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I had just come back from Russia when I saw American Ballet Theatre’s new production of Onegin. While Cranko’s heart-wrenching ballet is performed often in Europe and Canada, this was the first time in years that New Yorkers got to see it. Santo Loquasto’s sumptuous sets of birch trees and chandeliers (courtesy National Ballet of […]

Two jazz-loving institutions join forces.     Masashi Mishiro teaches at the 2009 Jazz Dance World Congress. Photo by Pedro Brenner, Courtesy Giordano. “Jazz was always a melting pot,” says Nan Giordano, artistic director of the Jazz Dance World Congress. “It incorporates the roots and rhythms of African dance, the strong core of ballet, the […]

Mind Games Where is the mind located? Most scientists would point to the brain. But ask a dancer or choreographer, and they might tell you that thought is a whole-body process. The unpredictable and ever-probing Miguel Gutierrez, who is in residence this month at University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, has been asking such questions about the nature […]

While Paula Abdul’s television show Live to Dance died an early death after its only season, audience favorites such as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars, and sitcoms like Glee that feature dance, continue to attract millions of viewers. Dance seems to be part of the zeitgeist now (witness Natalie […]

In January 2001, Dance Magazine published our first “25 to Watch.” From the recommendations of our esteemed writers, we chose 25 “dancers, choreographers, troupes, and trends we’ll be watching in 2001 and years to come.” Now, 10 years later, we’ve turned the tables on a select group of those we’ve singled out over the years. […]

    Living History When Lea Kiddle, 15, learned sections of Anna Sokolow’s 1955 masterpiece Rooms for a performance last winter with Nacre, a dance company based in Albany, NY, she learned much more than choreography. “With Nacre, there’s a lot of history—as well as learning the piece, you’re learning about the choreographer and who […]

      This month a new cast of young dancers wants audiences to remember their names in Fame, a remake of the classic film about the lives of students at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City.   The award-winning original revealed the raw ambition and vulnerability of teenagers trying to […]

These days you can’t swing a sequined dress without hitting a dance reality TV show. Every major network has its angle on them: from contestants competing weekly in front of a live audience, to behind-the-scenes looks at the lives of commercial dancers trying to make the cut, to “celebrities” paired with professionals fox-trotting their way […]