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 ...

Alvin Ailey’s performing arts transcend the traditional boundaries of dance. The seminal dancer and choreographer created a living history of movement imbued with cultural memory and personal ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of Sarasota Contemporary Dance surround founder/director Leymis Bolaños Wilmott (center).

Dancer, choreographer and dance educator Shirley Mordine has died. Her five-decade career in Chicago included founding the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and originating the college’s ...