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Douglas Nielsen came to dance late, at the age of 23. But he moved rapidly into the professional world, dancing with Gus Solomons, Pearl Lang, and Paul Sanasardo in New York, and Batsheva Dance Company in Israel. He created Douglas Nielsen Dances in 1982. He has been teaching modern dance around the world since 1973, […]

Do you have a sprained ankle that won’t heal? It’s not that rare. Studies have shown that 10 to 30 percent of sprains will have symptoms later. So what is a sprained ankle anyway? It’s the most common injury in all of sports and dancing. Dancing pushes your body to its limit. If you roll […]

    If you’ve seen the brilliant regalia and ferocious feet of today’s powwow dancers, you might wonder where these dances came from. Did the original women of America dress as colorfully and dance as vibrantly?      Long before Christopher Columbus, indigenous dance served religious and social functions among the many tribes that inhabited North […]

SEEDing Self Esteem Teenage girls study belly dance in Santa Fe When best friends Heather McDonald and Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler were 16, they signed up for a belly dancing workshop. It was an introduction to SEEEDS—Self-Esteem, Expression, Empowerment, and Education through Dance—for teenage girls at Myra Krien’s Pomegranate Studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The girls […]

Deaths Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006) The elder and taller of the brilliant Nicholas Brothers, Fayard was known as “having the best arms and hands in the business.” His fluid torso and eloquent hands wove poetry in counterpoint to the complex tapping. Watching this perfect tap duo, it was difficult to know where Harold (who died in […]

Fernando Bujones, dancer, 1955–2005. It was a short life and, in some ways, a life not completely fulfilled, for he died still a man of promise. Bujones’ story mingled the good luck that jump-started his career with the ill fortune that cast a pall over his later years as a dancer, leaving unfinished the final […]

Koresh Dance Company The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA November 10, 2006 Reviewed by Lewis Whittingtonr Michael Velez (center) and Jessica Daley (right) in “Hound Dog” from Ronen Koresh’s Looking Back: The Music of the ’40s and ’50s Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki, courtesy Koresh Dance Company For his first full-evening program at the Wilma Theater, artistic […]

Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater Henry Street Settlement, Harry De Jur Playhouse/Abrons Arts Center, NYC May 11–13, 2006 Reviewed by Emily Macel   Annabella Gonzalez describes her choreography as “Latin classicism,” an ambitious mix of European and American classical music with the Latino dance styles of tango, salsa, and merengue. Her company’s 30th-anniversary concert, “Treinta,” showcased […]