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13.8KThe 2017 Bessie Awards Nominations
The NY Dance and Performance Awards (“The Bessies”), New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, recently...
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5.5KJacob’s Pillow expanding to become year-round center for dance
Jacob’s Pillow, celebrating its 85th Festival in 2017, is a National Historic Landmark, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and home to...
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7.5KChoreographer Denis Jones on Paper Mill’s ‘Mary Poppins’
Denis Jones is one of today’s most exciting choreographers on the musical theater scene. Whether designing dances for an original work or...
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8.0KThe fifth annual Legacy36: A line of former Rockettes
Most dancers are familiar with the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall’s dance troupe of tall, talented and beautiful precision dancers. While the...
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6.7KBryant Park presents month-long contemporary dance series
This summer, on Friday evenings from June 16-July 14, Bryant Park will showcase a series of performances highlighting fresh, original and innovative...
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5.3KA tribute to the legendary Dr. Chuck Davis
Dr. Chuck Davis (January 1, 1937 – May 14, 2017) I was not close to Dr. Chuck Davis. In fact, I only...
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5.0KSummer Fever at Steps on Broadway
Steps on Broadway, founded in 1979, and regarded as one of the true epicenters of New York’s professional dance community, is gearing...
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4.8KHubbard Street Dance Chicago announces 40th Season
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago recently announced the main company’s 2017–18 Season, specifically all its performances in Chicago celebrating the troupe’s 40-year history....
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4.7KPeriapsis Music and Dance collides two worlds
With his New York-based company Periapsis Music and Dance, pianist Jonathan Howard Katz offers a new take on a very old partnership....
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7.7KVassiliev Academy of Classical Ballet: Newcomer to the NYC training scene
Internationally acclaimed Russian principal ballet dancer Andrei Vassiliev directs the Vassiliev Academy of Classical Ballet (VACB). This Academy has been in its...
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5.2KDanny Kornfeld is touring across the country in ‘Rent’
Rent, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning rock musical written by Jonathan Larson, returned for a special 20th Anniversary Tour last year. The...
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4.2KAtlanta Ballet to undergo massive shakeup
News reports emerged on April 6 that Atlanta Ballet, a strong regional troupe known as the longest continuously performing ballet company in the...
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6.5KNorte Maar’s CounterPointe presents all-female collaborations
These days especially, it seems even more important to make sure women have a voice. For its fifth installment of choreographic showcase...
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5.9KSecond Companies: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2 nurtures the whole artist
Dance Informa continues its series on second companies with a spotlight on Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2. More than four decades ago, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company...
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5.6K#Taplife: Keeping tap relevant through social media
“Tap dance is still relevant if you use it to discuss relevant things” says Anthony Lo Cascio, former Tap Dog and current...
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8.0KNan Giordano to teach at World-Class Talent Experience
This weekend, World-Class Talent Experience, Inc. (WCTE) returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a dance competition event and to celebrate its fifth...
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5.6KUnder The Sea with Brian Steven Shaw of ‘The Little Mermaid’
Disney’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...
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20.2KFull Radius Dance: A physically integrated dance company
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Full Radius Dance is a widely renowned physically integrated company. The 2017 season marks the company’s 25th anniversary...
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6.9KTheresa Ruth Howard launches online MoBBallet project
Dancer Theresa Ruth Howard recently announced the launch of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet), a groundbreaking legacy project documenting and transforming...
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4.3KIntroducing Laura Valentine
Laura Valentine, the artistic director and choreographer for Numinous Flux Dance Company in Nashville, was recently named the winner for BellaMoxi Dance...
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6.0KSecond Companies: Boston Ballet II and meeting tomorrow’s dancers
Dance Informa continues its series on second companies with a spotlight on Boston Ballet II. Boston Ballet II (BBII) is a company...
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8.0KAllison DeBona and Rex Tilton bring artÉmotion to Ballet West
In just its third year, the artÉmotion Summer Intensive, led by Ballet West First Soloist Allison DeBona and Ballet West Principal Rex...
