In Neve Tzedek, the old Yemenite neighborhood of Tel Aviv, sounds of prayer from small synagogues in Ottoman period buildings are almost drowned out by the hubbub from bustling cafes and noisy tourist ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China. By Brian ...

Unlike ballet, contemporary dance is not necessarily intuitively "understood" by the general public. So, which factors influence whether audiences enjoy a contemporary dance performance? The ...

Contemporary dance takes an intriguing cross-cultural turn this week as Re-Garde, an Italian–French collaboration, arrives in ...

The experience of exile, whether literal or symbolic, is inevitably reflected in an individual’s body. Feeling cut off from one’s roots, or viewing yourself as a stranger in a foreign land, influences ...

When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios ...

Earlier this year, UChicago Maya took the Logan Center stage for the first time in two years with its winter conceptual showcase, “A Seat at the Table.” The dancers performed fourteen dynamic and ...

The country’s experimental dance artists, independent and resilient, are using their skills in a new arena: war. Krystyna Shyshkarova, who has a dance school in Kyiv, is developing a system that she ...

There may be no one in the arts with a harder job than that of a modern-dance choreographer. When a writer can’t figure out what to say next, she can turn off the computer and go take a nap. A ...

With about 10 students in the program at any time, close and regular contact with faculty is a given. Here, you’ll learn from two principal faculty members who led distinguished careers as ...

Call them dances to spring. The winter has been largely subdued, with some plants, trees and mosses never succumbing to the chill. That is the same sort of freshness, vitality and perseverance that ...