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 ...

Last week, students at Consuming Fire School of Dance and Acrobatics received instruction from Sara Murdaugh, who taught them some steps in modern dance Though currently not performing with a dance ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Classical music, visual art and theater may be Cleveland’s cultural calling cards, but there’s another discipline in which the city also takes pride: dance. Just as the Cleveland ...

When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios ...

Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham held her first-ever performance on April 18, 1926 in New York City, and as her groundbreaking work reshaped the world of dance in the decades that followed, ...

To Feel the Earth and Touch the Sky, Living the Legacy of American Modern Dance is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. This week’s Modern Atlanta Dance Festival will offer “seven different visions” of contemporary style in one public performance, MAD Fest host Douglas ...

Yes, when it's as good-humored and strong as the Davidson Dance Group. Husband-wife duo Robert and Shannon Davidson were familiar here in the mid-1990s. Since then, they've lived in Missouri and New ...

WE APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME, DEREK. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU KRISTEN. THE WORLD’S OLDEST MODERN DANCE COMPANY IS PERFORMING IN MILWAUKEE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN HALF A ...

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