Choreographer Bob Fosse’s early years in Chicago before hitting it big on Broadway. Interviews with Columbia College Dance Center founder Shirley Mordine, “Hiplet” creator Homer Hans Bryant and the ...

American Contemporary Ballet examines the evolution of the pas de deux, aka the quintessential dance duet What distinguishes each of the six pas de deux? And do they have any similarities? The ...

That’s the feeling among a group of local dance advocates who’ve set their sights on unearthing a forgotten piece of Chicago’s legacy. They’re setting the stage for an archive that could one day ...

The arc of dance: Alvin Ailey, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1955, and, seven years later, by Jack Mitchell. L: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale ...

Dance, like all performing arts, is ephemeral. In the words of Dana Reitz, a celebrated contemporary performer, choreographer and longtime dance faculty member at Bennington College, “You move through ...

Haotian Liu, a second year PhD student in Temple's dance department, prepares to dance a duet, ''Dig,'' choreographed by Temple alumnus Terry Beck. The performance kicked off Temple's programming ...

With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir. Carolyn Brown in 1966. Early on, she and Merce ...

Some historic buildings just aren’t worth preserving, and it turns out the Avalon Ballroom, at the corner of Stewart and Boren, is one of them. It is a drab-looking Seattle place, a grayish, two-story ...

Nestled between a nail salon and a strip of shabby pawn shops, Canada’s only dance museum sits on the third floor of a tawny-brick building on Toronto’s Church Street. There’s no sign out front to ...

Some of the people at the forefront of growing Anchorage’s dance community, through ballet and other Western forms of dance, were honored during an event at the Anchorage Museum on Friday. Seventeen ...