Here you can see First Artist Tom Rogers and First Soloist Lei Zhao rehearsing an Act I pas de deux. Lei plays Clara, the heroine of the tale, and Tom is the Nutcracker Prince.

CANADA - The relationship between architecture and gender, ideas of freedom and space, and constructs of masculinity inspire The Open Spaces Project, an ambitious and exciting new work created by MACHiNENOiSY Co-Artistic Director Daelik. Choreographed for a cast of six men - Clinton Draper, Alex Ferguson, Shay Kuebler, Brett Owen, Chris Wright and Daelik himself - the work is an international collaboration with set design and dramaturgy by the innovative Berlin-based Australian artist Paul Gazzola, and sound and video by Calgary's Adam Tindale.

CANADA - Montreal, 5 October 2009 – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui continues to dazzle! This most eclectic of choreographers is back onstage with Sutra, a ballet for 17 Buddhist monks and kung fu masters that features 21 wooden boxes designed by Antony Gormley and one contemporary dancer, Cherkaoui.

VANCOUVER - Dance Centre’s new season of Discover Dance! noon shows begins with an enthralling performance by Raven Spirit Dance, whose distinctive brand of contemporary dance springs from an aboriginal worldview. 

A popular jazz/hip hop teacher at New York City’s Broadway Dance Center, Sheryl Murakami is, by her own admission, lucky.

She’s worked extensively in commercials, music videos, and on shows such as “Star Search,” “MTV VMA's” and “VH1 Fashion Rocks” and is now a choreographer for some of today’s most popular rock stars ...

Managing both thoughtfulness and spontaneity, David Hallberg was a fiery son of Montague as American Ballet Theatre presented its crowd-pleasing “Romeo and Juliet” again at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Vancouver, BC – The Dance Centre has announced Sara Coffin as the recipient of the third Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award.

NORFOLK - As we come to a end of  of the Virginia arts Fest we reflect on a time constraint which keep us from really getting out and covering some of the great dance performances. Perhaps next year. Here is an archived performance of the Icelandic Dance Company dating back to 07.

Vancouver celebrates International Dance Day with a series of free events which highlight the diversity of BC’s dance scene. Featured events at Scotiabank Dance Centre include studio showings and open classes with contemporary dance company Kinesis Dance, flamenco teacher Eleonora Acuña, and Fancy Dancers Shyama Priya and Nyla Carpenter. Julie Lebel and Miriam Colvin host a public showing of their DanceDemoCamp project, and Laura Hicks and Sara Coffin will give an informal showing of work developed by teens.

The Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the amount of $720,000, making it the largest single grant from the foundation to the Dance Group.

"This grant will allow us to address current as well as future economic challenges the Dance Group faces," Nancy Umanoff, MMDG Executive Director.

It seems like yesterday that I opened a letter addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Saltzman, "Congratulations! You have won ten free lessons at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio. . .etc. etc." As the studio was only walking distance from our home, we took advantage of the offer. If only we had signed up for another ten lessons (that was 40 years ago) we might have been world champions today.

Born Mercier Cunningham in Centralia, Wash., on April 16, 1919, the dancer and choreographer worked tirelessly to challenge the way people saw and thought about dance.

The German dance Medicine Association has continued growing through its tenth anniversary.

Complexions was founded in 1994 by acclaimed Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, “two of the greatest virtuosos ever to emerge from Ailey Land” (Tobi Tobias, New York Magazine). Born from their common appreciation for diversity through dance, Complexions has received numerous accolades for its high-energy choreography, remarkable dancers, and through provoking performances.