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Broadway Powerhouse Shubert Foundation Gives Out Nearly $40m in Grants

The New York-based foundation is the nation's largest funder of dance and theater nonprofits.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

‘Swan Lake’ Is Floating Across the Nation With Various Productions

Ballet companies such as the NYC Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet all prioritized 'Swan Lake' in their returns to the stage.
By Charlotte Barnett

How Strength Training Helped Dancer Elisa Clark Return to the Stage

The lifting of weights was exciting to me because it was different. It was a completely different entryway into my body.
By Charlotte Barnett

Spring Preview: Eight Opera and Dance Performances This Spring in NYC

By David Cote

Tommy Tune, Living Legend (and Landmark), Gets a Tribute in Dance, Talk and Hardcover

By Harry Haun

The Boys at the Barre: Ballet Reckons with Gender Equity and Power

By Emilie Murphy

Matisse’s Portrait of Henriette Darricarrère Shows a Quiet Side of His Favorite Muse

By Helen Holmes
Tiktok has brought a surge of interest in learning dance choreography.

How the Obsession With TikTok Dances Spilled Out of the App and Into the World

By Charlotte Barnett

In Honor of Climate Week, a Ballet About Melting Glaciers Debuts in New York

By Helen Holmes

Choreographer Emma Portner Says Justin Bieber Paid Her ‘Less Than Minimum Wage’

By Helen Holmes

How Gaspar Noé Shot His Ambitious Dance Movie, ‘Climax,’ With Only a One-Page Outline

By Stephen Garrett
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 08: Amanda Derhy, ballerina and ballet dancer, is wearing a Mariia Dancewear blue leotard, an Adidancewear black skirt, and Repetto dance shoes, and is performing ballet dance moves, at the Louvre, on January 8, 2017 in Paris, France.

3 Things Most Millennials Will Never Know About the Leotard

By Ann Votaw
Daniil Simkin, Rotunda Project, The Guggenheim, Works and Process.

A Motion Capture Ballet Is Coming to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Rotunda

By Alanna Martinez
Misty Copeland attends the American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala at The Metropolitan Opera House on May 1

Misty Copeland is the New Face of Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse Fragrance

By Sarah Fortinsky
Chris Clark

Upset the Rhythm: Producer Clark on the Dance Between Beauty and Tension

By Justin Joffe
'Roof Piece,' 1971. Courtesy of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, photo by Babette Mangolte.

Trisha Brown, Choreographer Who Redefined Performance, Dead at 80

By Guelda Voien
Revelations.

‘Revelations’—For Better or Worse—Remains Alvin Ailey’s Only Masterpiece

By Robert Gottlieb
Elizabeth Burke, Byron Tittle, Michelle Dorrance and Christopher Broughton in The Blues Project at The Joyce Theater.

Michelle Dorrance: Bring in ’da Tap, Bring in ’da Joy

By Robert Gottlieb
Lucinda Childs’ Dance.

This Fall’s Dance Season Is Jam-Packed

By Robert Gottlieb
Image of NYCB principal dancer Lauren Lovette via DanceIforma.com

Mark Your Calendars For a Series of World Premieres at NYC Ballet This Fall

By Alexa Buckley and Sarah Pierson
Hayley Kiyoko.

The Best Songs You Missed Last Week: Hayley Kiyoko, Tove Lo, More

By Ilana Kaplan
L.A. Dance Project dancers Aaron Carr, Charlie Hodges, and Morgan Lugo in Harbor Me by Siddi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Millepied’s Latest From LA and Wheeldon’s Date With Shakespeare

By Robert Gottlieb
Yoka Wao (forefront) in A scene from Takarazuka in Chicago, music and Lyrics by Kander and Ebb, choreography by Bob Fosse, presented by Lincoln Center Festival at the David H. Koch Theater on July 20, 2016. Performers: Yoga Wao_Velma Kelly (long hair in pony, thin Hikaru Asami_Roxie Hart (short bob hair) Jun Hatsukaze_Matron Mama Morton_older woman with curly hair Saori Mine_Billy Flynn (in pants suit) Yuki Kaon_Fred Casely (in sweater- Husband.

Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago’ Razzle Dazzles at Lincoln Center

By Robert Gottlieb
John Selya and Amy Ruggiero in "Country Dances" by Twyla Tharp.

Twyla Tharp Ups the Ante with Beethoven at the Joyce

By Robert Gottlieb
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