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The American Dance Guild ADG PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL Returns This December Photo by A.A. Cristi - October 28, 2022

The American Dance Guild will return to live performance with their yearly ADG PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, their first live production since the Covid pandemic.  ...

The CUNY Dance Initiative & The Gerald W. Lynch Theater to Present Joshua Beamish/MOV Photo by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 11, 2022

The CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College will present the New York return of Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, on Saturday April 23, 2022, at 8:00pm. The Gerald W. Lynch Theater is located 524 W. 59th Street, NYC (between 10th & 11th Avenues). ...

Helen Simoneau Danse Returns To Dance Post-Pandemic With A New Work, Residencies, and Photo by A.A. Cristi - November 02, 2021

Helen Simoneau Danse continues a return to dance after the pandemic with a full fall 2021 schedule, including creation residencies to develop new work, open movement classes, work-in-progress sessions, performances, and more. ...

Helen Simoneau Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship Photo by A.A. Cristi - April 14, 2021

The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship to choreographer Helen Simoneau, who serves as artistic director of Helen Simoneau Dance....

New Global Free Film Series FILMS.DANCE Announces Launch Photo by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 11, 2021

The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has teamed up with two of Los Angeles’ foremost cultural organizations—the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts—to launch Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global free film series....

D.C.'s Chamber Dance Project Reaches Beyond The Stage For A World Premiere Dance Film Photo by A.A. Cristi - August 28, 2020

Chamber Dance Project, Washington's premier contemporary ballet company, presents New Works 2020 (& beyond). Chamber Dance Project reaches beyond the stage-and the expected-to present virtual performance events that showcase our artists with exciting new dimensions of innovation and intimacy. ...

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Presents VIRTUAL CROSSCURRENT CHOREOGRAPHIC FESTIVAL Photo by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 11, 2020

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has announced the Virtual CrossCurrent Choreographic Festival, in collaboration with Flushing Town Hall, on Friday, June 26, 2020, 7pm-8:15pm EDT and Friday, July 3, 2020, 7pm-8:15pm EDT....

VIDEO: Shanghai Ballet Dancers Rehearse Wearing Face Masks Photo by Stephi Wild - May 04, 2020

Shanghai Ballet Dancers are continuing to rehearse amidst the pandemic, wearing face masks as they dance....

Shen Wei To Receive 2020 Scripps ADF Award Photo by Stephi Wild - December 03, 2019

The American Dance Festival (ADF) will present the 2020 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement to acclaimed choreographer Shen Wei. Established in 1981 by Samuel H. Scripps, the annual award honors choreographers who have dedicated their lives and talent to the creation of modern dance. Shen Wei will be in residence at ADF during the 2020 season working on his latest ADF commission set on ADF students. ADF Director Emeritus Charles L. Reinhart will present the ...

Shanghai Ballet and China Arts Presents GRAND SWAN LAKE at Lincoln Center Photo by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 26, 2019

Shanghai Ballet and China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. present Derek Deane's Grand Swan Lake from January 17-19, 2020 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC. Tickets are $36-$176, and will be available online atDavidHKochTheater.com, by phone at 212-496-0600, or by visiting the David H. Koch Theater Box Office at 20 Lincoln Center Plaza. Performances: Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturday and Sunday at 1pm....

National Dance Institute Launches NDI Collaborative for Teaching & Learning Photo by Julie Musbach - October 24, 2019

National Dance Institute (NDI) today announced the NDI Collaborative for Teaching & Learning, a professional development program for teaching artists, educators and organizations committed to dance education and enriching children's lives through the arts....

China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. and Shanghai Ballet Present SWAN LAKE Photo by Julie Musbach - September 30, 2019

Shanghai Ballet and China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd.presentDerek Deane's Grand Swan Lake from January 17-19, 2020at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC. ...

Choreographers Selected For 2019 ABT Incubator Photo by Julie Musbach - September 30, 2019

Choreographers Gabrielle Lamb and Laura O'Malley, along with American Ballet Theatre dancers Claire Davison, Zhong-Jing Fang and Sung Woo Han, have been selected to create work for the 2019 ABT Incubator, a two-week choreographic workshop providing a focused lab to inspire new choreographic voices and generate ideas for the creation of new work. Directed by ABT Principal Dancer David Hallberg, ABT Incubator will be held October 29–November 9, 2019 at ABT's New York studios....

NYCBallet Announces 2019 Fall Fashion Gala Photo by Julie Musbach - June 10, 2019

On September 26, 2019 New York City Ballet will present its annual Fall Fashion Gala, celebrating choreography and costume design with two world premiere works showcasing some of today's most exciting artists from the worlds of dance and fashion....

MICHAEL MAO DANCE Begins 26th Year with a Program of Major Mao Dances Photo by Sarah Hookey - May 15, 2019

MICHAEL MAO DANCE begins its 26th year with a program of major Mao dances, including 1994-DSCH, along with other works to music by Kurt Weill, and Taiko drumming, May 24 & 25 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street....

NDI Celebrates Jacques' Art Nest XIX: The New Masters: 21st Century Choreographers Photo by Stephi Wild - April 24, 2019

National Dance Institute (NDI), the non-profit arts education organization that has transformed the lives of millions of public school children through the arts, will host Jacques' Art Nest XIX: The New Masters: 21st Century Choreographers on Monday, May 13th at the NDI Center in Harlem. Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton, In the Heights) and Jacqulyn Buglisi (Buglisi Dance Theatre) will take center stage in this next installment of Jacques' Art Nest. Moderated by choreographer Christopher d'Amboise,...

Ballet Hispanico 2019's Season At The Joyce Theater Includes Two World Premieres and Photo by Stephi Wild - January 29, 2019

Ballet Hispánico, America's leading Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater with two world premieres from March 26-31, 2019. Tickets start at $10 and are available for purchase in person at The Joyce Theater Box Office by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at www.Joyce.org....

Martha Graham Dance Company Presents NEW@Graham With Maxine Doyle And Bobbi Jene Smit Photo by Julie Musbach - November 27, 2018

The Martha Graham Dance Company's NEW@Graham series offers a look inside the creative process of new works commissioned by the Company. On December 18 and 19, the Company will present a work-in-progress showing of choreographers Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith's collaborative work for the Company, followed by a conversation with the artists. NEW@Graham will take place on Tuesday, December 18, and Wednesday, December 19, at 7pm, at the Martha Graham Studio Theater....

Boston Dance Theater Comes to The ICA Photo by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2018

Gear up for a livewire inaugural season. . . Boston Dance Theater (BDT) takes to the local stage for the first time this November 30 and December 1, 2018 at 8PM at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), presented by World Music/ CRASHarts. Free pre performance talks with Boston Dance Alliance Executive Director Debra Cash 30 minutes prior to curtain in the ICA Common Room. Free post performance Q&A with the artists Friday, November 30. Tickets available for $36/ $32 (World Music/ CRASHarts mem...

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company To Join Germany/Luxembourg Choreographer Hannah Ma In Works Photo by Stephi Wild - October 12, 2018

Nai-Ni Chen opened her 2019 season with a theme of collaboration and outreach, especially with other diverse, immigrant women choreographers from all over the world. On October 22, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will conduct a weeklong residency and choreographic exchange with Germany's HannahMaDance headed by Luxembourg/Trier based choreographer Hannah Ma. During the residency, Nai-Ni Chen will be developing a new work using the music of Chinese Bamboo Rap (Kuaiban), Chinese Martial Art and Hip-Ho...

BWW Interview: ZJ Fang, the Chinese Soloist In ABT: How Injury Gave Me A Second Chanc Photo by Qianqian Xing - September 25, 2018

Zhong-Jing Fang was promoted to soloist at the American Ballet Theatre in 2018, the first Chinese ballerina to be promoted to soloist since Yan Chen in 1993. Almost ten years ago, she tore her posterior tibial tendon in her right foot during a rehearsal. Doctors told her that the chances of her returning to the stage were extremely slim....

Paola Hartley, Karl Condon And Ilya Kozadayev and More Will Be On Faculty For Shrevep Photo by A.A. Cristi - July 09, 2018

ZHONG-JING FANG, soloist of American Ballet Theatre, PAOLA HARTLEY, former principal dancer of Ballet Arizona, KARL CONDON, former principal dancer of the Boston Ballet, and ILYA KOZADAYEV, former soloist of the Houston Ballet will be on the Shreveport Dance Academy's Summer Intensive to be held in Shreveport, Louisiana.   Zhong-Jing Fang and Paola Hartley will be on the faculty from July 23-27, 2018, and Karl Condon and  Ilya Kozadayev will be on the faculty from July 30-August 3, 2018.  ...




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