The 4th Annual Young Choreographer's Festival will present up-and-coming young choreographers in all genres of dance. Presenting the future of dance at its finest, the show will be performed in New York City for one night only on Saturday, June 15.
Texas-based Vitacca Productions & Company is offering Choreographic Fellowships to ambitious choreographer’s ages 16-30. The deadline to submit an application is Friday, May 31.
Now available for download and DVD purchase, Movement One is a dance documentary that follows producer/composer Jon Arpino and Emmy-nominated choreographer Teddy Forance. In just eight days, 20 dancers collaborated to choreograph and perform a 30-minute dance production set to an original score. Movement One features well-known dancers such as Teddy Forance, Twitch, Jaimie Goodwin, Allison Holker, Kathryn McCormick and Michael Keefe.
Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival is looking for dance works less than 10 minutes in length for a performance that will be in Texas on October 11-12. Submissions must be postmarked by Friday, July 12.
Contemporary dance company Thodos Dance Chicago is offering two 2013 Summer Intensives for intermediate, advanced and pre-professional dancers, one in late June and the other in early August. Ballet, modern and contemporary technique will be taught, along with composition and improvisation, repertory, and body health and wellness.
Two dance moms recently published a self-described “guidebook” titled Dance Mom Survival Guide. A humorous and helpful endeavor written to parents of dancers, the book's authors, Malena Lott and Jill Martin, address the difficulties and joys of raising a dancer.
Returning after successful runs in 2008 and 2010, the Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America series continues to showcase the extraordinary breadth and depth of American ballet through three mixed repertory programs on June 4-9. Nine ballet companies are set to perform, three per program.
Ballet West celebrates its 50th anniversary with an extraordinary year of first-time productions and long-time favorites. The company’s 2013-2014 season includes six exciting world premieres, a Utah premiere, a major revival and outstanding productions that honor Ballet West’s rich legacy.
The School of American Ballet announces the Workshop Performance Benefit 2013 on Tuesday, June 4 honoring Peter Martins' and Kay Mazzo's 30th Anniversary at SAB. The benefit is the school’s most anticipated event of the year. The annual Workshop Performances are SAB's only public performances and a rare opportunity to get a sneak preview of the ballet world's up and coming young stars.
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.
Dance for Change, an organization that gives 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.
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 5th Aerial Dance Encounters, titled “Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne,” will take place July 1-12 in France. An international aerial dance festival, it is an educational and artistic event that takes place every year during the first two weeks of July.
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.
On Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, Denver-based dance company Wonderbound will present the 4th annual installment of Industrial Project — a program of innovative dance works produced and performed entirely by the dancers, with all proceeds benefiting The Artist Resource Fund.
The Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida, under the direction of Maestro Vladimir Issaev, is about to finish its 15th season with two performances in May 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 after Issaev was recently invited to judge an international competition.
The schedule for this summer’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, which runs from July 24 to August 11, was announced on April 30 by Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center’s Director of Public Programming. More than 100 free performances, including 21 premieres and debuts, are set to take place across the plazas of Lincoln Center during three weeks.
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 40th Anniversary Season comes to a close with Director’s Choice, a triple-bill featuring a world premiere from contemporary ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two tributes to George Balanchine, whose works have been vital to the company’s history.
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 and Claire Porter.
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 include three performances in each location, including the cities of Montreal, Toyko and Busan.
RIOULT Dance NY will present its 2013 New York Season at The Joyce Theater on June 4-9. It will feature Pascal Rioult's world premiere choreographed to commissioned music by composer Michael Torke, which will be performed live by the Camerata NY Orchestra.
Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a 32-year-old ballroom dance instructor who lost her foot in the recent Boston bombings, has vowed to dance again. She plans to use a prosthetic foot to get back to doing her passion.
Group Theatre Too presents its sixth annual Choreographer's Canvas, a one-night event featuring the works of more than 15 established and emerging choreographers from around the country. The Canvas, headed by GTT Executive Producer Justin Boccitto, will play at The Manhattan Movement and Arts Center on Saturday, May 18.
Miami City Ballet and Trey McIntyre Project offer South Florida dance fans a double-dose of exciting, critically-acclaimed ballet and contemporary dance performances April 26-28 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale – and all for a low ticket price of $99!
As the 2012 Celebrity CREATE Competition Champion, Talia Favia earned the full financial backing for her own customized, live performance at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona. Last month, Favia and her team of dancers presented her work The Difference Between Sinking & Drowning to a sold-out theater.
The Washington Ballet concludes its 2012-2013 season with the world premiere of Artistic Director Septime Webre’s Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises. The new ballet based on Ernest Hemingway’s American classic opens with a preview May 8 and runs May 9-12.
Described as “enthralling” when it debuted in 2004, Nashville Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet returns to Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall April 26–28 to tell the tale of a love so powerful that nothing could contain it – not feuding families, not youth – not even life itself.
Andrew J. Nemr, protégé of Gregory Hines and a leader in the tap dance world, brings his one-man show to The Cutting Room in New York City this Thursday, April 18. Nemr tells stories of love and life through dance and music as he shares the stage with some of his talented friends that he's met along the way.
This year's Dance Teacher Web LIVE is scheduled for July 26-29 at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Through this Conference and Expo, dance teachers, studio owners, school staff, college dance majors and professional dancers have access to three days of interactive sessions, dance resources and special events.
Dance Affiliates, Philadelphia’s leading presenter of world-class dance, has published an informative and historic 155-page book commemorating its rich legacy as one of the few remaining dance-only presenters in the United States. The book is chockfull of 400 breathtaking archival photographs featuring 175 local, national and international companies.
