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From left: Bass, Glass and Barnes. Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz, Courtesy Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host. Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass and Ira Glass. While one of these is not like the other, the uncanny combination has made the touring show Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host a runaway success. It’s the subject of the latest episode […]

On her wildly popular collaboration with radio host Ira Glass Barnes (right) with Ira Glass and Anna Bass in “Three Acts.” Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz, Courtesy “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.” When choreographer Monica Bill Barnes and longtime artistic partner Anna Bass debuted Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host at Carnegie Hall […]

The choreographer isn’t always trying to make you laugh—but you probably will.     This month the Joyce Theater presents a new series of shared concerts called FOCUS Dance (see “ New York Notebook”). One of the eight choreographers is Monica Bill Barnes, known for her funny, irreverent works, who performs Jan. 5 and 7. […]

There may not be an Academy Award for choreography, but there’s still outstanding dancing in the movies nominated for Oscars this year.

Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from September 2023.

Maybe even more than most industries, the dance field is obsessed with youth. We fawn over prodigies, we love to predict the next big thing. Yes, Dance Magazine itself is 100 percent guilty of this, with features like “25 to Watch” and On the Rise. But just because a performing career can be short doesn’t […]

While “subject to change” is a given these days, here’s what we’re most excited to catch if all goes as planned during the 2021–22 season. Who Was It For? Clarissa Dyas RJ Muna, Courtesy Joe Goode Performance Group Are you ready to revisit the Summer of Love? With Time of Change, the Joe Goode Performance […]

Advice is tricky. It can be presumptuous, judgmental. Medicinal. Obligatory. Revelatory? I don’t consider myself to be an advice giver, and yet I regularly share a morsel that one of my college professors gave me two decades ago: “When you find a teacher you admire, even if not an educator in the formal sense, go […]