Tag: sleep no more

Annie Rigney believes the right song can expand the way dancers move. Whether she’s giving a Gaga class or teaching her own contemporary technique, she chooses music that will help students discover new qualities, rhythms, and syncopations in their bodies—and also get them out of their heads.  “I use music to help facilitate an emotional, […]

In a sun-soaked studio in Manhattan, members of the Martha Graham Dance Company (all women) lie on the floor with their feet and heads hovering off the ground. Choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith encourages the dancers to be unapologetic about being looked at as their bodies begin to tremble with exhaustion and they move into a […]