Dancers

Bal-loopers: When Ballet Dancers Fall From Grace

Risa Gary Kaplowitz | Posted 05.10.2012

Risa Gary Kaplowitz

Ballet is perfect; dancers are not. And thank goodness! A blunder now and then is just enough to remind the audience that what looks easy is actually brutally difficult, and it reminds us that we are not the gods and goddesses we sometimes think we are.

Dancing Offstage

Lightsey Darst | Posted 04.23.2012

Lightsey Darst

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...

SF Ballet's Onegin: Intensely Dramatic With 'Devilish' Choreography!

Katita Waldo | Posted 01.25.2012

Katita Waldo

Choreographically, the ballet is devilish and the partnering is unbelievably hard! The biggest challenge though, is to master the choreography while transcending the difficulty of the steps to tell the story.

Botero Sculpture Fetches $1.7M In NY

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

NEW YORK -- Fernando Botero's monumental bronze "Dancers" fetched over $1.7 million dollars at a New York auction, setting a new record for a sculptur...

Aloft: The New Dance Project (PHOTOS)

Chris Peddecord | Posted 12.31.2011

Chris Peddecord

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WATCH: Gas-Masked Dancers Hit The Subway

Posted 09.17.2011

It's been said New York's subway systems are a clear target for terrorist activities. Strange, then, that a shirtless, tattoed man in a gas mask serpe...

Ballet Performance Etiquette

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 05.25.2011

Lisa Mirza Grotts

It's that time of year: the opening of the ballet season. Common sense and courtesy will vastly improve the enjoyment of everyone's theatre experience...

Burlesque Dancers Stage Daring Dance In London

Posted 05.25.2011

Dancers donned lacy corsets, slinky fishnets and stiletto heels before descending upon London's Trafalgar Square in an effort to break the record for ...

Heidi Latsky: The Artist to Watch

Donna Fish | Posted 05.25.2011

Donna Fish

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.

Burlesque for the Bayou Part 2

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

Karen Dalton-Beninato

Last night at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, the women of Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana hosted their second Burlesque for the Bayou fund rai...

German Teens Win 'Ugly Dancing' Contest (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Striking more than a few dubious poses, a group of four German teens called "Die Dezentiner" took home top honors at the 2010 Ugly Dance World Cup, he...

Dancer

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

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PHOTOS: DANCE: World Tango Championships In Buenos Aires

Posted 05.25.2011

The Tango World Championships, an annual competition featuring 400 couples from 23 countries, came to a close this week. Chizuko Kuwamoto and Diego O...

PHOTO: Guess The Artist Responsible For This Masterpiece

Posted 05.25.2011

This painting, displayed large in the foyer of a Boston museum, is among the most famous works by this canonical American artist. HINTS: this painti...

WATCH: DANCE: Savion Glover Saves Tap On Colbert Report

Posted 05.25.2011

Savion Glover, a legend who is said to have "saved" the art of tap dancing, appeared on The Colbert Report last night to discuss his latest projects (...

'Dancing Alone To Pony': Blog Curates YouTubers Grinding To Ginuwine (VIDEOS)

Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011

If you haven't been to the tumblr blog Dancing Alone To Pony, you've been missing out. Over the past couple weeks they've been collecting all the YouT...

Life in the Clown Room

Steven Nereo | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven Nereo

Jumbo's is not just another strip club. It currently serves up the most entertainingly strange burlesque I've ever seen outside of a David Lynch movie.

Be The Art and the Artist

Angella Nazarian | Posted 11.17.2011

Angella Nazarian

I believe that somewhere deep in our hearts is the archive of all our intimate memories and desires, and the experiences we were meant to have. And we go through life as if it were a cosmic treasure hunt...

The Peculiar Limits of Black Society in New York

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialite, Journalist, Maggie Betts, Dale Dobson, Dr. Joyce Brown and Carl McCall, Emil Wilbekin, Cheryl Riley, Courtney Sloane, The E. T. Williamses, Ludget Delcy, Mr. And Mrs. Spike Lee, The Adairs, Michael Mccollom, Erana Stennett, Moises De La Renta, Willard Winter, Eula Johnson, Nancy Lane, Social Activist, Kirk Shannon Butts, Susan Taylor, The Governor and Mrs. Patterson, Kehinde Wiley, Photographer, David Patrick Columbia, David Levering Lewis, Evelyn Cunningham, Audrey Smaltz, Thelma Golden, Rachel Roy, Alma and Charlie Rangel, Michaela Angela Davis, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jason Campbell, Norma Darden, Kim Heirston, Ruth Ann Stewart, Sheila Bridges, New York Times, Joyce Mullins-Jackson, The Cosbys, Cordelle Cleare, Rene Cox, Ray Alexander Minter, Stanley Crouch, Back Designer, Bonnie Morrison, The Chenaults, Montgomery, President Obama, Tamara and Greg Tunie, Malcolm Harris, The Dinkinses, Gordon Chambers, Pam and Bill Perkins, Rainbow Room, Genève Jones, Aubrey Lynch, Society, G. Winston James, B. Michael, Lana Turner, Audrey J. Bernard, Harriet Cole, Henry Mitchell, Michelle Obama, Writers, Mr. And Mrs. Chris Rock, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Lowery Stokes Sims, Anthony Bryant, Famous, Clarence Haynes, Sherry Bronfman, The Redheads, Dancers, Nicola Vassell, Tyson Perez, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Marc Baptist, Kevin Bright, Phyllis Briley. Rocky Baron Boler, Tastemakers, Lou Willard, Town and Country, Susan Fales-Hill, Robin Bell Stevens, Artist, George Faison, The Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Gordon Davis, Hip Hop; Deitch Gallery, Reginald Van Lee, Stephen Burrows, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Is there really such a thing as 'black society'? Many people certainly used to think so! Imagine, today we have one African American president and ...

Billy Elliot's Proud Papa: An Interview With Gregory Jbara

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jon Chattman

The boys may get all the press in the Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot, but anyone who has seen the show knows veteran character actor Gregory Jbara subtly steals the show.

"So You Think You Can Dance" Producer Puts Underprivileged Youth In The Spotlight

Posted 05.25.2011

"So You Think You Can Dance" co-creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sees a lot of talented young people who aren't quite ready to take the st...

Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

Is Ballet Dead? Never! New York City Ballet Presents an Enticing Evening of New Work

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011

Tonya Plank

I had a wonderful night at New York City Ballet the other night. The program, titled "Here and Now", focused on some of the company's newest works, and was kind of a celebration of the future, of 21st Century ballet.