Modern Dance News

Fairfax Academy dance students Katie Davidson, Anna Marie Tiss, Rachel Fallavollita and Alisha Dwivedi practice for a performance of “3 Epitaphs,” a modern dance by legendary choreographer Paul Taylor.

This week's dance events include speed dating musicians and dancers, the latest from Ryan Heffington and Los Angeles Ballet continues to paint the town Balanchine Red.

Last week, Tel Aviv was covered in a thick layer of fog. Unusual for this time of year, the strange weather cast a moody, dreary cloud over local denizens.

Name of the Italian-French choreographer Clotilde Tiradritti is widely known in the artistic world in Europe and beyond.

Every year, dozens of emerging choreographers vie for a spot on Moving Current's New Grounds program.

The Charleston Broadway Dance Ensemble is a regional student dance company presenting the most recent performance genre to hit Broadway, the “Dansical.” The Dansical is an in depth choreographic project by which dancers take a story based on the musical theatre format and translate it entirely into dance vocabulary.

Once a year, since 2009, dancer Yaelisa has brought flamenco to the stage of Pacifica Performances, each time sending her thrilled, whistling audience to their feet in applause.

Kevin O'Hare as Edward II and Leticia Muller as 'Queen Isabella' in Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of 'Edward II' which opens in front of Princess Margaret at the Hippodrome tonight .

This Sunday evening, participants in a large-scale interactive performance will hoist programmable umbrellas outfitted with LED lights skyward in a shimmering spectacle of red, green, and blue.

Success is a direct result of a lot of hard work and plenty of dedication. Nobody knows this formula better than veteran dance instructor, Beth Florentino.

Tuesday night, I sat in on a dress rehearsal of 300 Tapes, co-created by Ame Henderson and Bobby Theodore.

Strange Fruit, an Australian performance troupe, perform in midair perched atop 16-foot-high flexible poles at the festival green space across from the Virginia Arts Festival building in downtown Norfolk on May 11, 2013.

At the end of his excellent book Mastery , after carefully composing the argument that genius is available to everyone and delineating the steps necessary to cultivate it, Robert Greene makes the following claim: ... The design of the human brain -- its inherent need to make connections and associations -- gives it a will of its own.

Among the self-help books that flood the marketplace annually are a number that concentrate on happiness; not necessarily how to achieve this state of contentment or bliss, but an analysis of people of different ages.

Springtime in Boston means magnolias in bloom, the Sox at bat, and the ballooning of the small but fervent local dance audience.

ONCE again the Locsin Dance Workshop is gearing up for its culminating showcase this summer.

For locals and visitors looking to escape the heat and soak up some culture, the McCallum Theatre will host three performances this summer, the theater announced Friday.

One is a living, dancing choreography on art paper. The other a sweeping, solemn document of a grainy epoch-of a country's contortions at a sudden bend of history.

Olga Berest, a Manhasset resident, can't travel anywhere in the world without meeting a current or former dance student.

Martha Graham was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.