Modern Dance

What the Heck Is Modern Dance?

Nora Younkin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Modern Dance, Chicago Dance, Live Performance, Art School, Student Performance, Arts, Contemporary Dance, Performance Art, Chicago Around Town, Columbia College Chicago, College Dance, Degree in Dance, Dance Degree, Chicago News

Sometimes it would seem audiences are afraid of modern dance because it's not evident what it's about. Let me tell you another secret: that's okay. Take chances. See something weird. Talk about it.

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Found Objects: Ivy Baldwin's Ambient Cowboy

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Ambient Cowboy, Ivy Baldwin, Dance, Glass House, Lawrence Cassella, Ivy Baldwin Dance, Modern Dance, NY Around Town, Dance Ny, Arts News

Ivy Baldwin can make us feel. But Anna Schuleit's set design is the only part of Ambient Cowboy that really makes us think.

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Please Don't Miss Pina

Misha Lyuve | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Pina, Art, German Dance Company, Win Wenders, Modern Dance, Pina Bausch, Cinema, Wim Wenders 3d, Pina Movie, Wim Wenders Pina, Video, Culture News

Pina a visually stunning and thought-provoking documentary by Win Wenders, shows the medium of dance as language. Not just in a perfection of movements, coordination and balance -- but the language that comes out of the deep humanness, alive as a conversation.

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Robert Moses' Kin Does it Again

Larissa Archer | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Modern Dance, Robert Moses' Kin, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts, Novellus Theater San Francisco, San Francisco Art, Robert Moses' Kin Performances, San Francisco Around Town, Robert Moses' Kin Dance Comany, San Francisco News

With all the concerts, readings, exhibits and shows going on, how do you decide what to fit into your all-too-brief weekend? Well, attending a performance by Robert Moses' Kin is like packing several artistic forays into one evening.

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Review: Pam Tanowitz's Untitled (The Blue Ballet)

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Untitled (the Blue Ballet), Brian Reeder, Blue Ballet, Ashley Tuttle, Ballet, Dance, Modern Dance, FLUX Quartet, Arts News

Time seems to pass very slowly in Tanowitz's austere world. We become overly conscious of the weight of her choreography, bearing down on us, smothering us slowly.

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Dancing Offstage

Lightsey Darst | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Dancers, Retirees, Dance, Walking, Cities, Lightsey Darst, Modern Dance, Quitting Dance, Minneapolis, Arts News

February. Here in this northern city it's cold. Onstage you can still see dancers running barefoot in silky rags that flutter, revealing midriff, shap...

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WATCH: The Religious Roots Of Dancer And Choreographer Bill T. Jones

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: New York Live Arts, Fela! Super Fly, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/the Promised Land, Hiv, Arnie Zane, Everybody Works, Modern Dance, Bill T. Jones, Grieving, Still/Here, Video, Blauvelt Mountain, Aids, Christianity, Dance, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., African Dance, Religion News

Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to...

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Pioneers: Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring

Network Awesome | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Martha Graham, Dance, Network Awesome, Isamu Noguchi, Appalachian Spring, Modern Dance, Aaron Copland, Video, Culture News

Martha Graham could be called the Great American Dancer, but quite simply, she is one of the most influential dancers and choreographers of all time.

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Dancing While 9 Months Pregnant

Steven I. Weiss | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: 2nd Child, Dancing, 9th Month, 9 Months, New York, Pregnancy, Professional Dancing, Dance, Modern Dance, Parents News

Beyonce Knowles made headlines around the globe for dancing early in her pregnancy at the MTV Awards, but I'd rather watch my wife, modern dancer Rachel Feinerman, dance all the way until the baby is born.

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Rennie Harris's Reign Rains Down on China

Debra Levine | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Hip Hop, Rennie Harris, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Reign Dance, China, Modern Dance, Rennie Harris Reign, Dance, Lulu Washington, LA Dance, Arts News

Reign, choreographed by hip-hop guy Rennie Harris, rained down on Henan Province in June, performed by Lula Washington Dance Theatre during the Los Angeles-based modern dance company's three-week tour of the China.

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China, Meet Crenshaw: Lula Washington Dance Theatre Goes On Tour

Debra Levine | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Marcus-Miller, Mahesh Balasooriya, Marcus Miller, Slidepollajax, Rennie Harris, Christopher Huggins, Lulu Washington, Crenshaw, Modern Dance, Jazz, Hip Hop, African Dance, Dance, China, Arts News

Winding down a 25-day, four-province tour of Central China, Lula Washington Dance Theatre delivered a kickin' mixed-repertory dance program -- its all...

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PHOTOS: Genius Choreography

Debra Levine | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Paul Taylor Dance Company, Slidepollajax, Paul Taylor, Michael Trusnovec, Michelle Fleet, Annamaria Mazzini, Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center, Choreography, Modern Dance, Ballet, Dance, Arts News

The surviving genius of the second generation of American modern dance, Paul Taylor, 80, still goes into the dance studio and creates two new works a ...

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Dancing in the Dark: Experiencing Dance Without Sight

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dancing, Modern Dance, Blindness, New York Public Library, Experimental Dance, Dance, Staten Island, Nypl, New York News

Dance troupe Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums perform what they call "unseen dance" -- original dances experienced through senses other than sight.

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Heidi Latsky: The Artist to Watch

Donna Fish | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dancers, Disabled Community, Modern Dance, Sean Curran, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., New York News

Some artists are one hit wonders, some get enough acclaim to grow their craft over time. Luckily for us as audience members, choreographer Heidi Latsky never gave up.

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Nutcracker, Interrupted: Mark Morris' The Hard Nut Is a Delightfully Zany Take on the Beloved Holiday Ballet

Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Théâtre De La Monnaie, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Brussels, Brooklyn, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Nutcracker, Modern Dance, The Hard Nut, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mark Morris, Slidepollajax, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bam, Dance, NY Events, NY Culture, New York News

From the moment the curtain rises onto a pack of booze-swilling suburbanites engaged in a libidinous promenade, it's clear The Hard Nut is not your ordinary Nutcracker.

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DANCE: Diavolo At Hollywood Bowl, A Review

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, Reviews, Modern-Dance, Hollywood Bowl, John Adams, Dance, Modern Dance, Diavolo Dance Ensemble, Dance Performance, Jacques Heim, Hollywood, Arts News

Since its formation in 1992, the Diavolo ensemble has used portable architectural units to create movement theater about our relationship to an unstab...

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The Most Culturally Radical Show on TV (and Sometimes One of the Cheesiest) is on Fox

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, John Cage, Desmond Richardson, Celine Dion, Twyla Tharp, Nigel Lythgoe, Danny Tidwell, Post-Modernism, Dance, Modern Dance, Merce Cunningham, Entertainment News

When I want to spend an hour or two with the most culturally radical show on TV--a multi-racial, multi-cultural program where race, gender and sexual orientation truly don't seem to matter--I watch "So You Think You Can Dance".

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Dancing in a Vacuum: The NEA Says Get Online

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Technology Entertainment and Design, Skybetter and Associates, Time Out New York, Marc Kirschner, Sydney Skybetter, Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, Savion Glover, Design Brooklyn, Ted, The LXD, Jennifer Edwards, Douglas Sontag, Dance Tech, Dance Technology, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

"American dance is a fugitive art, resistant to capture, elusive in definition, and difficult to quantify." - Douglas C. Sonntag, Director of Dance f...

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DANCE: Pilobolus Returns To Dartmouth

nytimes.com | ALASTAIR MACAULAY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hopkins Center for the Arts, Pilobolus Dance, Dartmouth College, Modern Dance, Dance Company, New England, Arts News

For no other company, however, is a season at Dartmouth truly a return home as for Pilobolus. Thirty-nine years ago, when the student body was all mal...

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DANCE: Companies Venture Into LA's Great Outdoors This Summer

latimes.com | Victoria Looseleaf, Special to the Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ford Amphitheatre, Hollywood Bowl, Outdoor Venues, Modern Dance, Dance Companies, Los Angeles Dance Companies, Arts News

A concert under the stars stirs up images of picnic dinners and sparkling wines for audiences. But for dancers, outdoor venues are a unique canvas, of...

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The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy

Linda Constant | Posted 05.25.2011

The new standards of cultural discourse strive for elements such as shared platforms of communication, multifaceted engagements, and an understanding of mutual objectives and benefits.

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Why Kanye West Could Never Be Fela Kuti

Derek Beres | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill T Jones, Broadway, Modern Dance, Nigeria, Kanye West, Fela Kuti, Afrobeat, Entertainment News

While Kanye West's admitted disdain for books is well known, I reflected on his recent comments while at the Eugene O'Neill Theater watching Fela!, the production based on the life Fela Kuti.

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Why I Worry About Modern Dance

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Modern Dance, Dance, Merce Cunningham, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Entertainment News

Virtually every great modern dance company was founded more than 40 years ago. Where is the current, not to mention next, generation of great modern dance companies to carry the torch?

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Spotlight on the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harkness Foundation for Dance, James Cobb, Luis Montes, Jim Luce, Modern Dance, Mexican-American, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Maxine Steinman, Matthew Ferry, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Fund for Creative Communities, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Youtube, Dance Education, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Agdt, Joseph Papp's Latin Festival, Max Lifchitz, Elisenda De Fábregas, Carnegie Hall, Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater, Jennifer Downing, Annabella Gonzalez, Latin Classicism, New York-New York, Entertainment News

Annabella is known for having an eye for movement that conveys the essence of emotional situations. This shines through in "Primavera."

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Dancing With the Stars Needs to Do Something Other than Add Social Dances and a Non-Ballroom Judge to Spice Up the Show

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011

Is it just me or is this the most boring season thus far of Dancing With the Stars?

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