Dance Informa Magazine
Feature Articles
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2.0KZeitgeist 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...
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2.7KThrough 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....
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2.2KSomething 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...
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2.8KWhere 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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2.9KLily 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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4.0KDancing 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...
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3.0KDance 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...
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2.2KLog 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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2.8KBDC 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...
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13.5K‘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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10.7KDance 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,...
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2.8KPacific 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...
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2.7KRed Bull Dance Your Style, all styles street dance competition, returns
One-on-one all styles street dance competition, Red Bull Dance Your Style, returns with a full 2020 calendar and full-fledged tour before heading...
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4.2KA day in the life of Sara Mearns
Dancer-designed leotard and dancewear lines are all the rage right now. From small to large, dancers with the world’s top companies are...
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4.6KDebbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe present the inaugural Los Angeles International Dance Festival
Debbie Allen and Nigel Lythgoe are putting a spotlight on LA’s dance industry this coming April, hosting the first ever Los Angeles...
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3.5KBrooke Wendle talks ‘The Funny Dance Show’
You name it, choreographer Brooke Wendle has done it! Just a handful of her exceptionally long list of credits includes Cirque du...
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3.0KVail Dance Festival announces 2020 season
From July 31-August 11, the Vail Dance Festival, a project of nonprofit Vail Valley Foundation, presents its 32nd season, featuring commissioned world premieres, new...
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4.8KPrincipal Dancer Chandra Kuykendall retires after 22 seasons with Colorado Ballet
Colorado Ballet Principal Chandra Kuykendall, who has called Colorado Ballet and Colorado Ballet Academy home for 31 years, will take her final bow...
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3.7KMeet the dancemakers of Choreography Online
These days, everything is online. You can buy and sell just about anything – clothing, groceries, even…choreography. But the idea behind Choreography Online,...
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2.5KSidra Bell’s MODULE: In poetic form
This past January, I had the opportunity to participate in MODULE (Movement Observed During Unique Laboratory Experiments), Sidra Bell’s award-winning bi-annual research laboratory,...
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3.2KDance photographer Rob Woodcox captures the impossible
The magic realism in Rob Woodcox’s dance photos almost has you convinced they’re possible. Bodies are crafted into structures, creating towering pyramids...
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2.9KEpisode Five of The Hollywood Dance Podcast: Marguerite Derricks on career longevity
Episode Five of The Hollywood Dance Podcast has arrived! The Hollywood Dance Podcast sees Tony Selznick and his co-host Megan Hunt, of...
