Isadora Duncan invented an open-hearted, graceful form of dance. Her work was so beautiful that it radiated a shocking yet lyrical urgency -- and it forever opened the world to the possibilities of physical, musical expression by the human body.

After years of photographing and filming performances and rehearsals, Nel and I believe in the power of great dance documentation, but nothing compares to seeing Wendy Whelan perform live. She is captivating, enthralling, alluring -- I just can't describe how I feel when I watch her dance.

Ballet To The People hates reading program notes. She thinks a piece of theatre or music should speak to you without requiring homework beforehand. So it was a great relief that ODC/Dance's new Triangulating Euclid conveniently opened with the voice of book conservator Karen Zukor.

Tap is jazz, tap is Broadway, tap is culture blending at its best -- the history of tap is rich, the dancing electric. We should pay attention.

Maggie is a dancer and choreographer; she teaches at a performing arts high school. She'd known for some time one of her colleagues, a musician, was into her, but she didn't think she wanted him; he wasn't what she was looking for.

Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) currently presents an exhibition that focuses on the late work of the French artist Edgar Degas, known for h...

Dance has been through a rapid evolution over the last century, from neo-classical, to modern, to post-modern. In the last few decades it carved new i...

Naked is not a decision you should make lightly as a dancemaker, or, in my opinion, frequently. Dancing in the buff has serious implications that you can't avoid.

Modern dance lovers take heed: There are big doings this September at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in NYC, when the American Dance Guild (ADG) hosts their annual Performance Festival with more than 30 artists/choreographers featured over four nights.

The New York-based dance company Pilobolus released a behind-the-scenes trailer of it's new work, Automaton. It's a collaborative piece choreographed ...

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

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.

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...