It’s a simple photograph: a young man staring directly into the camera, arms folded. In the image captured in 1962, dance maestro Alvin Ailey looks defiant. Rhea Combs also sees something else when ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When it comes to modern dance, Richmond's Frances Wessells stands - or dances - apart. She's been teaching it for 80 years. She's still at it as her 98th birthday approaches. "I think ...

Black Grace contemporary dance troupe infuses its performances with modern and classic forms of dance and music. (Photo courtesy of Eva NaRanong | Visions and Voices) Internationally recognized New ...

Keshet Dance Company will explore “A More Beautiful Question” through contemporary dance from Friday, Nov. 1, through Saturday, Nov. 9. Set at the Keshet Center for the Arts, the program will feature ...

“Like a racehorse out of the gate” is how Brenda Way describes the members of her ODC/Dance company as they take the stage and perform. “Beautiful when running, and so exciting,” she elaborates. Local ...

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Pride, greed, envy, sloth, gluttony, lust and wrath. These are the cardinal sins translated onto the stage in a contemporary multimedia performance presented by Nashville Ballet in collaboration with ...

Kyle Abraham is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. He has been on the downtown contemporary-dance scene for more than two decades, and in 2006 he founded his own company, A.I.M by Kyle ...

Shirley Ririe died on Aug. 17 at the age of 96. FOX 13 News featured her impact on Utah dance in 1999. For the past 35 years, Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury have run the Ririe Woodbury Modern Dance ...

GREENWICH — The movements start out simple. The man and woman pull themselves in diagonals, their lower bodies tight and controlled. The scene feels unstable, like the chemistry between them could ...

As the director of the American Dance Festival, he oversaw the growth of diverse dance traditions, both in the United States and abroad. By Claudia Bauer Charles Reinhart, who as the longtime director ...

Donald McKayle, the pioneering dancer and choreographer whose seven decades in modern dance distinguished him as one of the art form’s leading lights and socially conscious practitioners, has died. He ...