SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) - When Jacek Krawczyk was growing up in then-communist Poland, the government was happy to train him in karate and acrobatics. He did not imagine that one day he would become a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Joyful, melancholy, heroic: Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” celebrates its 50th anniversary and the extraordinariness of ordinary movement. Joyful, melancholy, heroic: Paul Taylor’s ...

You hear it in contemporary pop songs like Missy Elliott’s “Work It” and Iconz’s “Get Crunked Up.” You see it in modern dance steps: the swirling movement of the torso, the stomping of the feet. It’s ...

SPENCER, Iowa -- Johnson Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Dianna Koppen says she's "really excited to see dancers like the ODC" in her school. "Where else are these kids going to see men and ...

When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...

“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 ...

From left, are daughter Emily Woss, teacher and dancer, and mother Jennifer Woss, Emerald Isle Step Dancers owner and instructor. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) From left, are Cierra Gaffney, Abby Gaffney, Emily ...

Head to any step aerobics class and you may feel like the instructor is speaking another language. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. But the good news is that most of the basic aerobic dance steps ...

There’s something endlessly exciting about the dance floor, where people meet, mingle, and sometimes show off in social dances like the tango, foxtrot, or jitterbug. Although ballrooms were once the ...

The experience of exile, whether literal or symbolic, is inevitably reflected in an individual’s body. Feeling cut off from one’s roots, or viewing yourself as a stranger in a foreign land, influences ...