Performances in N.Y.C. Joyful, melancholy, heroic: Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” celebrates its 50th anniversary and the extraordinariness of ordinary movement. Joyful, melancholy, heroic: Paul Taylor’s ...

Illinois-born Fuller became all the rage in Paris in the 1890s with her "Serpentine Dance," with flowing silks and colored lighting. She wrote her autobiography, in French, in 1908. With her husband, ...

The experience of exile, whether literal or symbolic, is inevitably reflected in an individual’s body. Feeling cut off from one’s roots, or viewing yourself as a stranger in a foreign land, influences ...

Ballet, the basis for all of Western theatrical dance, is a theatrical performance, using elements from a rich tapestry of traditional movements. Most ballets consist of dancing and music only, ...

When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios ...