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COVID-19’s silver lining for the dance world

While it’s easy to get bogged down in the midst of the global pandemic we are facing, the dance world has responded...

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6 tech tools to help run your dance studio online

In this new, socially distant environment, technology is vital to continue to run your business. While fears of reduction in staff productivity...

Karole Armitage. Photo by Marco Mignani.

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A day in the life: Karole Armitage

Our days are when the incomparable magic of dance art happens. It’s also when we work ourselves to sheer exhaustion, stress about...

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Artistic Dance Exchange goes virtual

As the dance world adapts to a new – and hopefully temporary – way of life, more and more dance studios, teachers...

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Steps on Broadway classes you can take in your living room

Staying home is the socially responsible thing to do for your community right now, but dancers tend to have a hard time...

Ballet Hispánico in Nacho Duato's 'Jardi Tancat'. Photo by Paula Lobo.

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Ballet Hispánico celebrates 50 years of dance and diversity

Ballet Hispánico celebrates 50 years of bringing diverse dance to New York City this month. Representation in the dance world is a prudent and...

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Só Dança joins with Place of Hope for prevention of human trafficking

Although many of us would prefer not to believe it, human trafficking – the recruitment and exploitation of at-risk youths – continues...

Zeitgeist Dance Theatre. Photo by Katie Goughan.

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Zeitgeist Dance Theatre hiring dancers for its inaugural season

Self-described obsessive learners Yusha-Marie Sorzano and Francisco Gella are blazing a trail with their creation of Zeitgiest Dance Theatre. The two met...

Mandy Yip. Photo by Rachel Bower Productions.

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Through the darkness of COVID-19 comes light and reflection

Canceled. Postponed. Closed. These are just some of the words the dance industry has come to face in the wake of COVID-19....

Preprofessional Dancer Institute. Photo by Audrey Derell.

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Something to look forward to: Preprofessional Dancer Institute

For five days every Labor Day weekend, up to 75 young dancers-in-training from all over the world descend on Santa Fe, a...

Pina Bausch's 'Vollmand'. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

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Where do we go? Dance theater on American soil

Last year, I was rehearsing for a show — a dance theater adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play — in a downtown...

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Lily Frias: A winding road of dancing, representing and innovating

The road for any of us can take an unexpected turn, at any point — but that’s perhaps all the more true...

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Dancing in Isolation: Resources for dancers during COVID-19

The dance community is small but connected. And dancers are physical people. During this time of social-distancing, it’s easy to lose our...

Photo by @dagphotog from the film @uprooted.film.

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Dance at home with Broadway Dance Center

During this uncertain time, Broadway Dance Center (BDC) is busily working on ways to keep its students engaged and inspired while they’re...

Deborah Lohse. Photo courtesy of Lincoln Center at Home.

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Log in for Lincoln Center at Home Class

This Thursday, March 26, dancer and Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Deborah Lohse will teach a live dance class on Lincoln Center’s Facebook page for a Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom,...

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BDC dances on, online, in this moment of social distancing

The social distancing of this current world has made it necessary for everyone to make changes to their daily life. “Everyone” includes...

The cast of 'West Side Story'. Photo by Jan Versweyveld.

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‘West Side Story’ dancers Zuri Noelle Ford and Paul Morland open up about opening night

Dance Informa caught up with dancers Zuri Noelle Ford and Paul Morland about their Broadway debuts in the new West Side Story, choreographed...

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Dance community mourns loss of Danny Tidwell

Danny Tidwell, a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) and former dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), died on March 6,...

PNB in David Dawson's 'Empire Noir'. Photo by Angela Sterling.

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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ‘One Thousand Pieces’ with new resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo

Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB)’s 2019-2020 season continues with One Thousand Pieces, a double-bill of powerful dance works by Alejandro Cerrudo and David Dawson. Following...