Monday, I stopped by Teatro LaTea, located on the second floor of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side. LaTea is hosting a residency of the internatio…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
No one wants to watch a performer who’s just going through the movement. Spectators want to be transfixed and enchanted by an artist’s passion and focus when they take in a show. They wa…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:08AM 
