Dance News

The Wooden Floor presents ‘Sunrise’

The Wooden Floor presents its 30th Annual Concert, Sunrise, from Thursday, May 30 through Saturday, June 1 at Irvine Barclay Theatre, just south of Los Angeles, CA. The Wooden Floor, a nationally-renowned arts-for-youth organization in Santa Ana, hosts a powerful collaboration between internationally-recognized choreographers and 
under-served local youth,

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DFC fundraises to end water crisis

Dance for Change, an organization on a mission to give dancers a platform to help people around the world, is currently working with the nonprofit charity: water to raise $5,000 that will provide access to clean drinking water in Africa.

“Imagine if you had no clean water. Imagine walking hours to the nearest river to collect water for

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2013 Tony Award nominations announced!

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for The 67th Annual Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 30th by stage and screen actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster. The nominees were selected by an independent committee of 24 theater professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. The 2013 Tony

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SummerStage Dance Season announced!

City Parks Foundation has announced the 2013 line-up for SummerStage, New York City's largest free performing arts festival featuring over 100 free music, dance, film, comedy, family and theater programs in 17 parks across all five boroughs.

This season's dance line-up promises to be as intriguing as ever with a mix of established artists and

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Arts Ballet Theatre Of FL invited to Poland

The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, under the direction of Maestro Vladimir Issaev, is about to finish its 15th season with two eagerly awaited performances on May 11 and 12 in Ft. Lauderdale and Aventura. With less than a month left of a spectacular season, Issaev and two dancers are preparing to venture to Poland. Issaev was recently invited to judge an

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Lincoln Center’s 43rd season of outdoor shows

The schedule for this summer’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, which runs from July 24 to August 11, was announced on Tuesday, April 30 by Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center’s Director of Public Programming. More than 100 free performances are set to take place across the plazas of Lincoln Center during three weeks. Twenty-one premieres and debuts

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PNB to present ‘Director’s Choice’

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 40th Anniversary Season comes to a close with Director’s Choice, which features a world premiere from contemporary ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and a tribute to George Balanchine, whose works have been vital to the company’s history.

The triple-bill features a currently untitled work by

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Purchase Dance Company at NY Live Arts

Purchase Dance Company will present its first full New York City Season at New York Live Arts on May 22–25. The company will perform works by five choreographers, including Bill T. Jones’s Spent Days Out Yonder (2000), George Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie (1967), and new works created specifically for the company by Ori Flomin, Loni Landon

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Helen Simoneau Danse International Tour

Led by contemporary choreographer and Artistic Director Helen Simoneau, the dually New York City and Winston-Salem, NC-based Helen Simoneau Danse will perform Flight Distance III: Chain Suite as a part of a three-country international tour presented by Montréal-based organization, Tangente.

The tour will begin in late spring and will

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Bombing amputee vows to dance again

A 32-year-old ballroom dance instructor who lost her foot in the recent Boston bombings has vowed to dance again.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis told WHDH-TV that she remembered being thrown in the explosion before grabbing hold of her husband Adam, who was also hit with shrapnel.

"I looked at Adam and said, ‘I think I'm okay.’

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Wonderbound presents ‘Industrial Project’

Although the 2012-2013 Wonderbound season has come to a close, the dance artists at Wonderbound are still working hard – and for a good cause.

On Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, Wonderbound artists will present the 4th annual installment of Industrial Project — a program of innovative dance works produced and performed entirely by

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