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Fang-Yi Sheu Born in Taiwan, lives in NYC and Taiwan Guest artist, Martha Graham Dance Company; co-artistic director, LAFA Interviewed by Emily Macel When I was 11, I started studying a Taiwanese-style folk dance. I was not very good with grades in school. I wanted to hide in the corner until I found dance. Ross […]

Too often choreography is thought of as a man’s job. While that assumption may be more true of ballet than modern dance, more and more women in both categories are choreographing these days—and their ranks are overflowing. To set the record straight, Dance Magazine is focusing this year’s Choreography Issue exclusively on women. We talked […]

In today’s pressure-cooker world, where getting a leg up on a career path can begin as early as kindergarten, those choosing dance as a calling are, for the most part, confronted with even harsher realities. Earning a living dictated by their bodies, dancers have an extremely small window for success—financial or otherwise. And while professional […]

Going West Julianne Kepley, who spent eight years with Atlanta Ballet and subsequently joined Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet in 2002, moved on this past summer to become a soloist with San Francisco Ballet—just in time to be part of the company’s 75th- anniversary celebrations. She is a ballerina who instantly puts the audience at ease, thanks […]

There are several Alisan Porters. There’s the corkscrew-haired moppet who played the title role in the 1991 John Hughes film Curly Sue.  There’s the kohl-eyed rocker who fronts her own band, the Alisan Porter Project. There’s the belter who wowed L.A. theater critics in the musical The Ten Commandments. But the Alisan Porter who was […]

Psychologists looking for signs of sibling rivalry in tap dancers Joseph and Josette Wiggan will be decidedly disappointed. The brother and sister phenoms, now 19 and 22, began tapping 10 years ago and have been, for most of their performing lives, metaphorically joined at the hip. The two spent seven years dancing with Los Angeles-based […]

Feng-Yi Sheu Taking Up the Mantle of Martha “Go at your audience with a whip,” Louis Horst used to tell Martha Graham. When the Martha Graham Dance Company came to City Center last April, its second New York season since winning back the rights to its own repertory, the whip was in one body: Fang-Yi […]

Energy oozes from the stage as a gaggle of dancers executes heart-stopping head-spins, swaggering b-boy moves, and cool popping machinations to the scratching sounds of DJ Wish, AKA, Randy Bernal. When red-headed Alison Faulk bursts onto the scene and morphs from balletic arabesques in sneakers to high-octane hip hop, she also talks—in voice-over narration—about growing […]