Dance News

These days, it is at times hard to recognize where the line is drawn between hip-hop and pop music.

Now playing at Cinerama ; will open Feb. 24 at the Uptown . Wenders will be present for a special screening of the film Friday at 8 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Tickets are $30 and available through www.cinerama.com . More than a quarter century ago, the German-born filmmaker Wim Wenders attended a dance performance in Venice.

Members of Verb Ballets rehearse Chung-Fu Chang's "The Lily" for its world premiere Friday at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts.

"Empire, The Crew," which is comprised mostly of members from the SKIP Entertainment Dance Company, auditioned for the new season of "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" in Los Angeles last month.

Harbourfront Centre and Arabesque, in association with Small World Music, present JAMRA, a contemporary production inspired by the dance forms of the nomadic and gypsy peoples of Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Iran and Lebanon.

Dancer, choreographer, and cultural pioneer Heather Maloney grew up on a farm in Virginia.

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Editor As one half of a dance company created by the late choreographer and modern dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, Ailey II continues the traditions and philosophies formed by its namesake.

First lady Michelle Obama dances the platypus dance with Perry the Platypus of the Phineas and Ferb show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort, Saturday, Feb.

In an unusual twist for a dance concert, Black Label Movement's "Visceral" program at the Cowles Center may be best described by its sounds.

CHENNAI: "The danger of a camera in front of a moving body is converting it into a still body and still bodies are very boring," said art critic Sadanand Menon.

You've heard of soccer moms and hockey moms. Recently, a Lifetime reality TV show-filmed here in Pittsburgh-has been putting the national spotlight onA Dance Moms .

The Alden in McLean has announced its first ever artist-in-residence, modern dance company Christopher K. Morgan & Artists/CityDance. The company will hold a series of educational and enrichment events leading up to the world premiere of Limited Visibility, choreographer Christopher K. Morgan's first evening-length work.

"Salaryman" is a powerful one-act contemporary dance piece to which its choreographer, Takehiro Ueyama, unfortunately has added a cumbersome 30-minute second half.

A curious thing happens when you collectively give an audience $1,000 and ask them to award to it to the best of three modern short ballets.

An illuminating, if desolating, evening in Rosebery Avenue late last week at an event described as "the UK dance industry's leading showcase, presenting the best of British dance to promoters and producers from the UK and across the globe.

Hollywood has embraced 3-D like a drowning man seizing a lifeline. The most innovative and exciting examples of the format have come not from special effects spectacles but German art documentaries? Can that be right? Last year, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams used the three-dimensional effect to convey the uneven surfaces of the Chauvet ... (more)

Igor Moiseyev's folk dance ensemble is celebrating its birthday on February 10 - on this day 75 years ago the choreographer held the group's first rehearsal.

She learned core technique, building a base and developing discipline as a child through ballet and tap.

A former Irvin High School dance teacher sentenced last month on federal child pornography charges is now facing state charges.

A few years ago, the annual Eastside dance festival, "Chop Shop: Bodies of Work," was a strictly Seattle-area affair.