Martha Graham (1894-1991), heralded in her lifetime as “the mother of modern dance,” is being especially celebrated this year in the city where her career began and evolved.

“My initial impression of New York City was that it was full of people who cared about dance, who understood it as a vital part of our cultural history,” Rennie McDougall writes on the first page of ...

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Member Countess V. Winfrey (left), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Associate Artistic Director Qarrianne Blayr (center) and Dayton Ballet members in rehearsal for ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – What started as a simple promise to a group of students has grown into one of Hawaiʻi’s largest hip hop dance competitions. Sixteen years ago, an athletic director at Waipahu ...

Anyone familiar with the music and subculture of the Grateful Dead understands the innate physicality of a Dead show. A closely packed crowd flows in unison with the slow build of a jam, collectively ...

Her choreography told stories in new ways and her collaborations with costume and stage designers changed the aesthetic of the art. Now, her dance company marks its first century Photographs by ioulex ...

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company is featured in “Afterlife: Beyond the Light,” a documentary produced and directed by Cincinnati native Constance Brenneman. It is available to buy or rent on many ...

Indiana University announced Feb. 3 that Jacobs School of Music’s ballet program and the College of Arts and Science’s contemporary dance program will unite next school year to form the new Jacobs ...

American actress, choreographer, dancer, Kennedy Center Honoree and fashion swan, Carmen de Lavallade was, as WWD wrote in 1983, “very beautiful.” The New Orleans native and first Black prima ...

Through movement, Carmen de Lavallade shifted culture. Her decades of work were a proclamation that Black women were not guests in the world of modern dance — they were architects. The legendary ...

Indiana University is exploring a potential move of the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance into the Jacobs School of Music. Currently, the department is under the College of Arts and ...

Alexandra Light, a former principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater in Fort Worth, is now making her mark behind the scenes. Though retired from performing, Light remains at home in the rehearsal ...