In a bare Manhattan studio last week ten very serious young women worked like demons night & day, flinging themselves into the air, jumping frogwise, stomping, crouching, twisting their torsos. All ...

A product of S.F.'s Golden Age of modern dance, Judy Job went on to become a beloved Oakland tai chi teacher who kept ...

“Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955” opens at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and dance performances by the Jose Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and ...

Peter Sparling will lead CTAC ballet’s Graham100 celebration with performances, school programs and a summer exhibit honoring ...

Her connection to the great modern dancer lasted a lifetime, from studying with her as a child to leading the Martha Graham Dance Company as an artistic director. Linda Hodes in 1962, performing in ...

Sean Dorsey creates stages for trans and queer performing artists. Transgender modern dancer Sean Dorsey was irresistibly drawn to San Francisco with its history of trans and queer culture. But when ...

In the mid-1950s, a Juilliard-trained dancer who had studied with the famed choreographer Martha Graham was putting the finishing touches on a small troupe in her new home, Israel. Rena Gluck’s ...

On a blazing summer evening near the shores of Onion Creek, in Austin, a tour guide leads a group of theatergoers and me to the water’s edge, where meditative music plays from a large speaker. He asks ...

Timothée Chalamet may think ballet is dead, but these Black women have used their talent and artistry to keep Alvin Ailey's ...

She was an actress and choreographer who moved between ballet, modern dance, film, and television. Carmen de Lavallade, the brilliant and vibrant modern dancer and choreographer, known for her ...

Twyla Tharp’s ballet How Near Heaven, set to the music of Benjamin Britten, was danced in 1995 by one of the nation’s premier companies, American Ballet Theater. The ballet’s name comes from an Emily ...

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