"I've got enough nerve to do anything!" - Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" "Swing Time," the sixth film that Ginger Rogers made with Fred Astaire, spins the workaday world of a gambler and a da…
It was a big night: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual fundraising gala at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday. She wore a big outfit: Artistic Director Judith Jamison, bald head glis…
"I've got enough nerve to do anything!" - Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" "Swing Time," the sixth film that Ginger Rogers made with Fred Astaire, spins the workaday world of a gambler and a da…
In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, there is nothing like a dame. (And who am I to argue?) But enough about brains. Let's talk legs. As far as the dancing in his musicals goes, it's the guys who carry the show.<...
Bill T. Jones is no shrinking violet in his choreography or at home in Valley Cottage, N.Y. He'll accept the Kennedy Center award for individualists everywhere.
When the Scottish Ballet took its production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" to New Orleans in 2013, the audience reacted to Blanche DuBois in toe shoes and a dancing Stanley Kowalski with sho…
When the Scottish Ballet took its production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" to New Orleans in 2013, the audience reacted to Blanche DuBois in toe shoes and a dancing Stanley Kowalski with sho…
More than one of the dances in the Washington Ballet's program of excerpts required the ballerina to bang a tambourine.Sadly, none called for her to stomp on it.At times during Thursday's "T…
Film director Spike Lee, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and bestselling author and New York Times columnist David Brooks will be among the participants in an arts summit at the Kenned…
"Right as I was about to jump off the Millennium Bridge," says a young blond woman with beefy arms, "Elizabeth Streb looked in my eyes and she said, 'Wreak havoc!'Â "The moment was not a s…
The Washington Ballet's "Alice (in Wonderland)" plunges you into a land of wonders, all right. It is quite a place, and its name really shouldn't be squished in between parentheses. Wonderla…
Leanne Cope, the Tony-nominated star of "An American in Paris" on Broadway, never saw herself as musical theater actress. "I thought maybe once I'd retired I'd join an amateur dramatic socie…
To mark its 10th anniversary, YouTube has released a playlist of some of the site's most popular dance videos from the past decade.Are you ready for an archeological dig of your meanderings …
must confess: I am probably the rudest person at any dance performance I attend. Critics can be odd seatmates. We slip in at the last minute; we're too busy scribbling notes to applaud; we d…
Floyd Mayweather is favored to beat Manny Pacquiao in Saturday's much-hyped welterweight title fight in Las Vegas. Mayweather's record is 47 wins, no losses. But that doesn't take into accou…
The hip-hop dancers of Rennie Harris RHAW could spin on their hands and twirl upside down until their legs blurred. Upper-body strength was not their issue. Still, metaphorically at least, t…
Growing up in Poland, Anya Cole learned to knit at 9. It became a passion, second only to dancing. Even after she became a professional ballet dancer, she made her own sweaters and legwarmer…
I love it when an artist shows me the beauty in the everyday. That's what I saw when I wandered into the Bjork exhibit recently at the Museum of Modern Art and encountered her music video fo…
If you could bottle and dispense what billowed forth in the Urban Bush Women's performance Friday, we'd have no talk of an energy crisis, no lackadaisical millennials, no disaffected voters …
Yet another gem has been added to Misty Copeland's weighty crown of celebrity: the ballerina is one of the 2015 Time 100, a list of the most influential people in the world according to Time…
The first time Misty Copeland leapt onto the stage Thursday in the Washington Ballet's production of "Swan Lake," you would have thought she had just whacked a grand slam across the Potomac.…
When Christopher Wheeldon was growing up in England, the only child of parents involved in amateur theater, he amused himself by building stage sets in his bedroom. The one he liked best was…
Powerhouse. That's the word that came to mind after I saw New York City Ballet's program of 21st-century works at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Wednesday night. Personality, warmth, styl…
Diversity is the theme of the Washington Ballet's 2015-2016 season, in more ways than one. It will include world premieres by Edwaard Liang and the Italian choreographer Mauro de Candio; a L…