Dance News

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.

Give it a couple more years, and Burlington's 12-year-old Spielpalast Cabaret will have lasted as long as the Weimar Republic whose popular theater inspired it.

Kelrik's musical version of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" would make Disney proud.

The annual Blurred Borders Dance Festival, to be held at Saville Theatre at San Diego City College on Friday and Saturday, will showcase performances from Regina Klenjoski of Los Angeles, Ericka Aisa Moore of San Diego's Eveoke Dance Theatre and the Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, also from San Diego.

There is nothing quite like sitting in a theatre, not knowing what is about to be shown: one might liken this to opening presents - some are bright and sparkly, some are a bit odd and others might as well be thrown in the bin.

The stage is set for a Milford Haven dance group, which qualified for the streetdance world championships in Denmark this autumn.

Artists for World Peace presents the 2nd Annual Dance for Peace at The Kate, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook , on Saturday, June 29, at 8 p.m. Inspired by the International Peace Belt and featuring some of the most gifted dancers and musicians from New York, Connecticut, Boston and Providence, this extraordinary performance benefits the scholarship ... (more)