It isn’t every day—or year, or even decade—that a dedicated choreography incubator opens its doors. As founding executive/artistic director at the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron, Christy Bolingbroke says, “I have an opportunity to locate dance in a research and development environment, and reinforce the fact that what a choreographer does […]

The breadth of support the New York City dance community receives from The Harkness Foundation for Dance is staggering: over $30 million to more than 560 organizations, from creators and presenters to education and dance medicine programs. The Foundation recently pledged to give $1 million each to Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, New […]

Gilda Squire got her first lessons in branding at the investment firm Goldman Sachs. Today she manages ballet’s most visible star: Misty Copeland. Squire’s approach to Copeland’s endorsements and outside commitments, carefully crafted with the ballerina, has established a new professional framework for dancers, one that straddles a range of media platforms and opportunities. After […]

More than just a company or a studio space, Gibney Dance provides a hub for New York City’s dance artists, offering a wide array of resources: • choreographic mentorship • performance series • space grants and rentals • open classes and training programs • financial and digital technology advice • leadership seminars • town-hall–style gatherings […]

Go to almost any contemporary dance performance in the U.S. and you’ll see the influence of Ohad Naharin. Since taking the helm of Batsheva Dance Company in 1990, Naharin has transformed the group into a global force in dance. His contagious movement practice, Gaga, has spread far and wide, changing the way many choreographers think […]

Former arts lobbyist Amy Fitterer is all about diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity—and making Dance/USA relevant for today’s climate. Since assuming leadership in 2011, Fitterer has worked to create programs that genuinely serve the needs of today’s dance world. She’s established the Institute for Leadership Training for emerging dance leaders, which has been enormously successful […]

If you had a dollar for every cup of coffee spilt over an Alastair Macaulay review, you could put a down payment on a Brooklyn studio. The British-born Macaulay became The New York Times‘ chief dance critic in 2007. Since then his reviews, often personal in tone, filled with reminiscences as well as dance history, […]

In the last five years, Alexei Ratmansky has made seventeen ballets for nine different companies in five countries. These include an abstract ballet set to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, an interpretation of Plato’s Symposium set to Leonard Bernstein, reconstructions of three Petipa ballets based early twentieth-century notations, a re-imagined Baiser de la Fée, and […]