Dance News

Center Repertory Company's production of "Sweet Charity," led by Molly Bell's take-no-prisoners performance in the title role, is a great musical -- perhaps the best ever to play at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center.

A CHOREOGRAPHER who danced for the Queen is championing an unlikely combination of Welsh clog dancing and Brazilian martial arts.

Broadway dancer-choreographer Noah Racey premieres his new show Pulse , staged by two-time Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun , which opens May 23 at Florida's Asolo Repertory Theatre.

Song and dance - and especially tap dance - supply the material for Pulse , which is receiving its premiere at the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

An El Paso man is trying to make it big as he makes it to the second round of the Fox hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance." Donovan Gibbs passed the first round in Austin, and he is one of 150 people left vying for the title of best dancer and a $100,000 prize.

Give it a couple more years, and Burlington's 12-year-old Spielpalast Cabaret will have lasted as long as the Weimar Republic whose popular theater inspired it.

Kelrik's musical version of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" would make Disney proud.

The annual Blurred Borders Dance Festival, to be held at Saville Theatre at San Diego City College on Friday and Saturday, will showcase performances from Regina Klenjoski of Los Angeles, Ericka Aisa Moore of San Diego's Eveoke Dance Theatre and the Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, also from San Diego.

There is nothing quite like sitting in a theatre, not knowing what is about to be shown: one might liken this to opening presents - some are bright and sparkly, some are a bit odd and others might as well be thrown in the bin.

The stage is set for a Milford Haven dance group, which qualified for the streetdance world championships in Denmark this autumn.

Artists for World Peace presents the 2nd Annual Dance for Peace at The Kate, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook , on Saturday, June 29, at 8 p.m. Inspired by the International Peace Belt and featuring some of the most gifted dancers and musicians from New York, Connecticut, Boston and Providence, this extraordinary performance benefits the scholarship ... (more)

As the debate gathers around the current imbalance between male and female choreographers, the names of pioneering women such as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bronislava Nijinska are regularly invoked to recall a golden age of female creativity and power.

The problem of the skirt - at least the long, voluminous skirt, as demonstrated in Nicole Roerick 's Morose Beauty - is one of access.

Lauren Putty White has been named the winner of the 2013-2014 Ellen Forman Memorial Award.

"Keeping it real" has become an elusive goal for hip-hop artists, whose art is increasingly threatened by mainstream acceptance.

Dance, for Madison, is an art form whose choreography is based on the symptoms of the Ambler artist's neurological disease.

Down Home and Saria Idana have announced that Homeless in Homeland will have its UK/International premiere at Brighton Fringe, in Brighton, UK with 3 shows May 27th, 28th, and 29th, 2013.

Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught duets in a lobby restroom at the Gershwin Hotel.

Youngsters at Garton-on-the-Wolds Primary School are ready to travel back in time for their performance at a vintage fair.

Famed for her long, limber legs, flaming auburn hair and uncompromising standards of excellence, Sylvie Guillem is the closest thing the dance world has to a rock star.