"The dolls represent characters who could be there but they also represent missing characters...They look very much like 21st Century kids attending a Black Metal concert," says Gisèle Vien…
"BOOM! is not a black woman’s declarative manifesto about breast cancer survival, rather the work is an intimate, honest exploration of survival, reality, and questioning," Nia Austin …
"'In the studio I have my ‘All About Me’ hat on. Then I go home and I put on my ‘Never About Me’ hat, the hat you wear as a parent." Liz Gerring..
"For twenty-five years, Belloni has studied ancient sacred chants, drumming, and healing trance dances from Southern Italy. She can carry any show, without the aid of a company..." Deirdre T…
"...Melnick turns around and is holding an unsheathed kitchen knife with which she calmly and coolly dances, it takes a moment for an audience member to feel the hairs on one's neck jump…
"The elegance of the man’s long fingers around his female partner’s body, the pressure against an imaginary surface that propelled him through space, caused my eyes to focus like…
"The annual 'Fall for Dance' Festival at City Center is a beloved New York institution. Low-cost tickets and a wide variety of dance troupes and styles guarantee a smorgasbord of mov…
"Meet one of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch's newest company members, Michigan native and Juilliard graduate Breanna O’Mara."
"One of the most important ways to reawaken the inner dance enthusiast is to get people talking to the artists - not in a huge, formal proscenium theater-Â but in a small setting, like a …
"They shatter the mannerisms and ethos of the Baroque period and reassemble these gilded fragments to forge something contemporary yet wholly reminiscent in Court/Garden." Erin Bomboy, New Y…
"Dance-wear strongly inspired the looks prancing down the Spring/Summer 2015 runways, and contrary to popular trends, tutus weren't the only silhouettes the designers noticed this season…
"I think in the beginning the challenge for me was to really feel like a ballet dancer since I didn’t grow up just doing ballet. I felt like an intruder, a jazz dancer trying to do bal…
"And dance is not my job. It’s my life. It’s who I am.” Alessandra Ferri.
"I always knew I would be a dancer. I always loved and connected with Tap the most – from growing up watching movie musicals with my Grandma to seeing Diane Walker and Jimmy Slyde on s…
Matthew Westerby, Colleen Thomas and Bill Young...Distinctly different visions come together in one show at Triskelion Arts. Â
"Crawling on all floors, belly to the ground like a soldier, then spinning ferociously and leaping through, on, and over the newspapers, Wolcott creates numerous sculptural islands and canyo…
"The intimate West End Theatre is a perfect venue for dances laced with nuances and subtle shifts." Deirdre Towers, New York, NY.
"How can the performers really connect with the audience? How can the audience really connect with the dancers and not just sit back and judge them?..." says RoseAnne Spradlin.
"Reimagining dark swan on Urban Bush Women, a legendary American dance company, was a beautifully challenging invitation," says Nora Chipaumire.
"In We Are Still Watching, she recasts show-goers as performers, and we spend an hour reading aloud a play, randomly passing around scripts to ensure everyone has a go in the spotlight." Eri…
"Our own bodies are implicated from the start, submerged in Lerman’s investigation as we enter the theater through a back door and shuffle past a series of tableaux vivants." Robert Jo…
"I've always known I wanted to make things. I've always been overwhelmed by powerful story telling – in the body, in song, in spoken and written language – and dancing wa…
Though burlesque artists are known for taking their clothes off, costuming is vital to their routines.“Clothing provides so much texture, context, and opportunity for a richer experien…
"And so, over the two evenings of Abraham's most recent group works, presented at New York Live Arts last month, this old, straight Jewess attempted to get with the program." Mindy Aloff…
Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company dish on their favorite threads, signature looks and costume mishaps.