Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who founded Urban Bush Women four decades ago, says goodbye to it with a final work. By Brian Seibert Sometime in the early ...

Jacob's Pillow's 2026 festival salutes "mother of modern dance" Martha Graham with a new Hope Boykin work, a Tanglewood ...

(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance. (RNS) — In her early teens and early 20s, Halo Seronko struggled with ...

"Contemporary Dance in Four Colleges" is a 1952 Perry-Mansfield production that captures the innovative spirit of mid-century American dance education. The film presents dynamic performances and ...

Text by Imani Perry Photographs by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Videos by Caroline Kim and Alan Lee Jensen Every image here of the dancers Ayodele Casel, LaTasha Barnes and Camille Brown is strikingly ...

José Limón (1908-1972) is known for being a pioneer of American Modern Dance as well as one of the greatest male dancers of the twentieth century. He fought hard for both his art form and the male ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...

The founder of Texas Christian University’s modern dance program, Jerry Bywaters Cochran, was a proponent of thumbing through fine art books for inspiration — especially ones that featured abstract ...

Step into almost any day party, house party, or nightclub and you’re sure to hear dance music made by Black women and femmes. Amapiano, house, Jersey club, and jungle: the sounds that make up a rich ...

Martha Graham performing in 1962. (Photo by Jack Mitchell / Getty Images) Martha Graham debuted her masterpiece, Appalachian Spring, at the Library of Congress in 1944, at the height of the Second ...

Urban Bush Women, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based performance ensemble and dance company, will perform at the University of Wyoming at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, in the College of Arts and Sciences ...