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Creating dance as a medium for eliminating taboos has been cathartic for radical, riveting Montreal-based dancer and choreographer Daina Ashbee. Her highly physical, personal work dealing with topics such as female sexuality, anorexia, trauma, loss, the menstrual cycle and Indigenous women has garnered accolades: At the prestigious 2016 Prix de la Danse Montreéal, she received […]

In 2017, Sam Pinkleton’s choreography appeared on three Broadway stages simultaneously: in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Amélie and the play Significant Other. But until recently, he didn’t even feel comfortable calling himself a choreographer. Pinkleton, 30, studied directing at New York University, where his relentless enthusiasm and “willingness to jump off […]

MK Abadoo is an unapologetic activist. The dances she creates speak her truth to power. Her choreography offers a socially conscious take on torn-from-the-headlines issues of racial, social and gender equity. Drawn to community-based work, Abadoo fuses postmodernist aesthetics with fleet-footed and full-bodied West African forms—she spent a Fulbright year in Ghana—and the nonchalant swagger […]

Watching Connie Shiau dance feels uncannily similar to watching a cat attack its prey. She’ll stealthily draw out a movement, building suspension, then charge into the next phrase so fast that you never even see how she got from point A to B. But this Abraham.In.Motion dancer offers much more than just playful musicality. Although […]

Not many students get the opportunity to perform a variation onstage with the Mariinsky Ballet. But in April 2016, when May Nagahisa was just 15 and training at Monaco’s Princess Grace Academy, the Japanese prodigy was invited to perform the Manu dance in La Bayadère with the venerable Russian company—an unprecedented honor for a non-Vaganova […]

There are many ways in which to be a great dancer, but there’s no denying that precocious virtuosity is often the most eye-catching. For Cesar Corrales, his fail-safe talent for effortlessly explosive jumps, plus pirouettes that could seemingly spin for infinity (but which stop at exactly the moment of his command), have marked out the […]

Named for the road-sign warning, slowdanger, unlike its moniker’s admonition, has been anything but cautious in taking Pittsburgh by storm. Founded in 2014 by Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who met while studying dance at Point Park University, the multidisciplinary duo have become known for their atmospheric, multimedia experimental dance works. Their cerebral approach and […]

Annie Arnoult and her Open Dance Project invited audiences inside Woody Guthrie’s world in ‘Bout a Stranger, evoking the Dust Bowl era through movement, song, theater and set design for a visceral experience of the great American songwriter’s life. Arnoult’s opus unfolded through vignettes occurring in makeshift kitchens, corridors and tiny stages that enveloped the […]