DANCE NEWS COVERAGE

Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami to Host THE BEST OF CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE Gala, 5/25

Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami and Artistic Director, Pedro Pablo Peña, present 'The Best of the Classical Repertoire Gala' on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Millepied, Wheeldon and Martins - A Mixed Bag for City Ballet

Three European choreographers present three very different works as part of the New York City Ballet's American Music Festival. (more...)

5th Annual Bay Area Praise Dance Festival Runs 6/29-30

Ross Dance Company has announced an inspiring weekend encompassing a dynamic praise dance conference and culminating with the 5th Annual Bay Area Praise Dance Festival titled, A New Breed of Worship. Witness praise dancers move and inspire diverse audiences through all dance genres as they creatively portray the Gospel. Viewers will develop a natural affinity with the messages ministered and leave thirsting for more visual stimulation. The Oakland Post states, 'Leaping in faith, twirling in submission, dancers put on a live show of worship, and the spirit was undeniably present.' Join Ross and others to experience genuine hearts that truly depict unconditional love when worshiping. (more...)

Philadanco founder, Joan Myers Brown, Featured in New Book

The Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) founder Joan Myers Brown will be featured in a student-produced book, "Leading Healthy Change in Our Communities 2013. The book, written and illustrated by Healthy NewsWorks student journalists, profiles a dozen prominent leaders who have something important to say about health and are giving back to the community. (more...)

Cruise Dreams Announces Square Dance Group Cruise with Jay Krebs

For people who are passionate about square dancing but like their vacations affordable and fun-filled, here's a way to combine both. Jay Krebs, 31-year veteran caller, takes his smooth baritone voice aboard the Brilliance of the Seas in 2014 group cruise with many of the dancers who've enjoyed his calling over the last 31 years. (more...)

SalsaCrazy.com Announces Dance Cruise to the Caribbean, 1/19

SalsaCrazy.com (http://www.SalsaCrazy.com), an extremely popular and long lived online salsa resource for worldwide salsa dance enthusiasts, is excited to announce the Salsa and Bachata Dance Cruise 2014. The cruise is an amazing seven day adventure from January 19th through the 26th that takes lucky dancers, salseros and bachateros, to several of the most gorgeous ports in the Southern Caribbean. (more...)

Eifman Ballet's RODIN Makes Toronto Premiere Tonight

The Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg is set to make their Toronto debut with their latest, RODIN, a new ballet by Boris Eifman inspired by the remarkable life and art of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. RDOIN will play the Sony Centre for The Performing Arts from tonight, May 23-25 at 7:30PM. (more...)

Striding Lion Presents Multi-Media Dance Theater Show DADA GERT, Now thru 5/31

Striding Lion Performance Group presents 'Dada Gert,' a multi-media dance theater performance inspired by the life and work of Valeska Gert, a renegade dance-theater-film-cabaret artist whose punk-like 'dance satires' alternately challenged and thrilled audiences in Weimar-era Berlin, conceived and choreographed by Annie Arnoult Beserra. The show runs one hour with no intermission. (more...)

Dance Theatre of Tennessee Set for St. Louis and Philippines Festivals, Summer 2013

Fresh from a successful third season, Dance Theatre of Tennessee (DTT) is poised to add another milestone in its young and exciting history. DTT has been invited to participate in two prestigious dance festivals this spring and summer - one in St. Louis, Missouri and one in Manila, Philippines. (more...)

TPAC to Feature Artists-in-Residence in 2013 Work & Show Festival, Beg. 6/6

In its 17th (and final) season, the BMCC Tribeca PAC's Artists-in-Residence (AIR) hallmark program enables four to eight emerging and established artists-writers, dancers, and composers-to create and develop new work over the course of one year. We are celebrating this tremendous program with a final presentation that is indicative of the cutting-edge work this program has strived to present. The artists have been chosen by a panel of established performing arts professionals from some of the city's highest regarded organizations such as LaMama, Here ARTS, Abrams Arts Center, The New York State Council on the Arts, River to River, and Dance New Amsterdam. The artistic disciplines the artists come form are dance, multimedia, music, and theater. (more...)

BHP Billiton supports Bangarra's 2013 Community Outreach Program

Bangarra Dance Theatre will take to the Sydney Opera House stage next month with Blak , an exciting new, physically dynamic work by Artistic Director Stephen Page and choreographer/dancer Daniel Riley McKinley. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Pauline Koner, American Original

On Friday, May 17, 2015, choreographers, dancers, and dance enthusiasts-old and young-gathered together at the 92nd Street Y to remember the elegant maverick of modern dance, Pauline Koner. The afternoon featured four reconstructions of Koner's choreography, along with a 1949 video of her dancing To complete the celebration, Koner's students, dancers, music composers, and tour managers spoke briefly about her life and the wisdom she passed down to them. (more...)

BWW Blog: Kathryn Mowat Murphy - After Show Blues

I have a cat, and his name is Jazz. If I don't pay any attention to Jazz, he begins to meow. This is a simple animalistic act to show he needs my attention. We, being performers, are very similar. If we don't get any attention, we begin to meow. Not out loud, but deep in our soul. We start to pine and, bit by bit, lose our light. We eventually lie down and put our paws over our eyes and fret. (more...)

ABT Dancer Craig Salstein Founds INTERMEZZO, a New Ballet Company

Craig Salstein, soloist with American Ballet Theatre, has created Intermezzo, a new ballet company. (more...)

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE, Estonian National Ballet and More Set for Napa Valley Opera House, June 2013

The Napa Valley Opera House yesterday announced the following schedule of performances taking place throughout the month of June. (more...)

2013 Dance Teacher Web Live Conference and Expo Presents All-Star Cast of Master Dance Teachers, 7/26

Dance Teacher Web Live Conference & Expo is proud to present and All-Star lineup of master dance teachers that will make this year's event the best one to date. (more...)

SAFEhouse to Kick Off SPF6, Aug 14

SAFEhouse, a non-profit organization working to incubate new performing artists through residencies, workshops, and performance opportunities, is proud to announce its sixth annual Summer Performance Festival, SPF6, featuring eight emerging dance artists. SPF6 runs from Wednesday, August 14 to Sunday, August 18, 2013 at ODC Theater in San Francisco. (more...)

Hubbard Street Adds 8th and Final Performance to DANC(E)VOLVE, Running 6/6-16

Responding to popular demand, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announces the addition of an eighth performance during its danc(e)volve: New Works Festival, June 6-16, 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA, 220 East Chicago Avenue in Chicago). (more...)

Hubbard Street to Kick Off DANC(E)VOLVE: NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, 6/6

The highly acclaimed contemporary dance companies Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Hubbard Street 2 return to MCA Stage for the second danc(e)volve: New Works Festival. They perform new works created by rising choreographers within the company and former main company member Robyn Mineko Williams. The two-week long festival features seven new works under consideration to become a part of Hubbard Street's active repertoire. (more...)

Jacqueline Ann Holloway and Robert Westley Join Salon/Sanctuary's ON POINT, 6/3

Actor/sword fighters Jacqueline Ann Holloway and Robert Westley will be joining NYCB dancers Jared Angle and Megan LeCrone and members of the Sebastians Chamber Orchestra for On Point: From Duel to Pas de Deux, to be presented by Salon/Sanctuary Concerts. An exploration of the shared origins of sword fighting and ballet, On Point will be presented on Monday June 3rd at The Liederkranz Club at 7:00PM. Musical selections will include Heinrich Ignaz von Biber (1644 - 1704)Battaglia a 10 in D Major; Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620 - 1680) Balletto for Strings and Continuo in G 'Die Fechtschule' and GF Handel (1685 - 1759), Sonata in B-flat, Op. 2, No. 3, HWV 388. (more...)

Pivot Multi-Arts Festival is Presented, 6/6 - 6/22

Pivot Arts launches a new celebration of innovative theater, music and dance in unique and often historic spaces from June 6 – 22, 2013 throughout Chicago's Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. The inaugural PIVOT MULTI-ARTS FESTIVAL answers the City's call for a reinvigorated Uptown Entertainment District by uniting artists, businesses and local organizations around multidisciplinary “pop-up” performances occurring in a former Vaudeville Theater, an at-one-time Charlie Chaplin film studio and other historic spaces throughout these communities. Tickets are now on sale, with a range of free events and no more than $15 per event. To purchase tickets, and for complete festival information, visit www.pivotarts.org/festival or call 773-609-0782. (more...)

BAM Announces 34 Events in Opera, Theater, Music and Dance for 2013 Next Wave Festival!

Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, today announced programming for the 2013 Next Wave Festival. The festival runs from September 17 through December 22 and comprises opera, theater, music, and dance productions in the institution's three mainstage venues: the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, the BAM Harvey Theater, and the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Blue Lapis Light's Encore Engagement of HEAVEN-EARTH-ONE is Heavenly

It's been said that good news is worth repeating. I guess that adage can be modified for the arts as well. A masterpiece is worth repeating, and thankfully Blue Lapis Light has decided to reprise their stunning, site specific dance piece Heaven-Earth-One a mere seven months after its last production. When I originally saw Heaven-Earth-One back in September, I was awed by the beauty of the site specific dance piece but a bit shocked and puzzled by the relatively sparse audience. This time around, the show is just as beautiful and haunting, and it's nice to see that the show is now reaching a much larger audience. (more...)

B-Boy 'Lil Rock' Wins Red Bull BC One Las Vegas Cypher

Sin City was set afire on Saturday night as the best b-boys from the West Coast went head to head in a fierce battle during the Red Bull BC One Cypher under the lighted canopy at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas. The open-air location allowed more than 2,000 spectators to be treated to a night of intense battles, and ultimately, the Red Bull BC One judges Neguin (Red Bull BC One All Star), Teknyc (Skill Methodz Crew) and Floor Rock (Rock Skittles) crowned Lil Rock as the Las Vegas regional champion. (more...)

National Tap Dance Celebration 2013 Set for Music Hall at Fair Park, Now thru 5/25

The Dance Council of North Texas presents its National Tap Dance Celebration 2013, today, May 21 - 25, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. at Music Hall, Fair Park, 909 1st Ave., Dallas, Texas. It's free! (more...)