Founded in the Financial District by Jonathan Hollander in 1976, Battery Dance Company gave its first performances in parks, plazas and piers downtown. Five years later, the company launched the Downtown Dance Festival, which has now become New York City’s longest–running free public dance festival. The 32nd annual edition of the festival kicks
So You Think You Can Dance continued, as its Top 14 dancers competed for America’s votes.
The competition took an unexpected blow, as another dancer suffered an injury. Curtis Holland hurt his shoulder during rehearsals and was not cleared by his doctors to perform this week. So he was absent for the dark and moody group routine
Dance Informa has recently partnered with respected performing arts education company Broadway Connection to bring Broadway-related articles to readers. This partnership will shine a light into the world of Broadway through monthly columns written by and/or focused on the expertise of Broadway Connection’s celebrated faculty.
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The Louisville Ballet will host an open children’s audition for The Brown-Forman Nutcracker on Sunday, August 18 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Louisville Ballet studios, located at 315 E. Main St. between Preston and Floyd Streets in Louisville, KY.
For decades, thousands of young dancers have had an opportunity to perform with the
The New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies), NYC’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, announced recently the 40 nominees for the 2012-2013 season. Announced at a press conference by members of The Bessies Selection Committee, the nominations (listed below) were made by an independent committee of 38 dance
The 42nd edition of the Prix de Lausanne, an international competition for young dancers, will be held at Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland on January 26-February 1, 2014. Registration for this renowned competition is now open.
The annual Prix de Lausanne takes place the last week of January each year. At each
John J Zullo Dance/Raw Movement will present a 2013 season at Danspace Project on September 19-21. The season is part of DANCE: Access, a self-production series overseen by Danspace Project that serves independent choreographers and dance companies.
Performances will include works from John J Zullo Dance/Raw Movement's repertory, including ALL
TLC will air a new dance reality show dubbed Dance Kids ATL on Wednesday, July 24 that showcases some sly hip-hop moves from a bunch of Atlanta-based hoofers under the age of 16. Depending on the pilot’s ratings, there is potential for Dance Kids ATL to be made into a series.
The special goes inside of Dance 411, a Georgia dance studio
By Stephanie Wolf.
As another week with more routines and more eliminations whizzed by, the competition heated up as Season 10 of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance continued.
At the top of the show, Cat Deeley wasted no time and announced the bottom six dancers: Alan Bersten, Dorian “BluPrint” Hector, Jenna
After a decade of successfully presenting dance on New York City’s “best tiny stage,” DANCENOW is honored to kick off The Public Theater’s 15th anniversary celebration of Joe’s Pub with the 2013 DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival planned for October.
Noted for its adventurous short-takes format, the annual DANCENOW
International ballet star José Carreño has served as Artistic Director of Sarasota’s annual dance festival bearing his name since it’s founding in 2010.
Now, in addition to his duties at the
Carreno Dance Festival,
it has been announced by Ballet San Jose that
he has
been named
The Miami City Ballet School is hosting a free Open House on Saturday, August 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring free half-hour beginning adult ballet, modern and jazz classes, as well as creative movement classes for children, a Pilates mat class and a tour of the dance studios.
“If your child has expressed interest in studying dance
