Dance News

An Eastern Cape man who graduated from a township ballet school has made headlines as a choreographer on Motown, the hit musical which has opened to sell-out audiences on Broadway, New York.

Sadler's Wells continues its String Of Rites season with Akram Khan's response to the Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet The Rite Of Spring.

Nicola Follows tumbled from a 1930 Bugatti Type 46 like this when the passenger door flew open on a winding California road.

The Ottawa International Children's Festival , the largest children's festival in Ontario, is gearing up to celebrate its 28th year in the Capital, May 28-June 2, 2013 at the LeBreton Flats Park and Canadian War Museum sites.

RICHMOND, VA. : Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities presents City Dance Theatre Company, Award-Winning Youth Dance Company Annual Concert, "Lest we Forget", a fundraiser Saturday, May 25, 7 pm at the Grace Street Theater.

At High Release Dance Company, each of the 17 current dancers has a story to tell and a chance to tell it.

DanceAfrica Atlanta, hosted by Giwayen Mata [ which means Elephant Women] in collaboration with the Atlanta University Center Consortium, is a weekend of festival events that includes workshops, symposia, concerts, presentations, the African Marketplace, topped off with the Elephant Leaders Awards Gala honoring some of the masters of dance.

Tom Gold Dance will perform as part of the Guggenheims Works and Process series on June 2nd and 3rd @ 7:30pm. In this interdisciplinary presentation that combines performing arts and science, New York Botanical Garden curator Dr.

On Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 2:00pm, MM2 Modern Dance Company will present a free preview of its newest work, THREE , as part of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' Family Arts Academy workshop.

Columbia's Slayton House has been turned into a strip club. The community center's eyebrow-raising transformation is only temporary, though, because its theater is hosting Silhouette Stages' lively production of "The Full Monty." Although this Broadway musical is mostly good, clean fun, it's still best to leave the kids at home; for that matter, ... (more)

Top West End choreographers are rehearsing students for an upcoming production being put on by Epsom's Laine Theatre Arts.

The annual visit of the Paul Taylor Dance Company is a highlight of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center's early summer season.

A famous Greek dance choreographer has visited Australia as he continues a self-proclaimed quest to see dances from the island of Crete spread throughout the world.

In this week's "So You Think You Can Dance," 18-year old Makenzie "Kenzi" Dustman, a senior from Great Oak High School, auditioned in Los Angeles and was sent straight through to Las Vegas.

"Front cloth for 'The Blue Train'" by Alexander Schervashidze. The National Gallery of Art's "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929: When Art Danced with Music" includes enormous set designs, such as this 39-foot-wide stage cloth, designed by Picasso.

Center Repertory Company's production of "Sweet Charity," led by Molly Bell's take-no-prisoners performance in the title role, is a great musical -- perhaps the best ever to play at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center.

A CHOREOGRAPHER who danced for the Queen is championing an unlikely combination of Welsh clog dancing and Brazilian martial arts.

Broadway dancer-choreographer Noah Racey premieres his new show Pulse , staged by two-time Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun , which opens May 23 at Florida's Asolo Repertory Theatre.

Song and dance - and especially tap dance - supply the material for Pulse , which is receiving its premiere at the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

An El Paso man is trying to make it big as he makes it to the second round of the Fox hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance." Donovan Gibbs passed the first round in Austin, and he is one of 150 people left vying for the title of best dancer and a $100,000 prize.