Category: DANCE

THEATER It’s not just your imagination once again: Musicals that tell the stories of Boomer-era hitmakers are big on Broadway and often become hits on national tours. The first tour…

Share Tweet Share Share Email In her solo performance, When Delicacy Unfolds Strength, Mareike Jung “explores dynamics and effects of power in the eye of the storm.” Surrounded by a…

Here are the latest promotions, appointments and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from February 2022. Also of note: new or newly available funding opportunities for dance artists.…

After the free dance and the medal ceremony, I started to feel acutely aware that the Olympics were quickly coming to a close. The women’s short was the day after…

The 2022 Beijing Olympic Games may have closed last week, but we’ve still got Olympic fever over here at Dance Spirit. That just makes sense, considering the many parallels that…

All of our performance picks this month—an evening-length ballet and an off-Broadway musical, mixed bills and multi-choreographer projects—feature intriguing premieres from an impressive array of dancemakers. Here’s what we’re most…

Know some extraordinary dance educators? Nominate them for a Dance Teacher Award! Every year, we recognize excellence in teaching by honoring outstanding dance educators for their contributions to the field.…

Every decade or so, choreographer Amy Hall Garner finds herself in Chicago. The Alabama native, Juilliard grad and working mom to an almost-6-year-old launched her career there in 1999 as…

Gisele Silva already had a well-established career in Brazil when, in 2017, she decided to start fresh. “I was at a level that was comfortable, but not challenging,” Silva recalls.…