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A listing of summer dance festivals around the country. ...

American Ballet Theater’s spring season begins with “Don Quixote,” set to music by Ludwig Minkus. ...

An interplay of mirror images infuses Zoe/Juniper’s “BeginAgain Installed,” a New York premiere at 3LD Art & Technology Center. ...

Betty Harris has been around physie for ever!  Anyone who ever competed at Blacktown zone will remember “Little Betty”, her happy nature and smiling face (and cooking!)  Now Betty’s daughter and grand-daughter both teach physie and Betty is back!  At class that is, and still doing the splits at 75 years of age.  She’s very proud of both […]...

The Bolshoi Opera and Ballet filled in the details of performances scheduled for this summer. ...

Move is an exhibition of new and original artworks: collages, drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures based on observations of performance and movement. The dance-inspired works were created by artists aged between four and 83-years-old following a series of south London community workshops. Continue reading... ...

Quicksilver tap dancer who could find melody and rhythm in everything from Bach to bebop Whether he was clicking his quicksilver heels to slinky jazz swing or twitchy improv, the hoofer Will Gaines took the view that he was "just trying to dance the melody". Gaines, who has died aged 86, was not only an extraordinary dancer, but also one of a rare breed of open-minded listeners who could...

The Chimerica playwright's latest project is surprisingly light on words, as she reworks a 'very dark, very cruel' Virginia Woolf tale of broken relationships with the choreographer Ben Duke Virginia Woolf's short story, Lappin and Lapinova , is so quietly devastating that it's almost impossible not to gasp when you read the final line. It tells of a newly married couple who create a fantasy world,...

Melinda Ring’s new triptych of works at the Kitchen includes a dance, “Forgetful Snow,” featuring naked performers in a blinding-white space. ...

American Ballet Theater’s spring gala, which opened its eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday, brought off several feats. ...

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The evening ended with Alexander Ekman’s Cacti, one of the most wildly original, hilarious dances I’ve ever seen. If the Keystone Cops had taken up ballet, this is what they’d have looked like....

Danse: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas includes Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet’s “Topologie,” in which performers follow a particular route through Long Island City. ...

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The fact that I have now seen the show on four of its London seasons clearly reveals all that I need to say about my regard for its enjoyment quotient......

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The National Ballet of Canada Guillaume Côté Appointed Artistic Director of the Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur in 2015 Ballet News Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights About the Editor of Ballet News Advertisers Testimonials Contact Me Subscribe: Posts Comments Email Ballet News Straight from the stage – bringing you ballet insights Ballet News delivered to you Ballet News Breaking...

Some of the best moves in music videos what others deserve to be on the list? Last week saw the video release for Sia's barnstorming new single, Chandelier, featuring haunting choreography masterminded by Sia and Ryan Heffington, and performed by 11-year-old Maddie Ziegler from the reality show, Dance Moms . Truly great choreography can elevate a music video to a work of art. Here are a few of our...

Linbury studio, London Hans van Manen's Concertante is the mesmerising highlight of Northern's programme of short, mixed ballets As ballet companies become smooshed into an increasingly globalised product, Northern Ballet have remained determinedly true to their identity, dancing their own repertory of full-length story ballets, created by artistic director, David Nixon . But, while this policy has...

I thoroughly applaud the move to widen the choreographic vocabulary of what they present and I hope they can tour such a bill in future. A bravo to David Nixon (AD) and Mark Skipper (Chief Exec) for making this happen......