Creative costumes are like moving sculptures, seamlessly blending with sets and lighting to help dancers and choreographers bring another world to life onstage. But they can bring challenges, too. Physical therapist Giovanna Salerno, PT, DPT, OCS, says that she’s worked with several patients whose ailments can be traced to costumes. “You’re having to perform and […]

“New York is such a circus,” Phyllis Lamhut told us in the February 1975 issue of Dance Magazine. “It’s got bad air, but great energy.”

In the April 1968 issue of Dance Magazine, we took a deep dive into the work of Alwin Nikolais. Imago (1963). Photo by Sosenko, Courtesy DM Archives Viewing technique as a means to an end, Nikolais did not ask his dancers to embody characters or emote, but to simply dance as part of the onstage […]