Photo: Kyle Froman   Her audition hasn’t started yet, but Karole Armitage already has a feeling about which dancers she’s going to hire. “I can pretty much tell as soon as they arrive,” she says. “Of course, you discover more by actually watching them dance. But it’s amazing. You see so much just from […]

Earth Dancing Every year the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers hold a rousing powwow on the Lower East Side. A New York troupe founded in 1963 by a group of Native Americans, the Thunderbird dancers represent a variety of nations descended from Mohawk, Hopi, Winnebago, and San Blas peoples. They are not professional, but they’ve handed […]