Dance News

CAST your mind back to the Britain's Got Talent finals in May. With nearly 20 million UK viewers tuned in and millions more glued to TVs around the world, it was the most watched show in six years.

West Chester University Dance Company, in cooperation with The College of Visual and Performing Arts, is proud to present E Pluribus Unum.

Standing ovations, cheers and whistles marked the opening night of Counter Point, in which some of WA's finest contemporary dancers featured in distinctly different pieces from local choreographer Jo Pollitt and France's Didier Theron.

Faculty and visiting artists from the Department of Dance at Ohio State present "Manimals and Other Human Creatures," an evening of new works, Thursday - Saturday, November 19-21, 2009 at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Theatre, 1813 N. High St.

Brian Capron, best known as Coronation Street's evil killer Richard Hillman, excels in a completely different role as he milks the laughs in hit comedy Stepping Out at Devonshire Park Theatre.

First Stephen Harper got by with a little help from the Beatles. Now the prime minister is cashing in on a little Bollywood cachet.

DANCE Next year it will be 30 years since choreographer and dance maven Krissy Keefer cofounded the radical feminist Wallflower Collective in Oregon, and 25 years since she relocated her social activist Dance Brigade Company to San Francisco.

Competing aspects of masculinity are central to ARENA Dances' performance at The Lab in Minneapolis this weekend.

MARK MORRIS recently told a journalist his earliest memory was "bobbing to music" and you can almost imagine him in the wings bobbing away.

The American choreographer Mark Morris breezed into London last week - and that is exactly the right verb to use to describe a man whose joyful disposition is reflected in the work he creates.

Elements of sadness, hope, joy and courage artistically bloom in the Cowichan Theatre Friday during Ballet Victoria's unique version of The Secret Garden and Selected Works.

Choreographer, director and producer Adam Shankman joined "So You Think You Can Dance" this season as its third full-time judge.

Axis Dance Company, which produced its annual season over the weekend at Oakland's Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts, continues to occupy its unique niche in the Bay Area arts scene and exceptional choreographers keep adding to the troupe's stature.

By Diana Szeinblum, 8 p.m. today-Sunday, On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., Seattle; $24 . Dance review In the fearless, gale-force landscape of "Alaska," created by Argentinean choreographer Diana Szeinblum, bodies convulse and metamorphose in brutal phrases that read like symptom and remedy both.

R eggie Wilson and Andrya Ouamba have been collaborating on "The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn" for more than three years.

An all-star cast will pay tribute to the late tap legend Gregory Hines and many others in "Thank You, Gregory!" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

KOCHI: Krishnapriya Nazeer dances, none of her relatives watch the performance. They are among the audience alright, but with bent heads and closed eyes.

British choreographer Richard Alston has leapt from hippy rebel to member of the modern dance establishment with impressive ease, writes Sanjoy Roy Shuffle it Right by the Richard Alston Dance Company In short Initially a drop-out, then a rebel, Richard Alston has become part of the modern dance establishment.

You'll still get to see a lot of Mia Michaels , even though she's no longer on So You Think You Can Dance .

Every November, dance aficionados head to Chicago for the city's month-long boogie festival, Dance Chicago to see everything from ballroom to ballet to clogging to hip-hop. This year marks the 15th anniversary of Dance Chicago, and while you can expect some good dancing, the fest is changing it up this year.