Across generations, Lai Hung-Chung and Shen Wei are grappling with the possibilities of Chinese contemporary dance as they ...

New Ballet, the institution that Silicon Valley looks to for excellence in the art of ballet, announces the 8th annual Fast Forward, two evenings of new contemporary ballet by seven choreographers.

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thanks to a $50 million grant, a new festival has been born. Kyle Abraham helps to curate the first edition, which is part of the center’s Summer of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Don’t be fooled by its relatively small size. This calendar of Cleveland-area dance events this season only scratches the surface of what’s actually taking place. What’s listed here ...

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 ...

Dana Tai Soon Burgess has been a leading figure in the dance world for over 30 years. But it wasn’t until the pandemic that the out Korean-American choreographer had a chance to really reflect on his ...

John Scott's irish modern dance theatre present two new dance pieces this Spring. Iconic choreographer Merce Cunningham's 'Four Solos', choreographic event of four solos performed by 3 outstanding ...

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 ...

If you want to talk about contemporary dance in Nashville, be prepared to hear a lot about Banning Bouldin and Becca Hoback. The two dancers — whose stories intertwine intricately as if they’d been ...

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 ...