No matter the locale, the ballet world uses French terms for steps. But modern dance has no standard vocabulary: The word choice and the tongue are dependent upon the choreographer or teacher. In Peru ...
It’s incredibly ambitious for a Chicago company to choose A Chorus Line, because although the city has a strong dance community, it’s not one with a tradition of crossing over into theatrical dance.
They’re using the universal language of dance. A Ditmas Park performer is using a new theater piece to bridge her family’s generational — and linguistic — divide. Haruna Lee, who speaks very little ...
The status of dance in American culture is deeply paradoxical. Concert dance is one of the most elite art forms imaginable. The demands placed on professional dancers are so punishing that those of us ...
For almost three decades, Jomba! has been a fixture on South Africa's contemporary dance calendar.
I’m a Los Angeles-based photographer and I had read about DANCE+DESIGN II The Language of Dance: The Eloquence of Astaire, here on DnA’s blog. I decided to attend and photograph the performance, and ...