by Garnet Henderson for Dance Magazine | Sep 8, 2020 | Higher Ed, Teaching Tips
Having a lighter dance schedule these days means more time to dive into your dance history— including the broader social and political issues that have influenced dancemakers past and present. Katiti King, a faculty member at Barnard College and Gibney in New York...
by Crystal Nicholls For Dance Magazine | Jul 16, 2020 | News
Even dancers who love their isolations and hip rolls might be totally unaware of where jazz dance comes from.Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance, which premieres at the Dance on Camera Festival on Sunday, July 19, aims to change that. Directed by Khadifa Wong and...
by Dance Spirit | Mar 4, 2019 | Placeholder content
The dance world is brimming with superstitions. One of the most common is never to say “good luck” before a show, since everyone knows uttering the phrase is, in fact, very bad luck. Actors say “break a leg” instead. But since that phrase...
by Dance Magazine | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
When I was a young dancer in Louisville, Kentucky, my ballet teacher used to speak a lot about Merrill Ashley. She brought neoclassical technique to exquisite new heights under Balanchine, and as a technician, she famously paved the way for today’s balletic whiz...
by Rachel Caldwell | Oct 12, 2017 | Trending
Martha Graham was the “Mother of Modern Dance,” influencing generations of dance artists with her incomparable choreography and technique that featured the pioneering concept of contraction and release. But did you know…1. Graham frequently created...
by Rachel Caldwell | Aug 10, 2017 | News
American Dance: The Complete Illustrated Historyby Margaret FuhrerVoyageur Press; 288 pages; $45Legendary dancers and choreographers like Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Martha Graham jump off the pages of this beautiful coffee-table book on the history of...
by Rachel Caldwell | Aug 1, 2017 | Trending
Broadway choreographer Danny Daniels passed away on July 7 in Santa Monica, California, at age 92. Daniels was known for his choreography in musicals, such as Walking Happy, Annie Get Your Gun and The Tap Dance Kid, for which he won the 1984 Tony Award for best...
by Rachel Caldwell | Jul 28, 2017 | Trending
Michael Bennett is best known for the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Chorus Line (1975), now considered the quintessential concept musical, in which the choreography, dialogue, music and staging support a central theme. The musical’s intimate subject matter—the...
by Rachel Caldwell | Jul 25, 2017 | News
As a founding member of the 1960s New York City–based dance collective Judson Dance Theater, Yvonne Rainer was one of the 20th century’s most innovative choreographers. But did you know that she had an equally remarkable career as a filmmaker from 1972 to...
by Rachel Caldwell | Jun 14, 2017 | Trending
This past week, the University of California, Irvine, Etude Ensemble paid tribute to Donald McKayle, with a performance of Journey of the Heart: A Celebration of Works by Donald McKayle. The renowned choreographer created the student performance group in 1995 when he...