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Mark Morris: 'You don't feel like you're looking at a dance company,' said Canadian dancer Peggy Baker of the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Dance Theatre of Harlem , the groundbreaking and newly revitalized classical and contemporary ballet company, will open the 2013 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival season in the Ted Shawn Theatre on June 19-23.

The streets of Lower Manhattan are filled with movement all day. Office workers bent on errands march purposefully, annoyed by the loping, unpredictable gait of tourists who cross their path only to come to a sudden stop.

A person has to be a bit of a risk taker, a lover of mostly modern and oft-times edgy classical music, willing to sit for hours in hard chairs or delight in the pleasures of a lawn yawn to appreciate the Ojai Music Festival .

NBC Today Show's hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb learn a few dance moves from Orville Hall and members of Dance Xpressionz on the set of Television Jamaica's 'Smile Jamaica' morning show.

Choreographer William Forsythe was in Philly weeks ago to set Artifact Suite on Pennsylvania Ballet and the inside story was that he couldn't have been more engaged with the dancers and willing to tweak his revered opus for them.

Thoughts of the apocalypse are all over movie screens this summer, and now the theater is also bracing for the end of the world.

The Berks Arts Council 's 2013 Bandshell Concert Series will bring to Reading diverse musical styles that bridge numerous cultures, organizers announced Monday.

In the woods of Becket, Massachusetts , the largest gala audience since 2007 kicked off the festival's 81st season with cocktails in Blake's Barn, performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre -- equipped with comfortable new seats -- and a tent-sheltered dinner prepared by Peter Platt of the Old Inn on the Green.

"Spotlight on Seattle," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and "Inter National Series," 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Raisbeck Hall/Cornish College of the Arts, 2015 Boren Ave., Seattle; tickets and info: www.SeattleIDF.org.

Michael Jackson's health deteriorated so badly in the last weeks of his life that he couldn't perform some of his trademark dance moves, according to evidence presented in his family's lawsuit against a concert promoter.

SINGER, DANCER, ACTOR Jeff Hyslop will be featured this Friday and Saturday at the Old Church Theatre in a show by Love to Perform Holly Theatre Dance.

After a century nestled in Strawberry Park, the idea of Perry-Mansfield may initially seem quaint - a sweet little performing arts summer camp with rustic log cabins and open-air studios.

AN evocative and ethereal piece of dance theatre will conjure up the essence of Fenland during a production at the Angles Theatre in Wisbech on Monday, June 17. Using interviews with eel-catchers, farmers, parish councillors, museum keepers, molly dancers and conservationists, choreographer Dan Canham has created the show Ours Was the Fen Country.

The 2013 Star Parivar awards, held in Mumbai over the weekend, was graced by quite a few Bollywood celebrities including Shilpa Shetty , among others.

Shaping Sound , a new contemporary dance company that features Emmy nominee and Bare choreographer Travis Wall , concludes its 13-city tour June 17 at New York City's Beacon Theatre.

A powerful dance piece highlighting the tragic effects of teen bullying was presented at New York's Young Choreographer's Festival , June 15. Presented by guest artist Neil 'Dradle' Schwartz with Brian Henninger and a cast of 23 young dancers, this hard hitting hip hop piece was danced to perfection leaving the audience stunned into silence before ... (more)

The choreographer Mark Morris above was this year's guest Music Director at the Southern California contemporary music festival in Ojai last week.

Below are BWWDanceWorld.com's most popular articles from 6/9/2013 - 6/16/2013. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past week! Due to injury, American Ballet Theatre Guest Artist Alina Cojocaru will withdraw from her scheduled performance as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on July 3, it was announced today by Artistic ... (more)

New Delhi, June 16: The dance reality show "Dance India Dance Super Moms" may have given wings to several women and choreographer Marzi Pestonji, one of the judges on the show, says their life stories are shocking.