This arts discipline has been divided into four specialties: commercial dance, concert dance, hip-hop and world/cultural dance. Semifinalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of dance ...

Larissa Humiston was walking through a New York City museum several years ago when an idea of blending visual art and dance began to take shape in her mind. Not in the literal sense: No “Mona Lisa” ...

Jodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park. By Brian Seibert Reporting from Brooklyn and New Windsor, N.Y. Dance is ...

“The arts,” a student of mine recently wrote in a paper, “unite us in collective belief and action.” My response as a been-there, done-that professor of art was to pooh-pooh his naïveté. Art as a ...

Since New York choreographer Trisha Brown first started experimenting with time, space, gravity and the movement potential of the human body in the 1960s, she has never stopped astounding audiences ...

In the world of dance, keeping things fresh after 45 years can seem impossible. But that’s exactly what Core Dance keeps doing. The Atlanta-based, award-winning contemporary dance organization ...

Alexandra Light (née Farber) was one of the millions of Americans to make a career change during the Great Resignation. Light is looking to transition from a full-time dancer to a full-time ...

The following 126 students have been nominated for the 2025 Artist of the Year in dance. The nominees are listed below with an endorsement from their nominating teacher. When available, we have also ...

One of Edgar Degas’ iconic “Little Dancer” sculptures broke the artist’s auction record Thursday when it sold for $41.6 million from the collection of the late Anne Bass, the former wife of an oil ...

They were some of the strangest creatures ever to cavort upon a stage, those ballerinas in George Balanchine’s 1946 ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged ...

Historically, purple has not been a democratic color. It rarely occurs in nature, so when people in the eastern Mediterranean discovered a purple dye 3,500-years-ago by crushing thousands of sea ...