How to Reinvent a Dance Tradition? Be Light as a Feather.

Across generations, Lai Hung-Chung and Shen Wei are grappling with the possibilities of Chinese contemporary dance as they ...
Wall Street Journal

Celebrating 100 Years of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance

Martha Graham (1894-1991), heralded in her lifetime as “the mother of modern dance,” is being especially celebrated this year in the city where her career began and evolved.

Indian classical dances and their states: Complete list

India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions. The dance forms are interesting due to a combination of music, storytelling, ...
Vogue

A New Documentary Spotlights the Martha Graham Dance Company, 100 Years On

With a life that nearly bookended the 20th century, modern dance titan Martha Graham had one eye on the ancients and another on the contemporary moment. Her works explored Oedipal urges and creeping ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Martha Graham Took Classic Ballet and Turned It Into Modern Dance. It’s Still Moving Us 100 Years Later

Her choreography told stories in new ways and her collaborations with costume and stage designers changed the aesthetic of the art. Now, her dance company marks its first century Photographs by ioulex ...
St. Louis American

Modern dance pioneer Carmen de Lavallade passes at 94

Through movement, Carmen de Lavallade shifted culture. Her decades of work were a proclamation that Black women were not guests in the world of modern dance — they were architects. The legendary ...
Wall Street Journal

Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs

Videos of actor Austin Butler swaying at a Bad Bunny concert went viral this summer. Video: Medialhuna/TikTok “Dance like nobody’s watching” was always sound advice for anyone hesitant to let loose at ...
The Denver Post

When is a ribbon cutting so much more than opening a modern wing on a historic building? (Opinion)

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just on the other side of the holiday season, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, the organization that helped raise me and that I currently lead, is celebrating the ...
Religion News Service

How modern American women are finding Hinduism’s powerful goddess tradition through dance

(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance. (RNS) — In her early teens and early 20s, Halo Seronko struggled with ...
NBC DFW

Fort Worth choreographer creates space for women to lead in ballet

Alexandra Light, a former principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater in Fort Worth, is now making her mark behind the scenes. Though retired from performing, Light remains at home in the rehearsal ...
Los Angeles Times

Social media sexualized children’s dance. We need a return to form

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred I fell in love with dance as a child. For me, ...