NEW YORK — Twyla Tharp threw down a gauntlet in 1973: She mixed classical and modern dance to make the first crossover ballet, “Deuce Coupe.” It was a revolutionary work, and to pull it off she needed ...

When choreographer Annalee Traylor began her collaboration with Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, she was immediately struck by the strong bonds between its dancers. “Two of the artists in particular ...

Ballet is pure and clean and visceral. And it is finely crafted, meticulously designed. When it works — as it does so well in Boston Ballet season opener Fall Experience (now through Nov. 3 at ...

Many contemporary audiences find classical ballet culture alienating, but the Mariinsky Ballet’s rendition of “Paquita” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts pushed the form of dance ...

Christian Holder, who has died aged 75, was born into a supremely talented artistic Trinidadian family, grew up in London, and made his name as a dancer, choreographer, actor, costume designer, writer ...

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 ...

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