Dance is a powerful art form that transcends mere movement. It is an expression without words that many utilize as a powerful stress reliever. Dance facilitates creative connections, grounds dancers ...

Jaw-dropping, spectacular dancing! Fascinating and intricate choreography! Diverse music and a program packed with scholarly content and social commentary! Meredith Ventura, choreographer, founder, ...

Cincinnati’s longest-running modern dance organization has announced the schedule for its upcoming 54th season. Running from October 3 to May 2, 2026, Mutual Dance Theatre will give audiences the ...

Dancer, choreographer and dance educator Shirley Mordine has died. Her five-decade career in Chicago included founding the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and originating the college’s ...

As the director of the American Dance Festival, he oversaw the growth of diverse dance traditions, both in the United States and abroad. By Claudia Bauer Charles Reinhart, who as the longtime director ...

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 ...

University of Illinois Department of Dance students Cecily Sommers, Jerry Teske, Taposhi Mazumder, Deborah LaMonte and Bryan Carman performing Willis Ward’s ‘Rechants d’Amour’ in 1983. Scott Schwartz ...

The origins and evolutions of Modern Dance in America. To Feel the Earth and Touch the Sky, Living the Legacy of American Modern Dance is a film highlighting the boundary breaking figures in the ...

Contemporary dance — emotion filled and raw — manages to say a magnitude of things when words are simply not enough. Dancers Joshua Dwyre and Kimberly Chmielewski of JK-CO, a company that will be ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China. By Brian ...