For Susan Avery, founding the New York Pacemakers senior dance team fulfilled a lifelong dream. As a child, she’d always wanted to dance, though tight family finances kept her from taking lessons. When she became a journalist, her hunger for dance still hadn’t diminished. “I started taking lessons everywhere I could. Tap, salsa, African, ballet, […]

Hadestown is Afra Hines’ eighth Broadway musical, so she thought she knew what to expect—until she had a private rehearsal with the choreographer, David Neumann. Preparing her to be Amber Gray’s understudy, he said, “You don’t have to do exactly what Amber’s doing—I want it to feel comfortable on your body.” That was new. “A […]