Clayton couldn’t see himself telling the tall, scary dancer that fact. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And then there was her figure, the milkmaid breasts, the swim champ stomach, the legs of a sprinter or a Martha Graham dancer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With Fadi’s help she’d kept the camera focused on a particular spot, at the center of the hardwood floor, waiting for the whirling dancers to enter the frame. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He might’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers at the San Francisco Opera House said so, so maybe I'll be a schoolteacher like my aunt and have the whole summer off. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can barely make it through the simplest merengue without bruising the dancers around him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, dancers, less than three weeks till showtime,” Miss Jovy says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The dancers did not want me to go out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

While her sisters fussed over which of the dolls to choose, Sandi grabbed the one dressed exactly like the dancers in the floor show. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"I said do you know when a girl's really a terrific dancer?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

We find a bench and watch the dancers for a few minutes until Izzi nudges me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I never got to be a dancer because a couple months later, we would be fleeing Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d bleached her hair and eyebrows platinum and was wearing dark makeup as thick as a Kabuki dancer’s. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Amari smiled with anticipation, for her mother was known as one of the most talented dancers in the Ewe tribe. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well--where I have my hand on your back. If I think there isn't anything underneath my hand--no can, no legs, no feet, no anything--then the girl's really a terrific dancer." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made great leaps without half trying, like a dancer in a ballet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As Mami began to explain that this restaurant had shows of Spanish dancers as well as yummy Spanish food, a series of thumps sounded on the floor from below. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One by one the other dancers join her, palms reaching upward, swaying back and forth. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another reveler, a laughing young boy wearing a joker’s cap, came and pulled them back toward the dancers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers paused, evidently waiting for some acknowledgment or reciprocal gesture, but there was none. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “I’m afraid we couldn’t. That sounds too much like chorus girls or ballet dancers, and these birds are pretty serious. I don’t think they’d like it.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the dancers had stirred her after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They are like ballet dancers entirely unaware they are on stage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squire brought down, and gave Demodokos, the clear-toned harp; and centering on the minstrel magical young dancers formed a circle with a light beat, and stamp of feet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older girls would mimic the backup dancers’ routine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The dancers stopped, frozen for a moment into a pattern of waving arms and lifted legs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And you told me I was pretty. You said you were a good dancer and asked if I had a boyfriend.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At one point, the dancers appeared dressed as flappers, twirling wildly to jazzy music. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She looked up at him and declared, “Daddy, I want to be a dancer.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then the dancers danced the future—a machine-future—in clothes I had never seen before. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sauntered down the street with his light dancer’s step whistling “My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one single dancer with six toes on his left foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It’d be cool, though. And we better dancers than them anyways.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning motioned the dancer back, who approached the table with her full cargo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Do I look like one of the Solid Gold dancers?" he asked finally, when he couldn't take any more quiet. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The king rode on a litter, surrounded by Praise Singers, musicians and dancers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kurtz straightened up and gave me a wink, then disappeared into the crowd of dancers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In their blood-coloured and foetal darkness the dancers continued for a while to circulate, to beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancer held up a doll and puffed out the skirt of its dress so that it opened prettily like a fully blown flower. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

None of the boys were particularly good dancers, but the girls didn’t seem to mind. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She smiled as she talked, and her expression and the hair piled in a bun high on her head made her look like a Lautrec dancer but she never looked straight at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Must be comfortable with heights; all must be accomplished tap dancers for the finale. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had been a good dancer once, but now she was overweight, and sad to watch, even in the eyes of a ten-year-old who had never seen this kind of dancing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t enough to treat her with the doting brutality of an apache dancer toward his partner—which she understands, incidentally, whether you think so or not. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their escorts said he was a nifty dancer, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arm rises and falls with a dancer’s grace. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ahead of the formal procession and behind it danced the riau-riau dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I left the dancers quickly, although I hesitated at the edge of the fire circle to watch. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You’re a good dancer, cousin,” she said, and her heart jumped again, maldng her think she might die right then and there in Lefty’s arms, but of course she didn’t; they danced on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to be a ballet dancer. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers scatter and my fellow passengers applaud wildly. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sofía briefly considered a belly dancer or a girl who'd pop out of a cake. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I have always been one of the worst dancers that God has ever put upon this earth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never one to shun free publicity, Bloom accepted instantly and traveled to the club with a dozen of his dancers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now" She followed him over to the wall, where he settled onto a bench. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I may be a young girl, but I am not so foolish as to wed a man who finds a fruit platter more enticing than my breast. I saw which dancers you were watching.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My favorite numbers are the ones where the dancers balance candles on their heads. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She was a good ham, bumping her hips up against the male dancers and rolling her eyes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered the tiny fire dancer, and he wondered if it still lived in there with the fire-sword soldier. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male dancers caught them about the waists and slid them down onto their members. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was a perfect replica of the beautiful dancers, dressed in a long, glittery gown with a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, from which cascaded a tiny, lacy mantilla. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They wheeled and turned in macabre simultaneity; and melted through changes of formation with the weird ease of chorus dancers in Lunar Bowl. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When she decided to become a dancer at seventeen, she disregarded all conventional wisdom, which preached that dancers must begin their training as young children. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Graceful and gleaming, the lynx landed lightly in the middle of the astonished dancers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She spread her sneakers far apart, toes pointing outward, and squatted like a Balinese dancer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hood, everybody knows who the best dancer in the crew is. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we were all in the room and seated on the floor, she began to play, and the dancer began to dance as if she were the one trying out, not us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers, a guy in electric blue with an enormous package, presses play on a boom box. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were musicians, dramatists, sculptors, dancers, and the practitioners of a hundred other smaller arts, even the lowest art of all: poetry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s actually squatting so deeply that I can’t help but stare; this dramatic Yoga pose is the first evidence that he must have really been a good dancer once. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’d warm the crowd up with a few songs, then the dancers would come out and do a couple of numbers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She stood just inside the entryway and looked out over the sea of dancers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers bumped her hip up against me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other dancers pressed to the sides of the room to give them space — no one wanted to stand in contrast with such radiance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Blind Beth was no water dancer, but she would not be Beth forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hildy had brassy blond hair, wore a garnet-colored chiffon bow around her neck, chewed sen-sen, knew all the latest songs and was a good dancer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwen laughed and took Ash’s hand, leading her back to the dancers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the legs of a once quite widely acknowledged public beauty, a vaudevillian, a dancer, a very light dancer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Prince of Winterfell had been a graceful dancer, but Reek with his missing toes would be grotesque. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ash went to the edge of the balcony and looked down at the dancers, and Kaisa came and stood beside her, leaning on the wide marble balustrade. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street was solid with dancers, all men. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Bailey learned easily, and has always been the better dancer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was a natural dancer—her petite frame and her long, graceful limbs made her movements seem as if they melted into the music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved with quick, delicate motions like a bird or a dancer, shifting from foot to foot in a silent, complicated shuffle, as if she were practicing choreography. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She tinned sideways, into her water dancer's stance, but the Bull did not move. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No/” “Yeah. Can you picture it? We get all the heavies stoned, and then hit ’em with a tap dancer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes her partner was one of the brilliantine-haired neighborhood sheiks who was a snappy dancer and made her watch her steps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ema had pointed out that she might have more trouble convincing the bouncers that she was applying for work as a dancer, to which Rachel frowned and said, “Nonsense, you look hot.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He deserves his own page because he is by far the best bed dancer I've ever seen. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was as trim as a ballet dancer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister gave me a stern glance before she leapt up to join the dancers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila walked between the dancers, tapping couples on the shoulder. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Outside in the playground, I can hear the hydrant dancers we saw earlier. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pain reminded her that she was a dancer, that she was someone named Sosie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I went home and did this secretly, when no one else was around, and waited for my skin to become the skin of an odori dancer. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beautiful, in fact, but I’m afraid of all the Indians who aren’t dancers and singers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She began to speak as Elena did—as if she knew people wanted to hear her thoughts—and to hold herself taller, like a dancer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The band was dressed as Apache dancers and three of the female teachers came modestly attired in cancan outfits. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked like a crab, side to side, and probably if he had wanted to be a ballet dancer, he would have been doomed to a miserable life of endless frustration. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, the dancers and the gymnasium behind him vanish, and the scene around him suddenly changes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go watch the chicken dancers,” I said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here comes the Lord of the Sun and Moon, the Lion that prowls by Night!” they sang to the sounds of hand pianos, iron bells and the shell anklets of the dancers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced him to the cream of goblin society, and to dancers, singers, painters, schoolteachers, and merchants with an amateur love of history, the kindest and most curious people he knew in Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But quite the opposite results were achieved, as the dancers danced themselves to utter exhaustion, and one by one they began to expire from heart attacks, strokes, and complete organ failure. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It cracked the top shelf, swept the beige, finger-size ceramic figurines of ballet dancers in various contorted postures to the hard floor and then landed after them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers next to us jump on the wrong beat and trip. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Good idea,” Dad said, “but be sure to leave out the part about the dancers.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then she lowered it back to the floor as lightly as a ballet dancer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was married and had a daughter who was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

If I did not have the bows, my shoes would look just like the ones the dancers have on TV. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers along the edges of her body, smoothing her legs and hips to make her thin and willowy like the imperial dancers on their tiptoes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As the dancer flung herself about with a detached expression on her face, the men began reaching out to touch her. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claude Debussy was so intrigued by the Javanese dancers and musicians at the 1899 World’s Fair in Paris that he developed techniques for evoking the exotic sounds of the gamelan on a Western piano. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For his age, he was a good dancer, much better than she was. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Three days in Puerto Rico and my brother thinks he’s a professional dancer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“This word, ballerina, is an Italian word. It means ‘little dancer.’ Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The showcase means that the best of the best dancers go all out for a while, in a little competition. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Move your gut around like a hula dancer," I said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After the dancing is over, Met Bong comes over and says, “For a young girl, you are a good dancer.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Sizwe and I added the dancers to our DJ sets, we blew up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then Siddhartha had spent the night at his house with dancers and wine, had pretended to be superior to his companions, which he no longer was. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had dared to step out among the dancers and close her eyes and twirl and when she opened them Edward was there, his eyes alight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Josie was a terrific dancer, and she was teaching Laney how to lindy hop. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There is often entertainment of some sort or another: dancers, conjurers, exotic musicians. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The moon, after all, still smiles from time to time, and the world still spins like a dancer through the skies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She was also a good dancer and a good artist. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites are correct in thinking that black people are natural dancers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the music ended, Rafael took Lupita by the elbow and steered her away from the other dancers, who were waiting for the next tune. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Nately charged after him, but was blocked by the first officer, who plodded back in holding a pillow in front of him, like a bubble dancer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The large one wobbled the standing up sign that said Kerala Tourism Development Corporation Welcomes You with a kathakali dancer doing a namaste. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Fern swung her arms up and down and bopped her head like a go-go dancer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around the dance floor and see other people who are good dancers, and then I see myself in the mirror, and I see I am a nervous dancer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The kids would spend weeks choreographing the event and making up songs, and I would attend the rehearsals, dreaming of a day when I could be a dancer in the procession. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Exotic- type dancers—” “I get the idea, Dad.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The dance sped up, and the dancers with it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

My fellow dancers and I worked really hard to learn how to dance together as one. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was in his late twenties with light, close-cropped hair, a smooth face, the body of a dancer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The patches of white above the eyes, on the cheeks and around the mouth came off as finishing touches worthy of a Kathakali dancer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Horace pretended to trip over a curb, then bounced up nimbly and bowed like a dancer, tipping his hat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Me!—oh! no—I would get you a better partner than myself. I am no dancer.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Our yard was wide enough to hold a hundred people dancing atilogu, spacious enough for each dancer to do the usual somersaults and land on the next dancers shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kids from every neighborhood would come and bring their best dancers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was going to be a dancer and she loved space. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drumbeats rippled in the darkness, the dancers swayed and stomped on the hard-packed earth, and Amari’s people clapped and laughed as the firelight glimmered in the night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was a real water dancer, she would go out there with Needle and kill all of them, and never run from anyone ever ^gain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The girls stand behind me protectively, like backup dancers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She broke over an iron gate, crimping it on impact, and there she hung, impossibly arched, graceful as a temple dancer swooning on a lover’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing blouses and broadcloth skirts and handwoven belts, they formed a slower-moving, dignified circle around the male dancers, keeping their torsos and heads straight as they bobbed up and down with each step. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She followed the laughing crowd into the circle of dancers weaving their way around the crackling flames, and she let Colin spin her through unfamiliar steps, the Square a blur of color in her eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re singers and actors and writers and dancers and directors and poets. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drums pounded and the pipe music was shrill, and everywhere the flow of the crowd was broken by patches of dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And I understand how working and hoeing are dancing; how peasant clothes are golden, as king’s clothes are golden; how one of the dancers is always a man and the other a woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is a stately woman, the grace of a dancer still visible through her advanced age, along with her impeccable sense of style. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She ducks beneath his arm, light-footed as a dancer, and takes off his head with one clean stroke. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fred wasn’t a natural dancer like Chico, but no dog in the cast worked harder than he did. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You three were so amazing at the benefit in March. Like professional dancers. Mrs. Atanabi was so impressed with how hard you worked, and how well you worked together.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The thing is, everybody knows that Ximena is the best dancer in the whole school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was tall and brown and was the best traditional powwow dancer on the rez. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some dancers formed a circle around Brett and started to dance. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But it is the first time I have danced it in front of such a large audience of critics and other dancers. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are a rotten dancer, Jake. Michael's the best dancer I know." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Because we spent our days doing nothing but listening to CDs and coming up with dance moves, our crew from the corner already knew all the songs, so they became our dancers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We make our way through the underside of the tables, with ballads and drinking songs sung above us, screams and whispers in the air, and the soft footfalls of dancers echoing around us like rain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She walks like a dancer—graceful and balanced. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The waiter saved chairs for the others, and we each ordered an absinthe and watched the crowd in the square and the dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Odysseus now addressed Alkinoos: “O majesty, model of all your folk, your promise was to show me peerless dancers; here is the promise kept. I am all wonder.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pindar calls the lyre theirs as well as Apollo’s, “the golden lyre to which the step, the dancer’s step, listens, owned alike by Apollo and the violet-wreathed Muses.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was called the finger dance because it usually ended when one of the dancers lost one ... or two, or five. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"You are the best dancer in that class, Shanti," she tells me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A former policeman and carpenter who in his youth had gained unlikely fame as a “rock dancer,” who delighted people with his “twist” performances, Saemi would do anything for a friend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Street musicians banged their drums while dancers jigged around the dusty road. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the South Bronx dancers, violinists, painters, and flute players will probably have the highest- average college enrollment in the city. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the ballroom, dancer after dancer gaped at her as she fled. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty dollars buys an invitation to a smaller room, where a dancer brushes her breasts against the men’s faces. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On “two,” they grabbed the “dead” dancer and hoisted him up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When the music stops, the dancers whistle and clap with their hands above their heads, and none more enthusiastically than Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

To them, I am Virginia the scientist and singer and dancer and star student and advice giver. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They appear as knackery trucks that carry dead horses, as collapsing dams, and maybe as beautiful girls with long dancer legs who drift silently through the dust of a California desert morning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

You could see every detail of the dancers in motion. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She could not spot him or Lucky Ruiz in the throng of waiting dancers. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It is a dancer, a musician, an arrow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Asha was as good a finger dancer as any man on the isles and had ten fingers to prove it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy followed June as she wove through the dancers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Millet had some extraordinary ideas for events in August, including an elaborate Midway ball during which fair officials, including Burnham, would dance with Dahoman women and Algerian belly dancers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I try not to think about how bad I want to go down there and walk among the dancers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tourists got to see what they wanted; from the grandstand at the Ceremonial grounds they watched the dancers perform, and they watched Indian cowboys ride bucking horses and Brahma bulls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a fragment of fallen plaster and drew dusty white stripes across the backs of his hands, the way ceremonial dancers sometimes did, except they used white clay, and not old plaster. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What I said was: And she was also a dancer. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After that they wished to fly airplanes, or be prizefighters, or preachers or dancers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dancer was there, smiling at him and bowing for him, changing from splendid orange to icy green to iridescent purple. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dance with a smile on my face, even when my partners are ugly, or terrible dancers, so that they won’t feel bad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers’ tassels are red and black, and behind them crosses bum. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She also tells me the story of a man named Santos who left Los Ojos many years ago with the dream of becoming a dancer in Los Angeles. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the back room Brett and Bill were sitting on barrels surrounded by the dancers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t doing just any dance—he was a man possessed, a man who knows in his heart that he is the greatest dancer on earth. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The dancers on the screen moved to a steady beat. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Which, given the fact that she was the chief dancer of the heavens, was probably true. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dancers, the music, the lights, the people in the theater are all so beautiful that I want to wear them on my skin for the rest of my life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"No?" the dancer said in a surprised voice, lifting up her eyebrows. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the crowd you saw only the heads and shoulders of the dancers going up and down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Leticia is a great dancer, but it feels weird to see her onstage in booty shorts, and wearing bright lipstick, her curls pulled into a tight ponytail. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The band, the spectators and the dancers would be making the Roseland Ballroom feel like a big, rocking ship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a smartass, son. Just listen and learn. The party gets a little out of control, okay? On the boat there are some ... well, let’s be nice and call them ‘dancers.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lanterns are lit, and they swing wildly, making shadows move like ghostly dancers. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He spun me around and we shuffled in tiny circles amid the dancers around us, all cheering. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is a trained singer and gifted dancer who radiates energy onstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The trunk twisted like the arm of a dancer, and below, on the lip of dirt, the base widened. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m not a water dancer yet, but I’m not a mouse either. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night the house was full of light and noise, with people dressed as soldiers and queens and dancers and chieftains. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not the most coordinated dancer, but she was strikingly pretty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It looks remotely like a dance studio, only instead of tutus there are miscellaneous fake body parts here and there, and the only “dancers” are Hank and my mother. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Boys and girls, do we have the makings of a dancer here? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pegleg Bates, the one-legged tap dancer, was appearing, along with a band and a comedian. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the girls think it’s unfair favoritism, since her mom is a former principal dancer, but I’ve never felt that way. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His awkwardness makes him very endearing, although it’s clear my daughter prefers more refined dancers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three ballerina jewelry boxes stand open, the little dancers with their arms over their heads. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Some others joined in, and soon the circle was filled with dancers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I sat spellbound, watching every step and every movement of the dancers’ arms and heads. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I grow up I think I'll be a dancer, but it is an awful lot of work. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lexie would slide down off her stool and walk across the kitchen with the elegance of a dancer, barefoot on the Italian tiles. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had always been a dancer, my old professor. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandi pointed to the basket in which the dancer was rearranging the rejected dolls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He pretended to watch the dancers, like Krum, but he was thinking hard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Johnny said Raquel was a modern dancer and wore black clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He had learned to play dice and chess, to watch dancers, to be carried in sedan chairs, to sleep on a soft bed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her partner had not noticed her discomfort, and he said, “You are a beautiful dancer.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers clapped and strutted, tossing their heads boldly like horses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And his father striding up — underwater, he has turned boneless, a ballet dancer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted circus people and some dancers who look like they are standing in smog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stoked the fire, and as the flames leapt up she remembered the bonfire, and the dancers, and the look on the huntress’s face. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am almost giddy with hope until I see Keenan watching the dancers whirl, his brow furrowed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She could see Kaisa and the dancers and the solid heft of the marble pillars, but over it all she could see another ballroom. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all the dancers, a large clear bubble was suspended in space, at the absolute center of the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Lord flew effortlessly, twisting his body in curls and spirals the way a skilled dancer can take a twenty-foot ribbon and make it form graceful designs behind her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked, and all of a sudden he saw her practicing, her movements like a dancer around the polished wooden floor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We’re pretty good and all, but the dancers in the showcase would be the very hottest of the hot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt embarrassed and stupid as I backed away through all the dressed-up dancers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the other dancers would form a big “U” with the band at the open end. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And hands down the best, most beautiful, most graceful dancer in the crew was Sizwe’s neighbor, Hitler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A great yell went up from the crowd, and all the other dancers ran towards him with out stretched hands. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed the Degas dancers, the big painting made completely of dots, the Monet haystacks and bridges, and headed into the older works. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had all been enthralled by the folk dancers from Madrid at the Dominican World's Fair last year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was an open door where the dancer still stood. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This, I could see, was to tip the dancers. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother's eyes were dark and beautiful like those of the little dancer before her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But once Zooey’s foot was up, he gave the impression of sustaining a dancer’s position. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

While the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, hotel guests frolicked with their children in the water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them finally stepped into the circle, grabbed a dancer by the arm, pushed her down to the ground, and mounted her right there, as a stallion mounts a mare. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“At any moment dancers will unfurl from the tops of the willow’s boughs, lip-synching a reminder that the sun will shine again.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the dancers look goofy — one boy reminds me of David, his elbows bent sharply. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered him the most handsome man that she had ever been with, the best dancer, the hardest worker. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ve always envisioned myself in a flared red skirt like the flamenco dancers wear. Maybe with a few carnations.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed in silence, and I watched as the feast carried on below us, with the dancers dancing and the singers singing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Danced with her, Mother o’ Christ, I’m dying inside, danced with her I did below in the Wembley Hall and a champion dancer she was too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes slanted up with her cheekbones like the face of an antelope dancer’s mask. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the belly dancers came in robes and turbans. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hitler was going to compete with their best dancer, Hector, who was one of the best dancers in South Africa at the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the facts remained: she was an old cantina dancer with eyes like a cat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tally pushed her way through the drunken dancers, out the other side of the procession, and ran down a side street toward Garbo Mansion, wearing the face of a pig. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There, the young women dancers join us, still in their costumes of body paint. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The boys moved like a couple of dancers in a well-rehearsed routine until most of their rope wound around Mr. Flux, mummy-style. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They went together through the dancers then, and when they exited the pavilion the night felt cool and dry. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Friendly asked Benji at halftime while dancers took over the court. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were light; they were molten, changing gold—Chinese lion dancers, African lion dancers in midstep. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed past the timeworn carvings of dancers, and he imagined them whispering to him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And if the dancers hesitate, have a moment of doubt, the music will solve and dissolve any question. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have held a luau on that bus, with a roast pig and hula dancers, and he would have been none the wiser. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Accomplished ballroom dancers, sluggards who knew neither traditional nor Western dancing, all joined in the indlamu, the traditional Zulu war dance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took another step aside, like a dancer circling around his partner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You are one ugly girl, I told myself, but at that very moment, Nora, the oldest and best dancer in the class, crossed the room toward me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a horrible dancer. Terrible. In fact, I’m so bad I even have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always tells me about how he used to be a dancer on a TV show back in the day called Soul Train. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was a dancer, from Santa Fe, with a rubbery face and an idiotic giggle and dimples all over when she smiled. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grossly fat, yet he seemed to walk lightly, carrying his weight on the balls of his feet as a water dancer might. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I told him I always wanted to be a dancer, that I wanted to try for the Rockettes at Radio City. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting up straight in the chair with his thick legs bowed, he looked like a cossack dancer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he a good dancer? You should’ve kept dancing with him. He obviously wanted to dance with you.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jerome was a good dancer and a fun date. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To this end she recruited Italian dancers, choreographers and a band of violinists, playing on the very instruments she had ordered for her son from Cremona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once we arrived we waited in the back of the school’s assembly hall and watched the acts that went onstage before us, different groups took their turns performing, flamenco dancers, Greek dancers, traditional Zulu musicians. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was going to take dancing lessons from an Austrian dancer named Hans. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he spun again, looking like an amateur dancer, but like a proper discus thrower, and said, Whoosh. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As Dr. Fanning spoke to one of the waiters, a dancer approached the table, carrying a large straw basket with a strap that went around her neck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers had given the American lady her rose, and Mrs. Fanning now tried to stick it in her husband's lapel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The corn swayed in the wind, like dancers with scarves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ballet studios, open trays of crushed resin are usually set aside for the dancers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever the plants threw the dancers up into the air or kissed a woman with sloppy affection, the elf flinched as though her head were being bitten off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The woman in this picture is a ballet dancer.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hold is proprietary and masculine, but he is not a good dancer. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you guys need some help? I mean, I don’t want to brag, but I’m a really good dancer.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But you said—you said you were a good dancer!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“No, I haven’t been there in almost ten years. I was a terrible dancer — they always put me in the back for recitals,” I admitted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shoving through the hedge with Needle in hand, she slid into a water dancer's stance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Otis looked like the world’s largest, grumpiest ballet dancer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lost her to a fate most Afghans consid­ered far worse than death: She ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He kept pace with her better even than the best Mexican dancers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, dancers, let’s try this again, but on the beat this time,” says Miss Jovy, a little panicky. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A water dancer sees with all her senses, she reminded herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Could you do such things when you were a dancer?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning had broken the spell of the wild and beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For one thing, she was one of the best dancers in school. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had long dancer’s legs and dancer’s feet and she seemed never to touch the ground when she walked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the hand felt a connection to the dancers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Now and again the bridge people crept out of the library like hermits to watch the dancers, and then returned again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His father had been a vaudeville dancer and singer and had achieved quite a bit of success in the black entertainment outlets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Melba Valle lived above us and was a part-time model and dancer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was heavy yet he was still a dancer and the easy moves of the old predator came back to him effortlessly as he went from spot to spot testing his eye. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked glum and miserably uncomfortable, but he managed a dancer’s bow, which couldn’t have been easy with snake feet and a huge spear on his back. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Make me a water dancer and a wolf and not afraid again, ever. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The plover’s golden eye and red noseband made it look like one of the dancers in the Bladder Feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravity-defying performances of those dancers, with their impossible leaps and lifts, and ballerinas who spun ’round tirelessly, like those on the tops of music boxes—well, that sounded well worth the trouble. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Below the balcony, in the ballroom, the dancers whirled in their dresses that had been spun from ordinary human-made looms. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat on the wooden bench and, while watching the dancers, spoke about Margie’s family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As for Congolese music, I was the best dancer in the house, and I made sure everyone knew it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if that was the dancers’ intention—to get us all to connect just for a moment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I turn to the pole dancer, she of three teeth and a tattoo of an alligator on her elbow, and she says, “You don’t worry about them, baby.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The two old dancers were still dancing at Sixth Hour, midnight, after five Terran hours. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father was a wonderful dancer,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She led him across the floor, weaving among the dancers, stepping over couples whispering and necking. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A makeshift signal flag—a red knitted leg wanner of the sort worn by dancers— was knotted to the end of an alder branch by the vehicle's rear exit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started the song, the dancers fanned out in their semicircle, and I got on the mic. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the ragged edge, a neat person had printed in blue ink, “P.A.” and the year the actor, dancer, or musician had graduated. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was traipsing toward them with the grace of a dancer, the wrinkles once covering her face vanished. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Surely it is all some sort of dark and unfunny joke,” Penelope thought, as she took her place in the line of dancers. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At the Grand Coulee Club and the Silver Dollar, small orchestras played dance tunes for taxi dancers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was “such a sweet person,” so “artistic,” a “terrific” dancer, and she could sing, too. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the donkey sees one of these dancers, it will chase them into the bush and kick them with its mighty legs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We have too many dancers in the city,” he said, rubbing his feet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Without responding to me directly, she spun around on her heels like the dancer she was and marched away. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was the boys, the dancers, and the drunks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Laura watched Ma’s skirt swaying and her little waist bending and her dark head bowing, and she thought Ma was the loveliest dancer in the world. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, like a dancer dropping into a curtsy that keeps going all the way to the ground, Azareen sank down onto the grass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories of old country burials with singers and dancers, but I wasn’t sure what to do, so we just dug a hole and said a passel of prayers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asha wrenched the axe out of the table and flung it back down at the dancers, to whistles and loud cheers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I watched, amazed at her lithe dancer’s step, till she dumped her tray and glided through the back door, faster than I would have thought possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are several actresses, two dancers, three painters besides me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I was a better dancer than she was and it made her angry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Other dancers swirled around the floor and some girls even came and asked me to dance, but I did not respond. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The second guard, Pol, moved with the stealthy grace of a dancer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Askew pivoted like a dancer and was gone. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto seemed distracted, so I leaned over and whispered loudly in his ear to pay attention to the dancers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Dance groups from the Pueblos were paid to come; they got Plains hoop dancers, and flying-pole dancers from northern Mexico. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caught in midair, like a ballet dancer, defying gravity. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When the pounding of the drums suddenly died, the dancers stopped in confusion, their applause abruptly ending, but then Ash heard a great cheer go up from the far side of the Square. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I won't pretend like I'm some kind of spectacular dancer, but for some reason I was feeling it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“My daughter was a dancer. She was very good, too.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had tried to tell her that he was just trying to find the fire dancer, but she wasn’t listening and he had given up, thankful for the hugs and the silence. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I consider her to be a very able headmistress — and an excellent dancer,” said Dumbledore quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Trade silver tokens, bracelets, armbands, crosses flashed and ribbons swirled as the dancers moved in joy and excitement, crying out for another song as soon as each was done. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Gael, come here. Why don’t you two show them your dance for the Mexican Independence Day parade? We have a float that features our dancers every year.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was just as well; the recent growth spurt had left him looking gangly and uncoordinated, he was probably no better a dancer than I was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She shook her head at the dancer, who had since reached in her basket and extracted three more dolls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The dancers rushed forward, picked up the snakes and ran out of the square. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers shimmered, their sleek shaved bodies covered with a fine sheen of oil. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel went over to join the small group watching the dancer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He gestured to Meggie's mother to step back from the grating and retreated himself, nimble as a dancer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They let the other dancers, the swirling paintings, the whole spinning city around them fade into a colorful blur. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“So, who knew you were this amazing dancer?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I told her she was a good dancer, and asked her where she’d learned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also told him that we were dancers and had a group in Mattru Jong, where we used to attend school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus bushes lean over floating purple flowers like dancers trying to glimpse their own reflections. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure there’s some explanation. Prizes, probably. Best dancer, best rap, most outrageous outfit—that kind of thing.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Then don’t be afraid. You have to put yourself out there, Amina, and do you. Unless...Marian is a dancer. In that case, skip it for sure.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actors, dancers, a Komedie Brute troupe, and the best talent from the pleasure houses of West Stave.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When you’re poor you don’t have cars or nice clothes, but the best dancer gets girls, so that’s the guy you want to roll with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You and my brother are good dancers,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“When I grow up and become a famous dancer, I’m gonna move far, far away from here.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auditoriums or gymnasiums all lighted up, the band’s chartered bus outside, the dressed-up, excited, local dancers pouring in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would put into the box the dancers and music and the whole theater as if they are perfectly wrapped clothes and jewelry. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Next to the bottles there was a list of all the Paradise products and a kathakali dancer with his face green and skirts swirling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis swiveled on his heels to face the lines of dancers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She moves each of her arms and legs in slow arcs, her eyes following them, like a dancer in slow motion. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Belet's pirouette completed, she slowly lowered her foot like a ballet dancer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Your toes will be sorry. I’m not much of a dancer.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He jerked like one of Saint Vitus’s dancers and dropped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was moving fast—fast like a dancer in a temple ritual, fast like a snake in the Red Desert, fast like water down the side of a mountain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A slightly built former dancer, she worked upstairs as a vice president at Bravo. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m not a good dancer, but I like the beat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think the chicken dancers are cool because, well, they dance like chickens. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Diary, how could a word that rhymes with "dancer" be so bad? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then in the whirl of dancers, I heard Cristiana’s tinkling laugh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She had read about the Imperial Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, where the world’s greatest dancers went to study and perform. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There were costumes and boas and lots of dancers crowded in front of one mirror. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You don’t often find young people as brave as you two boys,” Governor Altvatter said once everyone quieted down after the German slap dancers ended their ridiculous performance. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of the male dancers partnered Mrs. Fanning—who advanced as the dancer withdrew in a pantomine of a cartoon chase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood the Barbie on the table and raised one of the doll's arms and pulled the other out so that the doll was frozen in the pose of the Spanish dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Not the entire time. I watched the dancers some of the time, but I always listened for that instrument with the pointy top...the oboe,” Mia explained. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your friend Libby,” Heidi says, taking my shoulder and gently pushing me back, so a few grown-up dancers can pass us, “told your older brother.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To the left of the celestial dancer, a deep voice let out a powerful laugh. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Made by who? Their masters? Perhaps your dancers would sooner build or bake or farm. Have you asked them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She's a good dancer, too, but her braids keep whipping around and whacking me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The floor had filled with dancers grinding up on each other, and the murals, Sierra noticed, responded in kind. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

To hasten a cure the community constructed a stage and musicians were hired to play soothing dance music so that the dancers might slowly waltz themselves back to good spiritual health. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"What?! I thought you were the best dancer in that class." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think we have the makings of a dancer here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the show progressed, Sandi could see that the dancers' faces were becoming beaded with sweat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So I moved out into the dancers, watching Megan, who was looking right at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even without the half-moon, Alex would have recognized the sleek dancer’s body and the close-cropped hair of the man whose photograph he had seen only a few days before. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the sound of the drumming and singing, these dancers stepped in a counterclockwise circle to commemorate the rotation of the earth, their feet pounding the soft earth, their bells jangling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Other dancers watched their every move, murmuring appreciation, whispering envy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pressed together, thighs, groins, stomachs, like slow-motion, enchanted ballet dancers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when she saw June near Annie Demetrios’s drippy neon painting of a ballet dancer in a leg cast, her stomach flipped and flopped and then started running a marathon around her body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They move like dancers, whirling back and forth across the room, graceful, liquid, deadly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This from a man who reportedly ran around with an exotic dancer in McKeesport throughout all of last winter, according to Mom’s diary. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’s a great dancer and extremely popular with the ladies. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

On her feet were strapped tiny black heels such as the dancers had worn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

With a half smile, I turn back to Taryn, who watches the dancers with longing, oblivious to much else. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The third guard came leaping over them, slashing at the water dancer's head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happy sounds bounce off the walls as everyone gathers onstage—dancers, family, friends. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

By the time they marched, Arya knew she was no water dancer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a red mark on his flamenco dancer’s neck: a bug bite, a fading hickey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Behind my closed eyes thin white dancers flit gracefully among the trees, their legs fluttering like the wings of held birds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like dancers, sinuous and light on their feet, yet there was always something about them that marked them as plainly inhuman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boy from High- garden did something with his legs, and his horse pranced sideways, nimble as a dancer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Too late to be an odori dancer for Papa, too late to be this kind of heroine. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We inched up closer to the circle of dancers waiting, but not too close. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then the music starts, and dancers like me and Cody hop and twirl our way through the clapping reeds. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“A good dancer is recognized by her clothing. You should wear your stockings inside out and never, never wear any underpants.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because in the snow scene, one of the dancers raised the wrong arm and stepped on the wrong foot,” I answered. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only dancer on the stage who seemed to have missed rehearsal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She hopped her dancer right up to the American lady and gave her a bow. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The musicians started to play, and the dancers paired for a stately pavane. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The dancers were in a crowd, so you did not see the intricate play of the feet. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Quiet enough, says Mr. Clohessy, but he’s not the dancer his mother was. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This woman had ruined the act of the beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The thousands of acrobats, singers, dancers, and guests froze at a shocked standstill. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dancers all slid closer, most of them already swing dancing to the tune. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dancers shaking their booties on the floor flashed white light as the obligatory mirror ball spun overhead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Do I look like a Solid Gold dancer?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ashton said you have to be a little bit in love with your dancers to create beauty," Wheeldon says. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z

Ramasar has been under intense scrutiny since 2018, when he and two other male dancers were accused of sending inappropriate texts and photos of other City Ballet dancers. City Ballet Dancer Caught in Texting Scandal Will Retire 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

“I am not a victim in this,” the dancer, Alexa Maxwell, said in a news release. Dancer Tries to Quell ‘West Side Story’ Controversy: ‘I Am Not a Victim’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Masks made a brief appearance until, in the end, the dancers formed a circle before splintering offstage in two lines. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

The 83-year-old dancer glides across the stage, partnering with a filmed version of herself shot more than five decades years ago. Kennedy Center presents dance legend Carmen de Lavallade in theatrical memoir

She takes care of actors, dancers, singers, and even world-class professional athletes. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

When the curtain rises on the program’s centerpiece, Yin Yue’s “One Heartbeat Above One Shadow Below,” the immediate energy of the seven dancers — four men, three women — sweeps through the theater. BalletX Flaunts Its Seriously Absurd Style 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The dancers, Jacquelin Harris and James Gilmer, breathed as one throughout their smooth-flowing number, as did the other “Sinatra Songs” couples. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

If the dancers are asking permission from anyone, or anything, it’s the floor, which they treat with reverence, sometimes kneeling down to touch it before coaxing rhythms from its surface. Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Pite's wit, perfectly embodied by her dancers' lithe movement, is sharp enough to get a few laughs. 'The Tempest Replica': dazzling dance, stage wizardry in Seattle 2012-10-24T19:31:05Z

But one thing I find interesting is that in the Robin Dance, you notice that all the dancers turn around to face the outside, then turn to face the inside. Round (and Hoop, and Eagle and Deer) Dancing on First Avenue 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

I often find myself resisting Mr. Taylor’s dances — so proper, so unfunny — and then relaxing into them, won over by their musicality and by dancers who appear to be completely in their element. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Opens Its Season 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

He had barely reached his teens when he was mesmerized by the street dances sweeping the neighborhood, as dancers twisted, flipped and glided to remixed records and rapid-fire raps. Webcast by a Hip-Hopper Who Cooks 2011-03-26T15:00:17Z

Shocked by the murder, they put the documentary on hold and decided to create a feature film that blends the story of the Zenne dancers with Yildiz's tragedy. Turkish film highlights gay honor killing 2012-01-24T12:16:04Z

Ms. Rowlson-Hall also worked with Ms. Hightower on her physicality throughout the film: How she walks as a boxer is different than as a dancer. ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Two weeks after becoming artistic director, Mr. Filin invited Mr. Hallberg -- then dancing in Moscow with American Ballet Theater - to lunch, and offered him a position as either guest artist or principal dancer. American to Join the Bolshoi Ballet 2011-09-20T19:30:11Z

When I finally gave myself permission to let loose, I began by emulating other dancers whose moves I thought were cool or whose energy I liked. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Like “Socrates,” it made stark use of dancers falling to their “deaths” and of funereal black scrims filling the stage background in changing configurations. Love, death yield mild results from Mark Morris Dance Group 2014-02-15T17:36:00Z

When we judge the health of a company like the Royal, the nationality of its dancers and the integrity of its style are important. The Royal Ballet: just how 'British' do we want it to be? 2013-05-15T15:30:35Z

“That was me dancing as good as I can,” he recalled, adding that he had to work really hard to get the other dancers down to his level. Spike Jonze Can Dance. But His Best Choreography Is Behind the Camera. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

For the dancers involved, the answer may be simple. Giving Budding Choreographers Room to Move 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

From the very first moment it was clear that dancer Jesse Bechard was an Everyman with no escape, as a sharp female voice told us, “This is you.” Hubbard Street Dance Chicago whips up a storm at Wolf Trap 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

As I sip my lukewarm tea, I watch the sunlight from the win­dow casting shapes like little silver dancers across the walls. The sex that helped us survive: Love and defiance in an Iranian prison 2014-03-19T23:00:00Z

We're two weeks from the finale, and I'm exhausted, so I can't even fathom what the actual dancers must be feeling. Jose's got no swagger and Billy's homeless on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-29T12:01:00Z

For many young amateur dancers, it's a rite of passage, a testing ground for their nascent career dreams. 'Getting to the Nutcracker' is a corps story without a dramatic core 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

We think the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to `work it.' 'Twerking' bounces into Oxford dictionary 2013-08-28T06:03:56Z

In the stark and celestial work, Mr. Gehry’s two-tiered set provides a towering stage for Ms. Childs’s kaleidoscopic configurations, executed by 11 dancers. 15 Summer Dance Festivals, Saratoga to Vail 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Walking, as Mr. Taylor knew, doesn’t let a dancer hide. Paul Taylor, a Master of Light and Darkness 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

What does a ballet tell us about its dancers? City Ballet’s Season of Renewal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Among Mr. Curry’s fellow dancers was Christopher Tierney, who suffered extensive injuries during the fourth week of performances when he fell 20 feet from an elevated ramp into the basement beneath the stage. Injured ‘Spider-Man’ Dancer Discusses His Lawsuit 2014-02-26T22:41:23Z

Reviews of the Parisian opening were mixed, partly because Rubinstein, who performed the role of the Fairy, was no great shakes as a dancer. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

She rode a plane for the first time in August to compete in the 2012 Asian Grand Prix ballet competition for students and young dancers in Hong Kong, where she was a finalist.  From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z

The other dancers grasp invisible objects as if they were performing tasks superimposed onto the air. Dance Review: ‘Last Days/First Field,’ by Jill Sigman 2013-05-11T02:06:30Z

While both employ the clarity of Cunningham technique, their more direct connection is that Mr. Crossman, a disarming performer, is one of Ms. Bartosik’s dancers. Review: ‘Bound’ and ‘Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)’ Explore Confinement and Collision 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Theatrical touches are in abundance: the dancers begin the concert by jostling with one another to tell the audience "I am Korhan, this is my dance" or some variation on it. Dance Review: A Turkish Choreographer Inspired by New York 2011-06-27T22:20:35Z

“In a movie we try to put a dancer into a character that we’ve already built, and it’s very difficult because then you’re looking for a very specific thing,” he said. ?Legion of Extraordinary Dancers,? Online Adventure 2010-06-25T04:17:00Z

The dancers also speak, giving little lectures on fugue form and baking. Dance This Week: A ‘Swan Lake’ Must-See and a Yasuko Yokoshi Duet for Twins 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

As Claira Smith, age 16 and a PNB School dancer for 13 years, put it: “My ballet friends are the closest friends I will probably ever have.” PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Whelan said she was never told to lose weight when she was in the company, but she heard stories from other dancers. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Abraham, a phenomenal dancer, is but a heap of sequins on a white floor at the start of “The Realest MC.” Dance Review: Kyle Abraham?s ?Live! The Realest MC? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-12-12T23:34:52Z

The New York City Ballet dancer Gretchen Smith began taking classes last year while recovering from a severe back and hip injury. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s really good to see foreigners embrace our culture,” said professional dancer Marly Baptista. Kizomba - Angola's answer to Salsa - gaining global following 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Whether the emphasis of a movement goes down, up, sideways or around, the dancers cleave the air. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z

Some dancers thought Mr. Millepied was too blunt, Ms. Cappelle said, especially when he asked for changes from “people who have been working in certain ways for 20 or 30 year.” Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The work’s knotty structure shows disarray and order on equal terms, yet it’s continually heavy-handed, as when the three main dancers clutched at each other while the others whipped fabric at them. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

The way King orchestrates his dancers, their bodies are sometimes languorous, sometimes in violent bloom. LINES Ballet: dance, glorious dance 2011-11-18T17:20:05Z

They are from Magritte to his dealer in New York, Alexander Iolas, a one-time Greek ballet dancer, and all are written in very clear and precise handwriting. Magritte on Magritte: letters reveal surrealist Damien Hirst 2011-02-06T17:57:02Z

Mr. Hallberg, 29, who was born in Rapid City, S. D., will hold the coveted status of premier, the Bolshoi term for principal dancer. American to Join the Bolshoi Ballet 2011-09-20T19:30:11Z

The veteran Bharatanatyam dancer Rama Vaidyanathan conveyed all nine of the conventional emotional states in classical Indian theater with dazzling compression. Broad Hints of Modern Angst at a Festival of Indian Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The show started as a series of taped workshops with Broadway dancers, then evolved into a show that opened at the Public Theater in 1975 and moved to Broadway later that year. Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z

Broken into three sections, this evening-length work showed dancers slipping between anger and angst with, at best, a degree of moxie that allowed them occasionally to rise above the superfluous and overly familiar choreographic devices. Dance Review: Expressing the Pain of Being Left Behind 2011-02-06T22:28:14Z

In one rehearsal, he asks a dancer if she “could run starting forever.” Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Highly personal solos are another one of Bausch’s signatures, but we get a better feel for the dancers as individuals in more absurd, theatrical moments. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Performs at BAM 2012-10-20T02:40:07Z

The ladies in question — her backup dancers — were already in place, their heads nodding, like hers, under wide-brimmed black sombreros. Heels on the Ground: Beyoncé and the Army of Women at Her Command 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The landscape is trippy — ominous and enigmatic — as the dancers, taking their time, slowly round over to pick up jackets placed at their feet. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

"SYTYCD" must have great insurance for all the dancers they keep breaking. Guy-on-guy dancing perks up "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-07-15T12:01:00Z

The flamboyant armor of Japanese warriors, theatrical religious paintings, wild choreographies full of untrained dancers, a painter of the Harlem Renaissance, street signage reconsidered and an old East German guardhouse repurposed as art installation site. Datebook: Baroque works, samurai armor, amateur dancing, skid row arts 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

When Proctor won a car on "American Bandstand," "Soul Train's" competition, Cornelius paid the $334.25 in taxes so the struggling dancer could receive his award. Cornelius remembered in NYC as inspiring, generous 2012-02-04T21:56:15Z

That 40-second sound was so complex and alive that dancers in a small circle in front of the stage kept moving toward it, like boxers in training. Music Review: Salome and Landmine Marathon at Union Pool 2010-07-14T21:46:00Z

The series considers how a dancer’s past seeps into the present and, inevitably, into the work of collaborators. Review: Dancing Bodies That Contain Multitudes 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

A new work inspired and performed by Wendy Whelan, the New York City Ballet principal dancer, called "Restless Creature" will be unveiled this summer at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, organizers said on Wednesday. ArtsBeat: An Evening of Dance for Wendy Whelan and More at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2012-12-05T17:54:02Z

With a dozen dancers and his own striking visual designs, Mr. Shen illustrates the tension between shadow and light found in Mr. Beckett’s slim 16-line libretto. A Shen Wei Premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

There was significant audience attrition at the Thursday opening, particularly during the middle section, where the dancers stop circling to stand for what seems like eternity. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson?s ?Devotion Study #1? at Whitney Museum 2012-03-07T00:05:18Z

The Audacious One, a piece by former Phoenix dancer Warren Adams, uses Barack Obama's "audacity of hope" speech to develop a study of political intrigue and power. This week's new dance 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

The sound artist Hahn Rowe, surrounded by instruments and other noisemaking materials — including Bubble Wrap — as well as a computer, also occupies the stage with the dancers, who begin to separate from one another. Zurich Meets New York Festival Offers ‘In Disguise’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

“The wings are enormous, but the puppeteers and dancers were game,” the photographer, Sasha Arutyunova, said of shooting in the alley next to the Broadway production of “Angels in America.” Photos We Loved in 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

“For dancers, you need a solid core foundation to achieve the perfect movement at the perfect moment — you need that core stability.” ‘I Wish I Got Pregnant in March!’ Inside the Dance Baby Boom. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

It’s the “swirl of life” that will fill the void he leaves, a force that King’s choreography gives form to in a swirl of dancers. ‘Last Ward’ Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dirt to Dirt 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Like this “Beauty,” dancers are works in progress. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Evolves at the Royal Opera House 2014-02-25T22:34:51Z

It rarely misses an opportunity to flaunt its allurements, including a lively cadre of dancers and lovely sets by David Rockwell that evoke Miami and the old Havana gracefully. Review: ‘On Your Feet!’ Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Two women – dressed sparingly and sparklingly, like club dancers – call the numbers, in Rebel Bingo lingo: “Up the bum, no harm done, 31.” Bingo is back – and even the hipsters have got their eyes down 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

He displayed quiet confidence as a dancer in that nostalgic movie musical, with more ease in choreographed motion than his Oscar-winning co-star, Emma Stone. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

In this exhibition, the point of departure is 1960, when Ms. Halprin, the revered dancer and educator, taught an experimental workshop in Northern California. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“The dancers can’t leave the club to get food, and in some clubs they let the cook go early to save money. Nothing is geared towards the women who work there,” Newton told SWNS. Oregon chef caters to strippers, dominatrixes with late-night meal service: ‘Options for food shouldn’t just be Taco Bell’ 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The dancers worked on these steps for months. The Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

But for Wenders, it was the inability to recreate the element of space, through which the dancers move, that was the main stumbling block. 3D dance takes a great leap forward 2010-09-28T21:15:00Z

Work by Matthew Bourne, Wayne McGregor and Russell Maliphant can fill the largest venues, and the profession employs thousands of choreographers, dancers, teachers and administrators. The Place: dreams in a drill hall 2010-05-11T21:30:00Z

It’s classical clichés pummeled with rock dynamics, a fair analogue for what Mr. Rhoden does with his dancers’ extraordinary technique. Dance Review: Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce - Review 2011-11-23T00:17:41Z

Its French dancer, with her pink diamond parasol and lace skirt, brings together jeweled flowers, including a chrysanthemum with yellow diamonds as its curly petals. Special Report: Fashion: Magic of the Sea 2011-07-07T17:48:09Z

Solo dancers convey the solitude of the artist in flashes of high vigor or transporting calm. ‘Walking With ’Trane’: A dance ode to the art of John Coltrane 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Their works emphasized the dancers’ liquid ease of movement, their surprise quickness and their serenity in sailing through the most devilishly abandoned, limb-flinging feats of cannonball force. Review | San Francisco Ballet takes the Kennedy Center stage with six bold new works 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

“There was this creature completely unlike any young dancer I had seen,” he said. War Brings New Iron Curtain Down on Russia’s Storied Ballet Stages 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The dancer Cecily Campbell is alone onstage when you begin to hear it: the faint sound of a marching band floating through the silence. Review: Trisha Brown’s Mischief, Mystery and Delicate Aberrations 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Lucas noted, that determination is strongest among the dancers. A Home Version of Trisha Brown’s ‘Roof Piece,’ No Roof Required 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to keep them from having to dance in nightclubs. They were serious dancers and deserved the opportunity to be treated as such.” Tina Ramirez, Founder of a Leading Hispanic Dance Troupe, Dies at 92 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Among the Asian finalists are 16 dancers from the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Asian dancers dominating ballet competition 2010-06-21T19:24:00Z

It’s a shame for us all that Nikolaj Hübbe, the artistic director of the Danish company, saved the best till last: not just the old ballets but also this wealth of young dancers. Dance Review: A Vision Glimpsed Through the Window, and Its Consequences 2011-06-20T22:07:30Z

The dancer left a career in finance in Maryland two years ago to follow her showgirl dreams. Vegas dance community remembers slain performer 2011-01-15T00:42:08Z

Over the course of three nights, in addition to Meraux, I saw a juggler, street musicians, burlesque dancers and drummers from Zambia and South Africa on a hospitality exchange program with Animal Kingdom Lodge. Magical and Not-So-Magical Moments in Disney’s Adults-Mostly, Artificial Paradise 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

His dancers are as accomplished as ever – it's great to see Shila Tirabassi back in London – and the piece is watertight in its crafting. Stephen Petronio Company; Onegin ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

The concept of the video is to put Ms. Swift in the position of a pop star or R&B diva or rapper, fronting backup dancers. Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' Video: A Dance Critic's Take 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Many dancers have stories like Myklukha’s about leaving home, but she is among the lucky few to have found a new position abroad. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

He first appeared on TV in 1939 as a child dancer on a show called “Come and Be Televised.” Bruce Forsyth, 89, Cheeky Fixture of British TV, Is Dead 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The dancers wore blocks on their feet and carried giant sticks. The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Instead, I watch on Zoom as more than 100 dancers and crew members cram into the theater to listen to Madeleine Onne, the company’s artistic director, welcome everyone. Diary of an American in Finland, Doing ‘Essential’ Work in Ballet 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Or the role that Ninette de Valois — the dancer, choreographer and teacher — played in establishing ballet in Britain when, in 1931, she founded the company that eventually became the Royal Ballet. Breaking the Glass Slipper: Where Are the Female Choreographers? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Writing in The Times, Gia Kourlas called it “ambitious and bold with luscious, full-bodied dancing,” adding that, performing it, the Ballet Theater dancers “were transformed with a renewed sense of purpose and promise.” Alexei Ratmansky, Renowned Choreographer, to Join City Ballet 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

As for Wu, he noted in the filmed interview that he had initially thought to clothe his dancers for "ten in seven" in black and white. Fashion fuses with dance at City Ballet gala 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The dancers were taking the spotlight, and Horn showed that, after all, he had a rapport with the kids. Remembering Dick Clark: The Bandstand Years 2012-04-18T22:50:00Z

Not only did this dancer exemplify the issues of black female beauty that were addressed in the songs, she also showed the most lyrically flowing aspects of break-dancing, and took them through several changes. Review: With ‘Breakin’ Convention,’ a Hip-Hop Festival Impresses at the Apollo 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

The main reason I chose these dancers is because they not only are amazing technicians, but most importantly, because of their artistry. Star ballerina Tiler Peck is in L.A. to prove that BalletNow goes far beyond ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The younger Kuti’s group, Positive Force, featured nine musicians and three female dancers who occasionally sang or beat hand-held percussion instruments. Femi Kuti’s energy is as tireless as his message during 9:30 Club concert 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Certain dancers fade into the background, while others, desperate to please, pour it on too thick. Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey?s ?Tool Is Loot? 2011-09-21T22:23:13Z

Mr. Woetzel remains well known in New York from his days as a principal dancer with City Ballet, and his sensibility and contacts remain New York-centric. A Rocky Mountain Dance Festival Makes its Way to New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Make a not-just-potato salad, letting the spuds be the backup dancer instead of the star. 6 Ways to Spice Up Your Potato Salad 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

For ballerinas in particular, there is a mysterious transference between coach and dancer. dance: Ballet Theater?s Ballet Mistresses and Coaches 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

So if you grow up as a dancer, it’s terrifying, it’s numbing. A Word With: Mark Morris: Cracking Open A Holiday Classic 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z

If, in dance, the body is a living archive — doesn’t a dancer store and preserve movement over time? Review: Adam H. Weinert’s ‘Monument’ at the 92nd Street Y 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

So even though eight of the 25 dancers filling the stage on Friday were on loan from the Memphis-based Collage Dance Collective, it was affecting to see the stage filled, no matter how. Review: With ‘Dougla,’ Dance Theater of Harlem Recalls Past Glory 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ahead of their return to London this weekend, Patuelli and three other dancers speak about dancing through deafness and cancer – and the maverick potential of crutches. ILL-Abilities: the b-boy supercrew taking on the able-bodied 2013-05-02T16:32:51Z

Once or twice, he gets some oppositional forces going, a line of dancers holding still as another line eats space. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

The dancers orbit around one another in silence, performing austere moves dense with emotion. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

By troops, he meant the band, the backup singers and dancers, stage builders, the pyrotechnics crew, security guards, managers, bus drivers and all the other people involved in the high-stakes business of live entertainment. Less Cocaine, More Vegetables: Concert Tour Cooking Goes Healthy 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

The dancers seem to be flying apart; tango steps are fragmented and finally evaporate altogether in a moving central duet, which felt like air, like the breeze outside on the marble terrace, romantic and soft. Chamber Dance Project sweeps in like a cool breeze

The music is part of what inspired her to incorporate partnering in “Into View,” a Joyce commission for 11 dancers set to Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld’s “The Sun Roars Into View.” A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

He taught that portion of choreography to the Dutch dancers back in Amsterdam, so they were ready for the rest when Wheeldon arrived there to finish making the ballet. The stylish imagination behind Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

In the 90-minute “Crowd,” the dancers portray characters, created with Cooper, as they inhabit the night. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Nearly 80 percent of City Ballet dancers attend Fordham, which is near Lincoln Center. Clearing the Stage for a Big Graduation Number at City Ballet 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

As the episode progressed, the dancers designated Melanie Moore their favorite contestant. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

“He is in command; the other dancers look up to him.” Robert Fairchild Crosses Back to Ballet, Gershwin in Tow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Scottish pipe bands, Highland dancers, traditional Scottish athletic events, food and craft vendors, Scottish animals, clan tents, Celtic performers; 5:30-11 p.m. Community calendar 2012-07-25T17:48:06Z

And it recently reached a deal on a new contract with the union that represents its chorus, soloists, dancers and stage managers, among others. ‘We Are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

For instance, they can’t all do “Swan Lake,” even a small “Swan Lake,” especially when the dancers are pulled together from various other endeavors for just a few performances. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’

The hands of one dancer begin to pulse, the torso of another to rotate. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the event is competitive, with regular eliminations of participants and a gradual ratcheting-up of tension towards the final dance-off, though dancers eliminated early, were encouraged to keep on dancing non-competitively. Dance Marathon aims to exhaust Edinburgh festivalgoers 2011-08-05T17:28:06Z

He was also perceived as a protégé of Mr. Robbins’s — the choreographer had not only mentored the young dancer, but had also introduced him to his inner circle of patrons. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

Midway through the corridor, the procession is interrupted by a set of screens that every quarter-hour plays a 3-minute video work showing the movements of dancers wearing the tiled Soundsuits on adjacent walls. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

After a long day at the writing desk, I will play around with my dance moves and stretch like a dancer. Gabriel García Márquez in the Eyes of Those Who Knew Him 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

"Being a one-man administrator and artistic head is tough," says Cole, whose COLEctive after 15 years consists of nine dancers. Chicago's dance renaissance 2011-01-08T06:00:00Z

Ms. Olsen recalled that George Balanchine, the artistic director of New York City Ballet, begrudgingly bestowed the epithet Black Magic on Ms. Black when some of his dancers defected to her classes. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

That was it for the duration: ankle rolling, hamstring stretching, droopy pliés and, yes, even a dancer on her back extending her legs up one of the columns. Dance Review: Parallels at Danspace Project 2012-02-11T00:50:09Z

Worlds collide ... dancers perform while a scientist reads in Cern's library. Dancing in the Cern library – let's get physical 2012-07-16T18:31:00Z

In July, the Bolshoi Theatre postponed the world premiere of Nureyev, an edgy ballet about the famous Russian dancer which was directed by Serebrennikov. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Few of the principal dancers who knew Balanchine most closely continue on as coaches or teachers under Martins. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

For half an hour, security men in camouflage with guns surrounded the field, while players stretched in the outfield and dancers danced on the dugout. The Lure of Baseball in the Dominican Republic 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Theirs is a story of dancers finding a voice in a very public way, and drawing strength from one another. Perspective | Why this is the moment for dancers to behave badly 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

As the opening chords rang out, a troupe of transgender and cross-dressing dancers joined the band onstage. Arcade Fire warm Glastonbury crowd 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

One of its dancers, Tijen Lawton, learned while the company was on tour that her brother, a photojournalist, had been killed while he was covering the conflict in Kosovo. | 'The Deer House': Grazing in Dark Woods of the Human Soul 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

“But just the other day she told me: ‘You know, Mom, I think I talked myself out of being a dancer because of you. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z

Some company Web sites and printed programs list who each dancer is “sponsored by,” turning an artist into a billboard for a benefactor’s name. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical

There is a buoyant quality to her choreography that takes on greater resonance through the visual design of Jim Findlay, whose video work creates worlds within worlds, as the four dancers interact with three screens. Dance Review: Deganit Shemy & Company at the Chocolate Factory 2012-06-22T21:21:15Z

Amiya Brown's lighting, shaping the space around the dancers in striking ways, was also key. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z

And if all else fails, this multicompany presentation features a wealth of exceptional dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and beyond. Joyce Theater Ballet Festival Showcases Contemporary Choreographers 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is alleviated by the wonderful stage manners of the Morris dancers, who keep integrating the singers into the stage world as best they can. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

Will the recent outcry change anything for dancers? What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

He added: “In every company there is a group of upset dancers, but that’s not the majority,” he said. Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

In “Infra” that world is recognizably our own as the dancers coalesce into pas de deux and groups, then dissolve into solitude. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z

Chanted by the other dancers, with weird leaps to Chipmunk pitch, it’s no more intelligible. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance Theater Plays BAM Fisher 2013-09-05T20:20:56Z

Nobody showed this better than Matthew Renko, a corps dancer who brings an all-out valor to his performing. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Behind them, a video tribute captured dancers filling in the blank, “Coyaba brings _____ to life.” Coyaba performs at Dance Palace 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

A dancer wove her way through a bar, muttering about kittens. It’s a Theater, With Craft Beer and D.J.s Until 6 a.m. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

They include Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater principal, as an aspiring dancer, who lives with her aspiring dancer boyfriend, played by the A.B.T. soloist Calvin Royal III, and pole dances to make ends meet. The Pirelli Calendar Finally Makes Women Subjects Instead of Objects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A former social club with broad hallways and a majestic marble staircase, this is where the creme de la creme of young dancers from across the country train for a shot at stardom. Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school 2013-04-13T08:01:04Z

But discipline has always been a hallmark of Tharp — her own rigorous work ethic and the heroic possibilities she mines from dancers. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

One of the new films, it nods to the Age of Covid by separating the dancers into individually filmed boxes, then juxtaposing the boxes onscreen, which emphasizes the counterpoints and musical timings of the choreography. A William Forsythe Sampler, JoyceStream and Bourne’s Legacy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The jury is still out on Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Riener as choreographers, but the two, a duo since their days with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, are among the great dancers of our day. Dance This Week: Tap History, the Bill at the Joyce and an Award 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

IN Berlin, artists collaborate with dancers and fashion designers — and, perhaps more surprisingly, with chefs. Heads Up: Art Meets Food in Berlin 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z

She worked as a dancer and then acted in Tamil soap operas before joining the news channel. India gets its first transgender TV news anchor: newspaper 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

It’s an attitude that he tried to convey to the It’s Showtime NYC dancers in their first moments together. Faustin Linyekula: Remember His Name (and Country and Past) 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

When the dancers joined the band, the music locked into its most hypnotic momentum, at once visceral and timeless. Review: Feedel Band and the Libyans, African Sounds at the Global Beat Festival 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

And, as he shows, a dancer knows how to let go. When Extremes Attract: Dance and Horror’s New Pas de Deux 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Feliz falls into the world of the Wendigo — masked, crouching dancers who grab her feet as she tries to walk — and is passed over their hulking forms. Review: Delayed by the Pandemic, Pilobolus Celebrates Its 50th 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

When a dancer leaves the Cunningham Company, there is a tradition where the remaining members honor the exiting dancer with a tribute show of highlights and bloopers. ArtsBeat Blog: Drawing Dance: Preparing to Say Farewell 2011-10-03T19:30:42Z

The dancer Timothy Edwards, looking buxom and clueless in a garish blond wig, lip-synced so well that the odiousness of Ms. Wallace’s words was heightened, along with her ridiculousness. Dance Review: Insects Flee, and Kitty Seeks Revenge 2011-05-22T20:58:11Z

Dirty Martini, who like the other dancers goes by her stage name, defended the New Burlesque as a feminist movement. Burlesque dancers take central stage at Cannes 2010-05-13T14:09:00Z

And in some ways, they are Ailey dancers. Robert Battle Finally Has His Steps in the Spotlight 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Mr. Blanc, whom many will remember as a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, is a novice at dance-making; Mr. Wheeldon has been choreographing for world-class dancers for 20 years. New York City Ballet Opens a Spring Gala, and Some Umbrellas 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Edgar Degas’s reputation largely rests on his paintings of horse racing and dancers, portraits and genre scenes. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Degas and the Nude 2012-04-03T18:21:31Z

The ceremony, she added, “bears witness to the rightful inclusion and immense beauty of those dancers whose physicality defies convention and expectation within the dance world.” At Bessie Awards, Joy and Diversity, and Gathering in Person 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

When Ms. Ashley retired from City Ballet as a principal in 1997 at the age of 46, she faced the problem nearly all ballet dancers face: How would she remake her life? Merrill Ashley Is in Focus at the Dance on Camera Festival 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The dancers were helped by spooky side-lighting and rural chic costumes, and they ended by parading giant masks of a boar and a unicorn. The Furnace – review 2013-04-02T17:01:01Z

To join her as she plays with a band of excellent musicians and tap dancers is still a joy. Review: Ayodele Casel Returns to the Joyce With ‘Chasing Magic’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Millepied, 35, is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, but has no previous ties to the company, and is known for his innovative work outside classical ballet. Fancy footwork 2013-01-25T12:21:34Z

Throughout “The Rodin Project” is the uneasy impression that the dancers are merely posing; at times, it looks like a bodybuilding competition. Dance Review: Russell Maliphant’s ‘Rodin Project’ at the Joyce 2012-12-07T20:43:01Z

Diamonds of light fragment the stage, creating isolated pods for the dancers, who keep intersecting and peeling apart, the light fading as Osipova circles in Sambé’s arms. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hilde Koch's "Torque" uses the full stage as its eight dancers shift between speedy angularity and slower stately movements. Review: Seattle Dance Project's 'Project Four' puts more than 4 on the floor 2011-02-03T20:38:03Z

A standout dancer or an especially good premiere can stoke desires for more than the company can reliably deliver, casting the troupe’s modest virtues in the unflattering light of discontent. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In it, she went into a dance studio — only to discover that she wasn’t a dancer, she was a piano player. | Oh Land, the Pop Star Who Can’t Forget Her Moment as a Ballerina 2014-04-18T14:32:30Z

An image of an American flag flickered behind him and an army of dancers accompanied him onstage. Kendrick Lamar wins Grammy for rap/sung performance 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Some of these dancers are very young: Mr. Gordon joined the corps in only July 2012, and Ms. Woodward in December of that year. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z

A child prodigy as a dancer — she liked to joke that if one reversed the syllables in her surname, “Chou-teau” became “Toe-shoe” — Ms. Chouteau started dancing when she was 2 1/2 years old. Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

They learned music and choreography for their own songs and their peers', for which they'll perform as backup singers and dancers. HS students compete for top music theater awards 2010-06-28T20:28:00Z

We saw it in the ubiquitous dancers performing capoeira, a mixture of dance and martial arts, in the town squares. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Two other dancers sued for financial compensation and also settled outside of the public eye. Dancers in Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Had Truths of Their Own 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the third suite, the degree of trust — a mix of abandon and utter self-control — that Jade Solomon Curtis displays in her fellow dancers is awing. Spectrum's triumphant 'Love' is all you need 2012-06-22T17:14:04Z

I’m proud to be a dancer and I strongly encourage any, who would like to try. Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Travolta rehearsed for months to perfect his dance moves, and his white-suited disco dancer became one of the enduring images of the 1970s disco scene. You could be dancing ... on 'Saturday Night Fever' disco floor 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

There was an opera singer wearing a floor-length beauty-pageant dress, a mariachi band heaving instruments to complex choreography, a leggy dancer gyrating in sequins and feathers, and a grandiose Spanish guitar interlude. Mexican ranchera star Juan Gabriel proves he still has what it takes 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The dancers don’t only dominate the space, they also dominate us. Dance Review: Taking the Audience Up Close and Personal, and Beyond Skin Deep 2011-05-13T22:33:10Z

Perhaps the most common motif is dancers riding dancers, and the greatest rider is the petite Larissa Lima. Review: A Parade of People, Pulled by Many Forces 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Four dancers, wearing colorful tunics and shy smiles, crowd around her, including the youngest, 11-year-old Aishani Dash, a student living at the compound with her mother, who helps cook. Inside one of the few places where dancers still perform, founded by a glamorous disco impresario 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Here, the fight against cancer brings together principal dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, as well as the thrilling jookin dancer Lil Buck, among others. Dance Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T22:10:06Z

But Kristin was a dancer, her favorite new movie was about dancing, and she wanted to have some fun. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

This fleet dancer’s usual dazzle seemed to have deserted him on Wednesday, as he rather labored through jumps and turns that would normally be cause for fireworks. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z

The final tableau — with all the dancers surrounding Ms. Mohanty like a close grove, while she alone rippled — haunts the memory. Dance Review: Orissa Dance Academy at Ailey Studios 2013-05-26T19:38:43Z

As in a Robbins ballet, Peck’s dancers come across as real people — young, assertive, full of life. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

By stripping dance of narrative, of emotion and even of the dancer’s gaze — there is no looking at the audience — the steps could shine. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kekhman said their deal included not just higher pay for each performance but also a spacious apartment in Moscow, which the dancers said would remain their hometown. Vladimir Kekhman Lures Osipova and Vasiliev From Bolshoi 2011-11-20T22:58:27Z

Armed and adorned with more of the ornaments that make up the set, the dancers furiously chuck the shiny discs around the room, Baldwin shrieking as she flings them against a wall. Review: In ‘Folds,’ Caught Between Laughter and Grief 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

And on Sunday, he described how knee movement, deep edges and the body’s rise and fall work together to create ice dancers’ speed. Critic’s Notebook: In Olympic Figure Skating, ‘Compete’ Has Replaced ‘Perform’ 2014-02-18T22:52:26Z

Curtseying and winking at the gathered journalists, the five women - real life burlesque dancers from the U.S. - oozed enthusiasm about being at the world's premier cinema showcase. Burlesque dancers take central stage at Cannes 2010-05-13T14:09:00Z

Pas de deux, solos and small groupings follow with almost imperceptible transitions as Carter’s lighting obscures and foregrounds the dancers. Review: At the Royal Ballet, a Landscape and Soundscape With Dance 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

In order for it to live for a new generation of dancers, Mr. Holder brought a hefty object for each of them to hold: a silver-and-turquoise ring that belonged to his father. Bringing Back ‘Dougla’ Is a Family Affair 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The drumming began slowly, with the dancers languidly moving their hips, and the singer repeating a phrase in Swahili that Leo translated as “dance mama dance.” Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z

Now, turns are generally performed to the right; most dancers are right turners. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Her piece begins in silence and dim light, with two dancers standing in an ornately patterned silver cage at the back of the stage, which will later throw a lacy shadow upon the stage. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

In the mid-1950s, Arthur Mitchell essentially broke the color barrier in ballet by becoming the first African-American dancer featured by New York City Ballet. Three things we love this week, Nov. 11-17, 2012 2012-11-07T23:11:12Z

So, he’s not the kind of dancer who cries when he falls out of a turn? An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

As we tuned into ours, the dancers settled into theirs. A Raucous New Festival, With a Friends and Family Vibe 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

"On this last tour she dressed all of the dancers," the singer told the Associated Press. Madonna gets daughter to design her fashion line 2010-03-31T11:41:00Z

The Softest Shoe: Tap in Socks, Even Bare Feet St. Mark’s Church in the East Village is a site of awful temptation for a tap dancer. Dance Review: Michelle Dorrance and Dorrance Dance at St. Mark’s Church 2013-01-22T21:49:07Z

Sarah Hay, an American member of the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, won the part of Claire, a talented, emotionally troubled dancer from Pittsburgh who ends up in a New York City ballet company. ArtsBeat: Dresden Ballet Dancer Wins Lead Role in New Starz Series 2014-01-27T05:09:38Z

The dancers learned all the movement before I walked in for the first rehearsal. Odysseys Into Martha Graham World, One Dramatic, the Other Abstract 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

“I loved the music and the atmosphere, but above all I loved the dancers,” he told The Telegraph. Malick Sidibé, Photographer Known for Social Reportage in Mali, Dies at 80 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

None of these works are easy to perform, particularly for ballet dancers deeply unused to baring the self. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

He even returned each week to cheer on the remaining dancers, saying on Tuesday that "it's turned into a family." J.R. Martinez wins "Dancing With the Stars" 2011-11-23T04:53:58Z

Instead, he said, Mr. Nagy should be appreciated for his overall qualities as “a phenomenally gifted dancer and a great artist.” Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z

Hollywood’s TikTok following exploded after he hit on a formula he calls “organized chaos,” which takes advantage of the narrow vertical TikTok frame by having a large group of dancers move rapidly on and offscreen. TikTok Is Dead (Maybe). Long Live TikTok Dance. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

The Kansas City dancers are delights in their jumps; footwork; full-bodied, three-dimensional shapes; and lively characterization. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

One dancer crouches on the floor, a human boulder. ‘Creative Domain’: Film takes us into mystery of Paul Taylor’s dances 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Filming the duet with a smartphone attached to his cap, he darted back and forth between the dancers, shaking violently when one got too close to the other. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The double engagement also means new opportunities for a significant number of younger dancers. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

“The dancers are so engaged with their faces,” Ms. O’Reilly said. Some Pros Let It Go on TikTok: ‘Is This the Future?’ 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Best new artist contender Lizzo, enjoying a breakout year, performed her hits “Truth Hurts” and “Good as Hell” in a yellow sequined bodysuit, accompanied by plus-size dancers, in a message for body positivity. Swift, Cardi B and Missy Elliott bring girl power to Video Music... 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Townsend spitballed about having competitions to see which dancer could generate the most renewable energy — sustainability as performance art. Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The first focuses primarily on live processing, a performance technique in which video is shown on multiple screens while a dancer attempts to follow and mimic the movement. Dance Review | Koosil-ja: The Body, Visible and Invisible, in Three Parts 2010-03-04T22:48:00Z

“Hearts and Arrows,” in which the dancers wear heeled boots instead of ballet slippers and perform to music by Philip Glass, epitomizes that mix of athleticism and classical form, Peck says. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rocha, who used to teach dance to 4-year-olds, stood with one foot planted firmly in front of the other, pumping her right knee in the manner of a cabaret dancer as she spoke. Coco Rocha, Expanding Her Efforts To Be a Role Model 2012-08-31T21:17:25Z

“Can We Dance Here?” emphasizes the collective, but each dancer also shines on her own. Review: Radiant Artists, With a Percussive Bond 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

I never tire of looking at how he fashions apparently nude dancers in arabesque. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

When Ms. Severs joined the company, she felt Mr. Fabre’s way of pushing dancers, including by shouting at them, delivered better results. Jan Fabre Is Renowned for Pushing Boundaries. Did He Go Too Far With His Dancers? 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

In ballet, where dancers fight to show their best angle, Mr. Huxley is prized for his line and poetic sensibility. Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The three ensuing variations did not achieve the same effect; it was difficult, after the giant projected Graham, to adjust to the smaller scale of live dancers onstage. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

We visited in the evening and an impromptu dance-off between break dancers provided some lively entertainment. 10 of the best rooftop bars in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

She said the hyper-extended positions the dancers achieve are accomplished through years of consistent applied pressure: "We bend those fingers, except the thumb, the four other fingers, we bend it every day, step by step." Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

A passionate Pittsburgh Steelers fan, Mr. Brownlee is also a budding photographer, an avid salsa dancer and a collector of rare Latin music. Top Notes That Shatter The Glass Ceiling 2011-03-11T15:32:57Z

For Radames’s military consecration, bare-breasted dancers poke knives into the chests of bound men, then wipe the blood onto the hero. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z

Toward the end, the dancers attached themselves side to side, an arm around another’s neck. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

“I always wanted to choreograph it for me and Tatiana,” his wife, also a former dancer. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

There is rarely the sense, as there is with greater dancers and choreographers, of a conversation with the composer. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z

"It was a gutsy decision instead of using real opera singers to use dancers because of their dramatic movements." An even more enchanting 'Tales of Hoffmann' after restoration 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

She also became entranced with an article in her mother’s Vogue magazine in which she learned how Balanchine chose a different perfume for each of his favorite dancers. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z

She was particularly good at capturing gestures, or the rapid motion of a dancer, and used shadow to much subtler effect than, say, McBean. Zo? Dominic obituary 2011-01-18T18:28:56Z

In 1984, a New York Times story proclaimed Terese Capucilli “the most powerful dramatic dancer of the decade” for her interpretations of signature roles by the matriarch of modern dance, Martha Graham. Terese Capucilli to Be Feted at Fini International Dance Festival 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Because so many people that work there were also actors, singers and dancers, they were all so excited for me and we were jumping up and down, screaming.” For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

A lot of dancers ended up with speaking parts too, right? Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Though the musical received mixed reviews, Ms. Foster garnered high praise, over all, for conveying the character’s girlish gawkiness, and for her indisputable talents as a singer and dancer. A Big Belter Who Found a True Voice 2011-05-13T23:00:44Z

Mr. Scarlett, who until recently was a Royal Ballet dancer and is now the company’s artist in residence, is a hot property in the ballet world. Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The heart of the program is “dancers working one-on-one with young people, creating a shared experience together,” Joseph V. Melillo, the Brooklyn Academy’s executive producer, said in an interview. U.S. Dance Troupes to Tour Overseas 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Robbins was exacting in how he cast his ballets, tailoring them for specific dancers; that’s how it works in Trockadero, too. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The dancers creep slowly around the darkened stage as if they’re looking for something; a light, seemingly unsupported, extends toward the back of the stage as throbbing feedback fills the space. Dance Review: Changing Ideas Drive Some Celestial Searches 2011-04-08T20:54:47Z

It reminds me of the Parisian ballets of Serge Lifar, where dancers are forever preening themselves and proclaiming “Moi!” without really showing us why they dance. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Throughout much of the evening, the stage, frequently lit in vivid purples, blues and pinks, looked airbrushed with bodies in which dancers slipped from solos and duets into group numbers and back again. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

A photo of the two dancers in “Theme” makes plain Alonso’s firm, upright grandeur, and her corporeal energy that overflows the frame. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame

My greatest achievement is everything that I left behind: I left a wonderful new repertoire and wonderful dancers. Sergei Filin of Bolshoi Ballet Discusses His Work and a 2013 Acid Attack 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Can the ballet dancer learn how to loosen up, lose the turnout, and explore the truly democratic potential of dance? Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

I trained as a dancer until I was 15. How Anya Taylor-Joy Learned to Soothe Herself 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Poets, local singers and dancers also entertained the crowd. Fans toast Jackson on 2nd anniversary of his death 2011-06-27T00:12:10Z

Featuring eight exceptional tap dancers, including Casel, the work, which transforms the stage into a kaleidoscope of vibrant dancing bodies with intricate footwork and ever-changing patterns, is clear about social justice, yet also subtle. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

The backing dancers are dressed, at one point, as various New York landmarks. Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T10:28:00Z

And I mean no rebuke to the choreography when I say that the movement that stays with me most, in the Polovtsian scene, was not from any dancer. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z

At the back, a central doorway is flanked by a ramp and a ledge — all used by dancers — and the stage-right wings are built out, like huge pleats. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Or dancers poised in wide-stretched leg positions will pound a heel to the floor, sometimes with a loud but decelerating pulse. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z

Mr. Mitchell was the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet, where George Balanchine, in 1957, choreographed “Agon,” a ballet featuring a pas de deux with Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Bomer, at that point best known for USA’s series White Collar, provided great support as fellow dancer Ken, but the audience learned little about what made him tick. Matt Bomer on Magic Mike XXL: It's All About Strong Female Characters 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The talent agency CAA threw an instantly infamous party featuring burlesque dancers on poles. Sundance or 'Porndance'? Two decades on from sex, lies and videotape 2013-01-26T14:30:00Z

She worked as a photojournalist, a go-go dancer, and a hostess at the Marquis. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Paul didn’t tell his dancers much about his works. Advice for Running the Paul Taylor Company? ‘Keep Them Laughing’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

I found the one duet between two Skype dancers, side by side on a screen, easier to watch. Review: ‘NOW.’ Uses Technology to Pair Dancers Thousands of Miles Apart 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Remarkably, since Ms. Makarova’s sole experience of staging was setting the “Shades” act for Ballet Theater in 1974, she mounted the elaborate production for Ballet Theater, where she was a principal dancer, almost single-handedly. Dance: Natalia Makarova?s ?Bayad?re? at Ballet Theater 2010-05-13T14:34:00Z

Principally, dancers talk of line as the two-dimensional contour that their three-dimensional bodies describe. Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z

For Krystal Collins, a dancer and choreographer in Silver Spring, Md., TikTok also offers a sense of freedom that other social media outlets don’t. Some Pros Let It Go on TikTok: ‘Is This the Future?’ 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Non-work-related activity”? I hesitate to speak for the women of City Ballet, but it seems that any exchange about a dancer’s body, whether it takes place on or off the job, relates to work. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Dear Carolyn: Until last year, I was a professional ballet dancer. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Injured and dejected, a dancer still manages to leap to conclusions 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

And LaDuca’s aim is to do everything he can for dancers. This Labor Day, These Workers Are Trying to Stay Afloat 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Among the works are a painting, with a concrete frame, of a serpent-wielding dancer and a greenish glass slipper cast in lead crystal. SoHo and TriBeCa, a Cradle of Contemporary Art 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Time unfolds relentlessly here, a limitless resource, marked by a steady stream of precise steps, ballet steps especially, and the dancers’ methodical counting. Jillian Peña’s ‘Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack’ at Danspace 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

He’s a rare dancer, whose big, beautiful legs bring endless texture and plush to jumps; and he’s a fine actor, wonderful in tiny moments of stillness or powerful gestures. Review: Two True Artists, One Dramatically Limp ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

As Gentry, an aspiring dancer from Birmingham, Ala., who became a mother of two and a community garden organizer, put it, “We’ve evolved but we haven’t really changed.” The Original ‘Real World’ Cast Reunites, Older but Still Not Polite 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Each reported a sharp increase in inquiries from highly trained dancers around the country. Los Angeles Is Attracting More Top Dancers 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

And we watch the formal steps and lifts anew, we glimpse something real in the dancers’ eyes. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

It's the way dancers own their bodies, the way they work them, that counts. Judith Mackrell on critiquing dancers' appearances 2011-01-12T22:16:00Z

Dance Project, Mr. Millepied — a former New York City Ballet dancer who will become the director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet in September 2014 — will present his fifth premiere for City Ballet. ArtsBeat: New York City Ballet Announces Fashion-Focused Fall Gala 2013-06-20T18:51:34Z

The dancers don’t even perform for each other as much as for themselves. Review: Dancing for Themselves in an Underworld of Shadows 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

“Are you O.K.?” the choreographer Joshua Bergasse asked his newest dancer during a recent rehearsal for “On the Town” at the Lyric Theater. David Alvarez on ‘Billy Elliot,’ the Army, and ‘On the Town’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

For the past few years, contemporary dance company Whim W’Him has let dancers choose which emerging choreographers they’d like to work with — often with stellar results. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The expensively refurbished Clore Ballroom is rarely used for dance – a disappointment to the large local community of dancers and a waste of such a facility. Letters: Short-sighted and dangerous cuts to the arts 2011-04-01T23:05:41Z

As Mr. Luckett knows, an injury doesn’t always allow a dancer to reach another artistic dimension. 2010-02-12T17:24:00Z

The dancers aren’t depicting emotion, yet we find ourselves powerfully moved. How This London Troupe Takes You to the Heart of Dance 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Even more intensely than a musical quartet, the dancers must maintain the same pulse as a group. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z

Some of this surely stems from Ms. Dinnerstein, who plays center stage, barefoot like the dancers, in a free and unorthodox interpretation that by itself is well worth the price of admission. Review: Choreographer Meets Bach, and It’s a Match 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Victor and I taught those dancers every little step. And they rose to the occasion.” Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

“There’s always the fear of spreading oneself too thin, but Benjamin’s smart enough to know what he’s doing,” said Mr. Hendrickson, the City Ballet dancer. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

Or rather, it’s about a lot of individual performances — and I mean every single dancer, singer and band member — forming a collective whole in which singular style is never sacrificed. Theater Review: ‘Fela!’ on Broadway at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-07-13T02:00:00Z

Mr. 17, the band’s main dancer, was the oldest contestant in the competition at age 31. ‘Plus-size’ boy band in China seeks to inspire fans 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

For all three dancers, the snapped tendon derailed their careers. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was the final dancer chosen for the company by George Balanchine himself. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

“It’s very, very hard, so I end up feeling like a bad dancer, but I don’t hurt myself, and I think it’s really smart.” A Ballet Teacher Changes the Rules 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

But when the Mariinsky Ballet is off, its dancers look unable to forget anything about their prestigious past: They look imperiously jaded or just lifelessly faithful. Mariinsky Ballet Concludes Brooklyn Run With Chopin 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The true showgirl moves like the dancer she trained for years to become. The sad demise and curious afterlife of the Vegas showgirl 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

What is the worst thing someone can say to a ballet dancer? Just Asking: Francesca Dugarte, ballet dancer

Listing the names of dozens of Costello tunes as well as a few categories, the multi-color wheel anchored a kitschy display that included a go-go dancer platform and dumpy cocktail lounge. Elvis Costello's wheel of fortunate songs makes for thrilling show 2011-05-16T13:47:00Z

Here, as in “In the Cold Room” and in a solo for Carson, “Selling Out,” the dancers often seemed at war with themselves. Breathtaking ‘By the Inch’ at the American Dance Institute

And Saratoga’s vintage spot, according to several dancers, is the Reruns Consignment Shop — “the best vintage store in the world,” Ms. Smith declared. Dance at Mount Tremper, Saratoga and Jacob?s Pillow 2010-07-15T21:59:00Z

One of his first moves was to hire David Hallberg, of American Ballet Theatre, as the Bolshoi’s first American principal dancer. Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director Sergei Filin back at work after health scare

Some dancers go to make political statements; some want memorable photos. In Richmond, Black Dance Claims a Space Near Robert E. Lee 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Compounding the Martins scandal, three male dancers also were forced out over vulgar photos of women circulated in text messages. New York City Ballet names new leaders, post-Peter Martins 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the background is the dancer La Goulue, while the room itself melts into a curtain of abstract colour. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

Lizzo agrees that there is a long way to go for big dancers to be taken seriously and treated well in the dance industry. Lizzo’s ‘Big Grrrls’ Asks Big Questions 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

I don’t stage ballets by showing the dancers a film of the ballet they’re going to learn. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Largest in scale is "Too Many to Recount," which will feature eight dancers drawn from Coriolis and The Offshore Project. Seattle's Coriolis, Offshore Project join forces for weekend of dance 2012-05-09T22:18:10Z

His dancers waddle like storks, skim the ground squatting, bend deeply in every direction. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

At the New Hyundai Core colatec, a dance instructor walked around the dance hall searching for dancers who looked lost or lonely. In daytime discos, South Korea's elderly find escape from anxiety 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

But with the help of an ensemble that wisely includes some older dancers, Ashford avoids leaping coffee breaks and most of the other cliches of office choreography. Look Ma, Harry Potter's dancing 2011-03-28T00:19:45Z

And yet these same dancers are a bright spark in the day, a moment of unregulated beauty, artists with talents unimaginable to their audience. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Born in Hong Kong to a Filipino jazz musician and an Australian dancer and television personality, Mendoza grew up in Sydney and Melbourne, with five artistically inclined siblings, and has led a nomadic life. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Has a New Satine. She’s Amazed She’s Back on Broadway. 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In the spare “Primitive Mysteries,” inspired by the rituals of Native Americans in the Southwest, the dancers must move and breathe as one. Early Martha Graham: Deep Movement, Eternal Mysteries 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Career: Was principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Portrait of the artist: Wayne Sleep, dancer 2010-07-26T21:15:00Z

“I saw every single dancer go through their own emotional journey throughout the 18 minutes,” he said. This Is a Protest Dance: Alvin Ailey Performs to Beyonce’s ‘Freedom’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The camera’s point of view is the dancers’, not the customers’. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Saudis provided a midnight supper complete with a belly dancer. Ballgowns, tuxedos, champagne: The last real ball in Washington is a relic of the past 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

We would do well to believe her: A dancer by trade and a firestarter by inclination, she prowls the streets of Valparaíso, swathed in protective gear and brandishing a flamethrower. ‘Ema’ Review: Maternal Flame 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

The book’s final pages find him spending Friday afternoons as a volunteer dancer in a class of senior citizens with Alzheimer’s, an experience that unexpectedly helps him overcome his own social insecurities. Misty Copeland Pirouettes Through Two Books on Dance 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

It features two guitarists, three singers and three dancers; on Tuesday, Ms. Barrio was the only woman. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z

I felt dancers in the company curious and watching. ArtsBeat Blog: Hallberg Discusses Debut as Bolshoi Principal Dancer 2011-11-09T15:59:22Z

Just five weeks before that rehearsal, Kingsley-Garner, a principal dancer with Scottish Ballet, was still apprehensive about tackling the role — her first since having a baby last summer. Bringing Consent to Ballet, One Intimacy Workshop at a Time 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Soon other dancers follow, as if emerging from an underworld. Review: Spectrum Dance Theater delivers meaty moves, but the audio trimmings are too much 2011-03-04T17:40:04Z

Set to Jonathan Melville Pratt’s propulsive score, the work uses the dancers’ raw exuberance to its advantage. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z

It’s not the dancers’ technique that concerns him — it’s making sure the audience follows the story. Poetry in motion: Mariinsky Ballet brings Russian fairy tale to the stage 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

It's just something that happens; as dancers we work with our bodies and that is part of who and what we are. Royal Ballet star Alina Cojocaru to join Tamara Rojo at English National Ballet 2013-07-15T15:37:02Z

Huffman stands out as a Communist sympathizing dancer who good-naturedly butts head with Miles but ultimately ends up just as jaded as her friend. Review: Nathan Lane shines in 'The Nance' 2013-04-16T01:16:05Z

He said he wanted a unique look for nearly every dancer in order for each to appear as authentic as possible, like “people meeting on the street.” Opening Ceremony Swaps the Runway for the Ballet Stage 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Yet because touch is a requirement of the job, dancers have historically been discouraged from speaking up when they feel uncomfortable. Bringing Consent to Ballet, One Intimacy Workshop at a Time 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

It's dizzyingly energetic, but for the dancers, performing is about more than pretty costumes. Bailadores de Bronce dance troupe celebrates 40th anniversary 2012-04-13T22:24:04Z

Taking over her parts is another spirited dancer: Georgina Pazcoguin, the New York City Ballet soloist who has appeared on Broadway and can blaze her way across a stage. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

And I think moments like that come in every dancer’s life where you have to take stock. Ariana DeBose on Hosting the Tonys: ‘Whatever We Do Is Going to Be Fun’ 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

He didn't have to romance a girl, or pretend his partner on stage broke his heart, and it allowed him to just be a dancer. Guy-on-guy dancing perks up "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-07-15T12:01:00Z

Beyoncé matched her female dancers nearly strut for strut and shimmy for shimmy. Music Review: Beyoncé’s ‘Mrs. Carter Show’ at Izod Center 2013-08-01T16:19:36Z

Hospitalised for mental illness as a teenager, Avril was mocked by some as a crazy dancer whose legs spun all over the stage while her face remained a mask of misery. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z

In a sense they’re dancers, both embittered and prone to diva behavior. Dance Review: No Moving to Speak of, but Plenty of Speaking 2010-12-17T22:40:02Z

Her new solo, "Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light But Never Warmth," was inspired by the life of legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 2 young choreographers to watch in Seattle 2011-11-16T03:43:25Z

In the expressionless faces of the dancers, and the cool distances between them, I never quite saw the human dimension. ‘Vortex Temporum,’ a Sensual Blend of Music and Dance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Despite the promise of debuts by several dancers on Wednesday night, Jerome Robbins’s “The Cage” and George Balanchine’s “Cortège Hongrois” eclipsed two other ballets with little effort. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education. Bolshoi Ballet Academy to see first U.S. graduate 2012-01-31T12:40:50Z

How CND2 will reinvent itself remains to be seen; these dancers are ready for greater things. Dance Review: Proceeding Nacho Duato-Style, Like Fish Darting Through Water 2011-04-03T22:00:04Z

At the end of the sequence, the dancers sit side-by-side but don't look at each other. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z

A gaggle of male dancers accented the performance with up-to-the-second Atlanta dance moves, and sometimes Future joined them, rare moments when he appeared loose and fully engaged. Review: Future and Migos, Onstage With Their Hits on Shuffle 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Listen to each other,” Mr. Mitchell urged the dancers. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

While the Ailey company knows how to cater to audiences, a more gratifying truth has emerged: The dancers are also generous with choreographers. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z

It made a huge difference, simply being able to study actual footage: from pioneering Indian dancer Ram Gopal performing in 1948, to a gallery of old Soviet ballerinas. Judith Mackrell on the Oxford Dictionary of Dance 2010-08-25T20:45:00Z

His father, a musician and bandleader, died when he was 4, and he was raised by his mother, a ballet dancer. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Most — not all —Royal dancers were otherwise as delectable as their choreography allowed. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Levi is a deft emotional choreographer, and Chastain and Isaac are the dancers you want executing the steps. Review: In ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ a Couple Unhappy in the Same Way 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

All dancers, but in particular those devoted to ballet, spend their lives in front of mirrors. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z

But there is a sense of being watched, especially when one dancer is shadowed by another behind a curtain. REDCAT opens new work festival with a theme of displacement 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Playing Ariel, a role originated by Lori Singer in the original movie, involved some dancing, but ironically the character -- a rebellious preacher's daughter in small town Georgia -- is not supposed to be a good dancer. Julianne Hough dances into movies with "Burlesque" 2010-11-23T21:01:00Z

Most City Ballet dancers tackle a minimum of two roles each during the run of “The Nutcracker.” Fresh Dewdrops for New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Much of the production’s overall character came from the vibrancy of South Africa, and particularly the extraordinary dancer Dada Masilo, who mirrored Kentridge’s purpose, in part, by becoming the manifestation of a supercharged elementary particle. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

As a professional dancer, she must perform when her heart is breaking. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Production of ‘La Bayadère’ 2012-05-29T22:16:53Z

Last year, she collaborated with Jay Donn, a flex dancer, to find harmony in their disparate styles. Dance Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Every injury to a 37-year-old athlete, or dancer for that matter, feels monumental, and this is Federer we are talking about. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Freed of the elaborate costumes, sets and narrative weight of story ballets, or the frequently thumping music and frenetic movement of more contemporary works, the dancers on opening night found room to create a world. 'All Balanchine,' all beautiful, at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-04-16T19:00:00Z

The goal: Elevate the show above just a popularity contest by keeping a talented dancer in the contest. 'Dancing With the Stars': Can anyone catch Hines Ward? 2011-05-17T04:10:27Z

Freed's dancers are mostly from Europe, North America and Taiwan. Shen Yun dance troupe sheds light on Falun Gong 2010-12-28T00:15:13Z

And as in other parts of the series, more performers emerged from the audience as the show progressed; Mr. Poe and Mr. Beacham recruit local dancers wherever they tour, bolstering their core ensemble. Tossing and Catching Rhythms on Stages and City Streets 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

With the advent of glasnost, however, Bolshoi dancers wanted access to the hitherto forbidden repertory of the west. Sex, politics and intrigue at the Bolshoi 2011-03-23T19:00:01Z

By this point, the lights are swirling like the aurora borealis and the undulant dancers are waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care. Review: An Afrofuturist Trip to the Lunarverse 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Twenty dancers will perform original pieces choreographed by ballet artistic director and CEO Paul Vasterling. The Band Perry helps Nashville Ballet honor Tharp 2011-02-28T20:43:08Z

Perhaps for that reason, with each return of the work’s central dancer, identified in the program as “The Burden Bearer,” my heart sank. Review: The Limón Dance Company Navigates the Present 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

‘It’s all about illusion’ … a dancer rehearses for The Drowned Man. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z

You can see his exacting eye for expression in a new generation of dancers in the 2004 DVD of an American Ballet Theatre performance of “The Dream.” Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD

With the help of 40 professional dancers, nine choreographers push the genre into new territory. Dance Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The four dancers performed with ardor and understanding. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z

It’s a quality painters, sculptors and dancers strive for; Wellman, who had no fine-arts background and not much formal education of any kind, appears to have had it in his bones. William Wellman Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-02-12T07:47:46Z

Seeking to extend that collaboration and to give flex dancers opportunities to experiment outside the battle format, he has been bringing them into projects in a realm he knows well, the world of concert dance. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

“I thought it would be so interesting to tell the story of the dancers and Don, in connection and in contrast and in contradiction and in conflict with each other.” A ‘Soul Train’ Musical Sets Its Sights on Broadway 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Because there’s not quite enough legroom before he hits the coffee table, his limbs are spread wide, in a casual demonstration of hip flexibility only a dancer could manage. Dancemaker Bill T. Jones isn’t always sure art is useful. Here’s why he keeps at it. 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

But, he told People, tap remained at the core of his sensibility as a dancer. Richard Cragun of the Stuttgart Ballet Dies at 67 2012-08-10T23:51:49Z

After explosive, joyful sections paired with Vivaldi — the structure placed the dancers traveling along a predictable diagonal — the traditional dancers mixed in with the others, which at times seemed forced and at times essential. Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

More recently, dancer David Hallberg recounted his path from bullied South Dakota kid to star of the Bolshoi and American Theatre ballets. Review | Actress Alexandra Silber reflects on loss and solace in ‘White Hot Grief Parade’ 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Each dancer was in a markedly different place, yet for all a positive Covid test would mean the same thing: a pause in dancing. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Classical musicians usually alternate with dancers, but Argerich’s appearance this year follows conductor Seiji Ozawa. James Taylor, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The dancers’ manner is very companionate, a mode that, as much as the hellfire, is a Mark Morris trademark. Hooked by Mark Morris 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Nunez compares toe shoes to erections; a dancer’s tutu is “a frilly target board with her crotch for bull’s-eye.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

The dancers were all together on the stage at once and the customers were separated from each other. How working in a strip club taught "Neon Girls" author lessons about unions and solidarity 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The dancers wear various combinations of denim, sneakers, shorts and T-shirts. Review: ‘Scenario’ Embeds Secrets in Its Prose and Pauses 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

But this drought is coming to an end as the festival, now in its 20th edition, returns with two groups of dancers at City Center this week. An Interrupted Conversation: The Flamenco Festival Returns 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

"I said to her: 'If you get so worried, Kirsty, why don't you go and do something else?'" remembers her mother, the dancer and choreographer Jean Newlove. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

Speaking out isn’t the norm in ballet, but in October one dancer brought up the subject of body image. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

He wrote in the statement that he could not bear “to witness how my fellow colleagues, artists, actors, singers, dancers, directors are being menaced, treated disrespectfully and being victims of so called ‘cancel culture.’” Pressed About Putin, Russian Conductor Quits Bolshoi and French Posts 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Strangest collaborative effort: The evening’s Macy’s Stars of Dance performance was a so-called Design a Dance, which asked viewers to vote on a dancer, a song, and an outfit via the Macy’s website. ?Dancing with the Stars?, Week 9 Results: No More Hope 2011-11-16T14:05:40Z

Few ballet dancers are able to be transparent in everyday movement — standing, walking, getting up from the floor. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The dancers float on their backs like fetuses in the womb. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Hurlin is the future of Ballet Theater, the kind of dancer who has a fresh take on story ballets, the company’s bread and butter, and even on arid ones. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps more than any dancer alive, Mr. Trusnovec is an authoritative model of stylistic economy. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-14T22:08:35Z

Ana Vnucec is, in fact, a contemporary dancer, yet the solo she performed on Tuesday at the Abrons Arts Center did show a strong relationship to nude modeling. Bruno Isakovic’s ‘Denuded,’ at Abrons Arts Center 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

I think you came over as a dancer trying to sing rather than a singer trying to dance. "American Idol" recap: The dreamboats have landed 2010-02-25T15:26:00Z

“I like to say I’m a much better doctor than I ever was a dancer!” she said in a Skype conversation. The Bubble Doctor Is In: She Keeps Dance Companies Moving 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Striking frozen shapes — repeatedly one elbow is bent and held horizontally across the chest, while the other is raised — the dancers then sway from side to side, melt their bodies into cascading ripples. Dance Review: ?Juilliard Dances Repertory? at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-03-30T21:31:38Z

During the first two hours of this frothfest of courtly pageantry, vaguely situated in medieval Hungary, were any of the dancers truly enjoying themselves? Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Two dancers walk a pair of other dancers, ostensibly prisoners, like dogs, crawling on their hands and knees, their faces covered by masks. Review: A Dance for Our Times Travels to a Dark Place 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Are most of the dancers from the islands? At Fort Lauderdale’s Mai-Kai, It’s Always Tiki Time 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the on-screen action mirrors the action onstage; sometimes it diverges, a dancer heading for the wings while her film counterpart sticks around. Dance Review: Morphoses, at the Joyce Theater 2012-11-08T22:23:04Z

At a recent rehearsal, one of the dancers, Claire Kretzschmar — a City Ballet soloist — aimed her arms as if she were about to shoot a bow and arrow. ‘Seraphic Track Stars’ Dancing About Freedom at the Met 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The subordinate brothers served as “wingmen,” “bodyguards,” or “backup dancers,” to use Dr. Krakauer’s colorful descriptions. How Wild Turkeys Find Love 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

And later in the day, Morris dancers will perform and offer lessons. The Royal Wedding: Royal Wedding Receptions, No Gift Required 2011-04-05T19:55:15Z

One time, a dancer brought her boyfriend to an audition in London. ‘Stomp’ Turns 25. Here Are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About It. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

She joined the corps one year later, and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2006, followed by principal dancer in 2012. New York City Ballet Unveils Designers for Its Fall Fashion Gala 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Paris Opera Ballet, for example, reopened this week with short, gala-like programs never involving more than two dancers onstage. Review: A Dystopian ‘Swan Lake’ Bridges Ballet and Modern Dance 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The most famous, of course, are the dancers. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

It includes a suspended performance floor for his wife of 26 years, the dancer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, with whom he has a daughter and two sons. Bill Pullman Keeps His Passions Out Front 2013-01-01T23:42:34Z

In one scene, black thongs with knitted beading were stretched over the dancers’ torsos like necklaces, a creation of Mr. Fast’s. Christian Louboutin Turns Cabaret Director in Paris 2012-02-29T18:43:35Z

Over the past few months, the Lab has thrived in its new incarnation, attracting an array of commercial and entertainment clients with services ranging from choreography and dancer management to video production and hair design. Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

His team of dancers, clowns and acrobats taps into the magic of gadgetry in a circus spectacle designed for theater-goers ages 5 and up. Dance Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Common culprits are flip-flops, high heels and what few dancers would ever wear outside the studio — ballet flats.  Pain, satin and paper towels: What it takes for ballerinas to dance on their toes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Were the dancers comfortable improvising and moving in such an unspectacular manner? Giving Budding Choreographers Room to Move 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Berkeley constructed lavishly kaleidoscopic productions: scores of dancers and musicians; elaborate sets; and innovations like revolving stages, overhead camera shots and mirrors. Busby Berkeley’s Grand Spectacles at Film Forum 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

City Ballet’s dancers in these two works generally seem to be following counts, waiting their turn to do whatever happens next. Dance Review: Ballet Across America Unites at Kennedy Center 2010-06-17T22:12:00Z

One of the dancers was wearing the headset: Was his yearning to move, temporarily stymied by his fellow performer, powering those restlessly careening billiard balls? Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

During the early moments of Madonna's performance of her new song "Live for Love," the artist's red and black cape got snagged on one her backup dancers while she was on a staircase. Madonna sings on after nasty fall at Brit Awards, Kanye unveils new track 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

And they remind us, along with her Blackglama ad, seen stage left — she’s in a short fur, showing off her dancer’s legs in black stockings — what becomes a legend most. Theater Review: ‘Inventing Mary Martin,’ With 3 Singers in the Title Role 2014-04-28T02:00:01Z

They all spoke of sprawl, traffic and the problem of bringing together dispersed audiences and dancers. Los Angeles Is Attracting More Top Dancers 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

It often happens that after dancers announce their retirement, they start to perform with renewed enthusiasm, seizing the time that remains and basking in it. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z

It is always attached to the song’s rhythm in the same way, the line of bouncing dancers looking like a graphic equalizer on an old stereo flashing the beat in mobile bar-chart form. Heels on the Ground: Beyoncé and the Army of Women at Her Command 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The dancers had fierce creators such as Tudor, de Mille and Nijinska choreographing what approached a complete existence — not simply steps, but the life behind the steps. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame

The dancer Ayodele Casel began tapping, with no musical accompaniment except a recording of her own voice, her amplified cramp rolls filling the room. New York’s Pop-Up Concerts Kick Off With Jazz at a Vaccination Site 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Once he had accounted for those shifts, he said, what he was most interested in was encouraging the dancers to allow themselves more freedom and individuality in their response to Shorter’s music. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

One of my talents as a dancer and as a mover is I fall really well. ArtsBeat: 'Four Injured Performers Is Just Not Strange,' Recovering 'Spider-Man' Dancer Says 2011-01-04T20:34:54Z

Over the next five hours, we see groups of half a dozen dancers sprint on to the makeshift dancefloor and make the most of their 20-minute slots. Meet Nozinja, the Simon Cowell of Soweto's Shangaan electro scene 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z

Donen was fortunate enough to work with two of the most accomplished dancers in Hollywood in Kelly and Astaire, and they conjured up breath-taking sequences. Director Stanley Donen, famed for landmark film 'Singin' in the... 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

In parts of “Elemental,” the dancers look like they’re auditioning for Williams’s former company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, an American repertory company that might be a model but shouldn’t be duplicated. Malpaso Review: From Cuba, a Repertory Group in Search of Itself 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Best of all, the number is, sub rosa, about something even bigger than Bubbly’s dream of becoming a famous dancer. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta,” she called out emphatically and repeatedly during a recent rehearsal for George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” with dancers from New York City Ballet. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

She has sustained a partnership there with Herman Cornejo, who on Wednesday evening was in superlative form as an actor, dancer and partner. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The dancers are getting better at the wailing that takes place in their bodies. Coming Full Circle After a Pause 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

“If flowers have arrived for a corps de ballet dancer or soloist, but the ballerina hasn’t received any, we won’t present them onstage.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

When his band held back and his dancers were somewhere offstage replenishing electrolytes, Mr. Bieber was at his most comfortable. Music Review: Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden 2012-11-29T10:09:24Z

Maggie Small, a longtime star of Richmond Ballet, said dancers were drawn to the general’s shadow because they are living in a time when “articulating your thoughts with words” could be overwhelming. In Richmond, Black Dance Claims a Space Near Robert E. Lee 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ratmansky links the dancer to the seven musicians, who are onstage. Dance Review: International Stars at Damian Woetzel?s Festival in Vail 2010-08-08T23:47:00Z

The dancers look more at home here, though, as they do in “Folded,” a centrifugal duet made last year to Julia Wolfe’s “Believing.” Roundup: Abundant Tap Talent, and Doug Varone After 30 Years 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

I was more moved by Ms. Ingvartsen’s own navigation of multiple selves: her swift, lucid transitions between docent and dancer, between clinically explaining and viscerally doing, as she both commented on and reincarnated the past. Review: ‘69 positions’ Explores the Sexual Politics in Performance 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

There's no doubting the dancers' skill, but it's revealing that they look most relaxed in the captivating encore, when the "show" itself is over. Eva Yerbabuena/Farruquito – review 2013-03-18T12:50:00Z

At Oireachtas, Mary Kate will be competing both as a solo dancer and on a team. Irish dancers in the D.C. area polish their steps for national competition

Gillian Smith, the Met’s director of actors and dancers, said that the day unfolded in a four-hour whirlwind: Those trying out offered their résumés, learned the “Aida” marches, and had their photos and measurements taken. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Performed by six dancers on three benches placed at a slant on the stage, it's a meditation on revelry, peril and loss. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z

The invasion has upended the lives of many dancers, who have seen the war and its destruction close up. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Since late March, members of the Mark Morris Dance Group have been posting free options for beginner and advanced dancers, for adults and for teenagers and children, even classes specially designed for stressed-out front-line workers. Lincoln Center Opens Its Vaults for Dance Week 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The dancers are lively, engaged, but the tone is unseriously modish. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z

In one of several promotional videos inserted throughout the program, staff and dancers elaborated — sort of — on what this means. Review: At Ballet Theater, New Videos and Signs of a New Era 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

She later incorporated music — in part, she quipped, because she grew weary of hearing the coughing of audience members over the tapping of her dancers’ feet. Trisha Brown, choreographer who revolutionized dance in the 20th century, dies at 80 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

For me, any type of performance whether the artist is a huge dancer or not, I like to see a whole vision come to life and connect the song together. Empire's Serayah McNeill on Tiana, Rihanna and her Hakeem romance 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

“A dancer does so much more than a model; he or she is jumping, falling, moving against another body, rolling on the ground,” Mr. Noisette said. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Brand's wedding procession from a nearby resort was said to include 21 camels plus elephants, horses, dancers and musicians. Russell Brand and Katy Perry marry in India 2010-10-24T18:13:00Z

Peck, who plays Degas’ model Marie van Goethem, dashes on to join the line and fades into it seamlessly, encircling her arm around another dancer’s waist as they whirl together. In ‘Little Dancer,’ Susan Stroman shows the art of perseverance

The choreography, credited to Fabian Aloise, is brilliantly dynamic, its exaggerated sexual innuendo rendered grotesque by the dancers’ distorted, over-it facial expressions. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

He is not a singer or a dancer or a stand-up comic. Charlie Sheen and the vaguest shows on earth 2011-03-30T20:55:00Z

Ms. Silva, who is from Brazil, said the new shoes for dancers of color were a positive development, but more tones were needed. Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

He assembled a cast of musicians, dancers and other performers made up of M.K. soldiers and other expatriates. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The dancers slap their own bodies, hop and spring and scuttle along on their knees. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

And while a shadowy figure does open the act with a strong solo, five dancers in workaday clothing soon appear and usher in a purely dance-driven fugue and variations. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z

She is not a dancer with dazzle, not in the sense of blinding attack or the kind of glamour that leaps at you. In “Romeo and Juliet,” the Washington Ballet unleashes a star 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Eventually, of course, the metaphorical walls broke down, and the dancers got back together. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

After a while, Chipaumire and the dancers crowded into a wooden pen or jail cell and started a singing-and-stepping sequence of compressed power. Review: In ‘Nehanda,’ the Band Played On 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Each artist effectively conveys motion, but while Freeman’s dancers yield to abandon, Schmitz’s are more mannered, as well as more isolated. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

A dozen dancers from the American Ballet Theater, including Calvin Royal III, who is featured in the magazine, were in high demand for photographs. ‘Housewives’ Star and Dogs Toast Avenue Magazine 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But the twist was less bizarre than breathtaking — correct, compelling and proof that while Ms. Mearns, bold and brave, may be a ballerina of astonishing abilities, she is above all else a dancer. Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

A DJ played songs from the soundtrack on a stage set up toward the end of the carpet, with scantily clad go-go dancers, sporting gold glitter, replicating a party scene from the film. Fans, cast members remember Paul Walker at 'Furious 7' premiere 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

At first, the dancers took turns sitting and staring; outwardly they were placid, but inwardly, as their flickering eyes hint, their bodies were on high alert. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

“When I am in the studio,” he said, “I am fully focused on the dancers and the ballet. I can still do that. But I have not choreographed since the war started.” Alexei Ratmansky’s Epic Ballet Arrives in a Changed World 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

The company consists of 11 Brazilian dancers, all male, who will incorporate capoeria, samba and electronic music into their performance. Music Center dance lineup for 2015-16: Second City, hip-hop, Ratmansky 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

There’s ferocity in how the dancers whip around and bite off phrase endings, audibly hissing. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Reprises Her ‘Fase’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Either way, what transpired among the nine dancers — who made use of the night’s only scenery, a diagonal row of folding chairs — read as more strained than genuine. Review: Lydia Johnson Dance Keeps Everything in Control 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Above all, there were the marvels of Italian masque scenery: Apollo in his chariot, dancers evoking the waves upon the oceans, the muse of Music herself descending from Parnassus on a trick cloud. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

The dancer will be absent from the stage, but the dancer’s spirit and sensibility might spread across it. What They Really Want to Do Is Choreograph … 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The striking, fair-haired, six-foot-two dancer gracefully debuted in Sleeping Beauty, winning praise from critics eager to forgive the Bolshoi its opening opera flop. Russia's shiny new Bolshoi grappling with gripes 2012-02-01T15:46:09Z

When it was revived by the school in 2008, it brought to the fore the young dancer Chase Finlay, whose young, noble-virile talent — paradoxically blithe and conscientious — made an immediate impression. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z

Dancers and choreographers who have worked with the company say that rigorous training, which includes ballet and folkloric styles, produces a corps of unusually tough, athletic dancers. Cuban Dancers Complete a 5-Decade Trip to New York 2011-05-09T21:17:34Z

Instead these poor dancers slog away, mired in an idea of a performance that is, in the end, more oppressive than the societal codes they seek to convey. Dance Review: The Methods of Maleness, Kilts Included 2011-01-07T21:47:47Z

A new film looks at the life of the Ethiopian singer, actor and dancer Asnaketch Worku, who the film's director calls "Ethiopia's Edith Piaf". Asnaketch, 'Edith Piaf of Ethiopia' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Both girls star in the Disney Channel TV series "Shake It Up," where they play outfit-obsessed best friends who get a gig as background dancers on a local TV dance show. `Frenemies' take a fashion field trip in NYC 2012-01-11T16:44:10Z

The dancers in Ballet de Lorraine have a similar quality: efficient yet airless. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

The production includes a few brief musical interludes with a small chorus of dancers. Dame Edna offers 'Glorious,' cheeky zaniness at Ahmanson 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Impossibly double-jointed dancers tie their limbs into serpentine knots; there's some smartly judged choreography. Breakin' Convention – review 2013-05-06T16:12:40Z

Some of the company’s more glibly facile dancers are still being given more chances than they deserve. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z

Whether it is a tap dancer, a leader of business, a photographer or an actor, or a musician. Jason Sudeikis on his “SNL” days: “I clearly don’t have closure with my experience” 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the picture also points back to ballet history, evoking the final moments of “The Sleeping Beauty,” another wedding, another pyramid in which each dancer forms part of an architectural, symbolic whole. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

“She was the grande dame of the company, such an important dancer, and really politically active at that time.” Irina Kolpakova Trains Dancers at American Ballet Theater 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

“I know a dancer must dance more than their share of Nutcrackers, but I honestly never minded,” Mr. Boal wrote. Peter Boal to Perform in New York City Ballet's 'Nutcracker' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

On Broadway, Mr. Flatley will join his dancers for the finale most nights. 'Lord of the Dance' Creator Michael Flatley Announces His Farewell 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Dancing for Wayne was fabulous and the other Random dancers were lovely. Darren and Susan Pritchard: 'Working together has been a life-changing experience' 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

At one point, he and the dancers stop while a soprano, Joélle Harvey, in an upper balcony, sings a series of long cantilena lines very beautifully, though only some words can be distinguished. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z

Other items were to be handed off to other dancers or chucked offstage. Velcro or Snaps? The ABC’s of Stripping for a Cause 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Yugen” opens on a spare stage, dotted with four tall light-box towers in which dancers stand, silhouetted against a white glow. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere those steps aren’t associated with tall, leggy dancers — but City Ballet is different. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

He leans forward to get a better look at the dancers bounding in front of him, and squints as he flips his brown-tinted sunglasses up and down. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty

Warren took the more than 100 colors of Gibson’s design and assigned two to each of the 30 dancers in the cast. Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Going from long to short marks a drastic change in any woman’s life, but for ballet dancers it’s almost a political act. Bob or Bun? A Ballerina?s Tough Choice 2011-06-17T16:00:04Z

Veggetti, quoted in press materials, sees it as “a theater piece that is enacted by dancers.” 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

He found that those men with a high degree of prenatal testosterone exposure were again rated as more attractive and masculine dancers. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

At Ballet Theater, such a leap for a relatively unknown dancer is rare. A Corps Dancer Leaps Into His Romeo Debut 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

For dancers, this entrance is famously challenging: Aurora’s opening rush of vivacity must change pace and scale as she meets the suitors and dances with them the famous, ceremonious Rose Adagio. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Prior to this he trained in ballet, tap and jazz, and worked as a professional dancer. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

Elo dancers alternate between loving and hating classical ballet, often in the same phrase. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z

Meticulously crafted, they used dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York City Ballet and other prestigious dance troupes. Henry Gallery showcases Doris Totten Chase beyond famed Kerry Park sculpture 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

This is also a chance to tap into the services of dancers, artists and other performers who may be looking for paid opportunities, given the bleakness of their industries right now. 5 ways to help tweens and teens refresh their friendships during a pandemic 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Lizzo on Thursday denied allegations made against her this week by three former dancers who said she created a hostile work environment while performing concerts during the Grammy-winning singer’s Special Tour this year. Lizzo Denies Allegations in Former Dancers’ Lawsuit 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

A dancer who sustains a showstopping fracture onstage needn’t automatically hang up her tights. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

He envisioned BalaSole as a home for dancers of all body types, backgrounds and ages. Review: Roberto Villanueva’s BalaSole, a Kaleidoscope of Human Shapes 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, they start from the beginning with an exploratory and improvisation-based process, generating movement that is tethered to the original choreography, yet particular to each dancer’s body and impulses. A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

With a rapid-fire delivery, a barrage of one-liners and impressions, a dancer’s light-footedness and a more than passable singing voice, Mr. Carter was a headliner, if never quite a superstar, for decades. Jack Carter, Comedian Who Brought His Rapid-Fire Delivery to TV, Dies at 93 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

When the music introduced the Dies Irae theme, the dancers folded their hands in prayer. Dance Review: ‘Ballet Across America’ at the Kennedy Center 2013-06-11T20:57:15Z

Most of the movement was choral, with ripples going through it as individual dancers briefly followed their own impulses within the overall unison action. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: great dancers, mixed double bill 2013-02-11T17:29:35Z

Counting that music is only the start of the dancers’ troubles with this production. ‘Rite of Spring’: Ode to the human savage, still untamed 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

And while Russian dancers still defect, these days it is often from one Western company to another. Olympics Spotlight for Russia’s Musical Profile 2014-02-05T22:54:52Z

It’s hard, too, because we have so many principal dancers here — really, really talented dancers. | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z

To classical dancers, in particular, for whom performing is often a brutal struggle against nature. Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:05Z

The piece originally started to be another work about identity, really, my own identity, my dancers’ identity. Cherdonna Shinatra takes her subversive clowning to Frye Art Museum with ‘DITCH’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

For Nina, the impossible reflects the demands of her smothering mother, a failed dancer herself who seeks vicarious fulfillment through her daughter. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z

Even as the dancers spin and soar, they sometimes strain to appear carefree. Review: City Ballet Gets a Modern Dance Fix 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Calvin Royal III, a soft-spoken, long-limbed dancer with smiling eyes, was practicing a passage from the thrilling—and exhausting—showpiece “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” by George Balanchine. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

In this work, five dancers embody a distinct physical lexicon and follow complex spatial patterns inspired by the grid-like floor of Issue’s ornate 1926 Brooklyn home. Everyone Here Is Part of the Act 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Sheridan, nicknamed Dizzy, was a young nightclub dancer in New York City when she met Dean. Liz Sheridan, Jerry’s doting mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The memorial featured home videos and photo montages set to music, as well as performances by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles and dancers from the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio. Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds lauded at public memorial service 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The ban was repealed by the high court in 2006 on the grounds that it violated the dancers' right to equality and the freedom to practise their profession. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro ? review 2011-07-29T10:30:01Z

Sometimes you encounter a dancer who's a master isolationist, able to play every inch of her physique as if it were its own individual piano key. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z

Dean shows him at a distance, framed by his dancers, or watchfully close, the tendrils of his hair illuminated like a Rembrandt etching. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

There are artists, musicians, singers, dancers, writers who have Down syndrome. Stop mocking Adam Holland 2013-04-30T15:04:00Z

The dancers, arms outstretched, spin like planets, and as with so much of the movement in “Curriculum II,” there is a directness, a simplicity that gives it power. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The loss of three principal male dancers on the eve of the ballet season was a big blow in a field where top-flight male talent is rare. Vulgar Texts and Dancer Turmoil Force City Ballet to Look in the Mirror 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

There have been several papers looking at the self-esteem of ballet dancers in training – and what they've found is that girls in their mid-teens have significantly lower self-esteem than non-ballet-dancing girls. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

Moving spasmodically about the hotel suite, thrusting her limbs and twisting her body into knots with a dancer’s lithe grace. Newsboys Striking, Garland Freaking: Broadway's Newsies and End of the Rainbow 2012-04-03T10:45:13Z

The unveiling of the White House Christmas decorations was staged as if for a photo shoot, with the first lady welcomed by pirouetting ballet dancers before she adjourned for a holiday crafting session with schoolchildren. Seen but rarely heard: How Melania Trump is approaching the public role of first lady. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

In the most riveting section, Mr. Andrieux — who remains stiffly deadpan throughout — performs the long routine with which the Cunningham dancers begin their daily class. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z

In one moment, a dancer shoots the others with an imaginary gun and then aims it at herself. Review: ‘Badke,’ a Contemporary Spin on an Arabic Folk Dance 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

In one sketch, a parachute-panted dancer named Pierre sang about spoiled meat. Celebrating a decade of disgust with Tim and Eric 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

She teamed with the great black dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in two 1935 films with Civil War themes, "The Little Colonel" and "The Littlest Rebel." Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85 2014-02-11T16:39:54Z

But it was the corps dancers whose ardor carried the ballet. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z

Still, it was as a dancer of enormous range that de Lavallade made her greatest mark. With her height, physical facility and extraordinary beauty, she was never meant to be in the chorus. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Kent and Barbee are mulling installing ceiling fans, to cool the studios enough to turn off the inconstant air conditioning, which sends the dancers into an uncomfortable cycle of chills and sweat. Julie Kent, sweeping the Washington Ballet forward 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

All credit to Jill Johnson, a member of the original Canadian cast and a longtime Forsythe dancer, for adapting the work to the Boston dancers with impeccable attention to stylistic detail. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z

In the stripped-down production, a black-clad Brandy gets some backup from two male singer/dancers, but ultimately lets her own talent speak for itself. Watch Brandy Bring the 90s Back at the Soul Train Awards 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

I’m supposed to be a professional dancer and I’m out there rolling with my son. Retiring From Ballet Theater, a Dancer Gets What She Needs 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

They were given task after task to perform, each dancer after the other. A Rousing End Lifts a Program of Jérôme Bel Dances in Paris 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

At the start of this century, it often appeared that in the eyes of presenters, only one tap dancer existed: Savion Glover. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The precise sequences, created in collaboration with the dancers, come with aquatic names: Splash, Water Waltz, Paddle Waltz, Dive, Carwash. In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Live music, Irish dancers and food and drink specials. 14 ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in and around Seattle 2012-03-17T23:50:23Z

It will be the last opportunity to see the choreographer's works performed by dancers he personally trained. Merce Cunningham Dance Company to visit Seattle on final Legacy Tour 2010-12-15T21:01:05Z

But the most mesmerizing couple is Mr. Angle, the company’s most refined partner and male dancer, and Ms. Hyltin, a gutsy wisp of ballerina, who after a nasty slip, regained her momentum with daring. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z

The foyers of the David H. Koch Theater are lined by irritating posters of company dancers looking as if they were modeling casualwear or, in some cases, underwear. Critic?s Notebook: In City Ballet?s Fall Season, a Need for Surprises 2011-10-12T17:07:24Z

For example, when we see dancers while they’re dancing, it’s like they fly up in the air. Monica Bellucci: ‘I’m not a Bond girl, I’m a Bond woman’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Afterlight was inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky and also by the drawings Nijinsky made relating to his own choreography; abstract circular patterns that traced the flow of the dancer's movement. This week's new dance 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Crowds showed up in numbers large enough that the surprised dancers really did feel like rock stars. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ballet Breakaway While New York City Ballet remains retro in some regards — see this year’s roster of exclusively white male choreographers — its dancers are taking on adventurous side projects. The Best Dance of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ringer is particularly underused since she knows how to speak onstage, looks appropriately gorgeous, and is a dancer capable of emotional depths that she gets no chance to explore here. Dance Review: Melissa Barak?s Bugsy Siegel Dance at City Ballet 2010-06-06T22:21:00Z

The future of the form is to be determined not by critics but by choreographers, artistic directors and, not least, by dancers, working together. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z

We were stomping and clapping, locked-elbow spinning, stepping along a figure-eight-shaped path and ducking under the outstretched arms of other dancers. In Edinburgh, dancing is a great way to reel in new friends 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And then because of this acting nomination, people are asking me: “You were nominated before as a choreographer? You were a dancer?” Rosie Perez Hates Flying, but She Soared in ‘The Flight Attendant’ 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

His seven backup musicians were all dressed in white, while dancers appeared as fish-headed robots, skulls, angels in silver bikinis, faceless checkerboard-skinned aliens and, at one point, a blond dragon for Mr. Barnes to ride. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z

Since most ballet companies — until relatively recently — included few Black dancers in their ranks, little thought was given to this; it was simply part of the creation of a uniform aesthetic effect. Black Ballerina, Playing a Swan, Says She Was Told to Color Her Skin 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

We saw Jack Osbourne compete as the underdog, while he battled not only the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, but two semi-professional dancers: High School Musical‘s Corbin Bleu and Glee‘s Amber Riley. Dancing with the Stars Watch: And The Winner Is… 2013-11-27T04:57:30Z

Also at rehearsal was a battalion of gyrating dancers, many clad in skimpy bikinis. Music: ?T.A.M.I. Show? Release Reveals Classic Performances 2010-03-20T04:36:00Z

She was often the least energized person onstage — there were, at times, 10 backup dancers, which felt like overcompensation. At Jingle Ball, Finding Out Who’s Learned to Play Nice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s never apparent beforehand, in a verbal description of the choreography, the collaborators, and the dancers; and it’s not necessarily discernible in the first minutes of a piece. Netta Yerushalmy’s Perfect Dance 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

Fast-forward to Act II, through the construction of a paper-towel gown for one enthroned dancer, through that “labor spectacle” with its rearrangement of seats and exposure of theatrical trappings. ‘Court/Garden,’ an Interactive Work From Yanira Castro 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The final scene, “In The Night,” is the most mysterious of all, with the corps dancers traveling through darkness in various directions on their knees. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z

But where Copeland differs from other dancers with celebrity status — Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Fonteyn and the like — is that they were known as artists of the highest order first. Can Misty Copeland be both a celebrity AND a great artist? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The act that takes place in the Polovtsian encampment becomes a wondrous dreamscape in a poppy field, with alluring dancers, watched by the captive Igor, who struggles to comprehend what has happened. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:00:40Z

A pioneering modern dancer and choreographer in the 1930s, she helped spread the new dance gospel around the world and made her mark in theater as well. Dance Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:43:41Z

Moments later, he commanded his toy soldiers to fight an army of mice led by the Mouse King, the equally elegant New York City Ballet dancer Silas Farley. The Soulful 11-Year-Old Princes of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The sense is that Ms. Patek is willing to put her body — the real thing, not the dressed-up dancer’s version — on the line, living out the awkwardness she creates for everyone in the room. Dance Review: Rebecca Patek’s ‘Real Eyes’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-06-03T21:19:26Z

In one sense, dancers with years of training are really no different from those without it — everyone has a complex, individual relationship to the dance floor. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Then there's a film he's about to start shooting in the UK, with Nick Frost, about competing salsa dancers. Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood 2012-05-18T22:01:08Z

Throughout “Dear Lord,” the dancers took staggering steps from one corner of the stage to the other, rounding their backs and tilting their heads to the light. At Ailey, a Dance Set to Coltrane Finds a Somber Radiance 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Luckily, most of it takes place there, as we watch a group of five dancers create a new work; the camera pulls in close on the choreography, letting us breathe with them. SIFF week 1: 10 movies to see 2013-05-16T17:52:44Z

Seeing the program the company’s dancers and musicians are bringing here is a fine way to celebrate both. A Shakespeare tale with honesty and heart 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Alas, Mr. Missé, the superb tango dancer, is not in the best physical condition. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

You saw the effort and the sweat of the dancers. The intimacy of dance, brought even closer​ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the opening segment the dancers, in suits they will eventually rip from their bodies, sit on chairs arranged in a sweeping semicircle. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey?s Ohad Naharin Premiere at City Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:45:45Z

Yet "I Know Places," about feeling circled by tabloid-like "vultures," was more sinister, with the dancers bursting through half a dozen moving doorways. Taylor Swift flexes a fierce new attitude at Rock in Rio USA 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Yet there are a few garments not made for the thin physiques of conventional dancers and models. Lady Gaga’s pointe shoes, punk-ballet tutus in ‘Dance & Fashion’ exhibit

Copeland also opened up about her recent promotion at the American Ballet Theater, which made her the first black female dancer to be made a principal at the elite 75-year old company. Misty Copeland to Star in 'On the Town' on Broadway 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

A: Maks: Aside from Val and I, we have four more male dancers and we have six female dancers. On summer tour, dancing brothers Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy get personal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

"Antony says the East Village is an indigenous population," says his close friend, dancer and DJ Johanna Constantine. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z

In recent seasons, Ballet Theater retreated from its custom of bringing in starry guest dancers, instead highlighting its homegrown talent. A Ratmansky Premiere Highlights American Ballet Theater’s Season 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stanley clearly misses Tel Aviv and the bonds that he formed with dancers there. A Ballet Hamlet Becomes a God (Apollo, That Is) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

He began choreographing, using mouthed sound effects to direct the dancers because he knew almost no ballet terms. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

He was one of the most famous dancers of the early 20th century; when he died in 1949, 32,000 mourners paid their respects. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Dressed in black and sporting red lipstick, with her dark hair pulled back, she resembled a retired flamenco dancer. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

Comes accompanied by its own dance style – check out the YouTube clips of dancers pulling off unfathomable moves in unglamorous locations to juke and footwork's furious percussive pummel. The A-Z of pop in 2012 2012-06-29T14:15:00Z

Artists and scholars still debate what, exactly, it is that a dancer or choreographer is trying to claim as their own. There’s a long history of dances being pilfered for profit — and TikTok is the latest battleground 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a moment when the two dancers are side by side, holding hands above their heads, and the ballerina’s foot rests on her partner’s shoulder. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

She told me that she was a former dancer who’d got into Pilates because of her own back pain. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Tatyana, a former dancer turned instructor, met Roman 33 years ago, in Riga, Latvia, after both escaping Kiev during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Here, Ms. Saldana plays a dancer who for many years supported her husband while he worked on a novel. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z

That’s a very Rauschenbergian organization, and you see it, too, in Cunningham’s choreography: Dancers to the sides of the stage are no less important than dancers at the center. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

A puppet, a human dancer and a narrator will all portray Persephone, daughter of goddess Demeter, as she forges a new identity after the gods conspire to send her to the Underworld. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

She survives him, as does their daughter, Michéle Murray, who became a dancer with the Alvin Ailey company. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Instead, the dancers mirrored the clear but understated tone of Gaye’s voice and message with a sweeping, circular finale that whirled chaos into order and offered the sweetest solace possible: people coming together. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Contortionists, cabaret singers and burlesque dancers will appear at the 10-day festival, set in venues across this verdant coastal city. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

They prep themselves together in the locker room of the Wizards Dancers before the rest of the Wizdom dancers arrive at the arena. With age comes ‘Wizdom.’ The Wizards’ 50-and-older dance squad is thrilling crowds. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The American pavilion will host several new works by Gibson and performances filled with other Indigenous musicians, poets and dancers. Jeffrey Gibson Will Be First Indigenous U.S. Artist at Venice Biennale 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Hosted by the dancer Vandana Hart, the program investigates traditional and urban dance traditions on a global level. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

There was a Chinese story performed by adept Chinese dancers, but there was not an aesthetically coherent and compelling ballet. Review: National Ballet of China Brings ‘Peony Pavilion’ to Lincoln Center 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The dancer who performed for hours on the tube to reclaim the space where she was assaulted. What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

But the point was clear: By placing so many different dancers and productions together on one stage, Hollander showed what has been lost having this time taken away. Review: Choreographic Skeletons From a Lost Pandemic Time 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

There was a nonintermission: While the curtain remained up, dancers stopped dancing. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z

So now the company is gearing up quickly, preparing to marshal the forces of roughly 1,000 singers, orchestra players, conductors, dancers and actors scheduled to perform this season. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The same was true for the Royal Ballet on the day before Christmas; the dancers seemed to genuinely love performing the ballet, and the audience responded with corresponding warmth and enthusiasm. London Nutcrackers Defy Logic, and Still Delight 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The former New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer returned home to Los Angeles almost 10 years ago and later launched her own troupe. Barak Ballet at the Wallis: Like sculpture come to life onstage 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

On March 3, Fox will start showing the series, which dramatizes the preparations for a group performance by singers, dancers and other Latin artists. ArtsBeat: Fox to Broadcast Latin Talent Series 2012-02-16T19:42:50Z

Because of the pandemic, the dancers have been rehearsing mainly with members of the same company. Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

"Get the curry smells wafting through the auditorium while the audience are mesmerised by the singing of wafer-thin red and gold dancers." British-Asian theatre needs a facelift 2010-04-23T15:24:00Z

“Spider-Man,” with a budget of $70 million, attached wires to its actors and dancers, making the miracle of flight look rather mechanical. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z

But then, he might have made an exception, just this once, for this particular dancer. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

I’ve watched the company through the years, and made close friends among former and current dancers. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The company is pushing for a wage freeze for the dancers, whose contract expires in July. NYC ballet company faces off with dancers' union 2011-01-11T22:38:11Z

But the dancers, led by a deadpan Rashaun Mitchell in Cunningham’s old role, made the choreography’s oddities astonishingly fresh. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

As one scene bleeds into the next, the dancers juxtapose their movements, which tend toward sharp and angular — aggressive partnering seems a constant if-all-else-fails proposition — with moments of stillness. Dance Review: Por Instantes at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-15T22:19:33Z

In the studio with Mr. Ratmansky, the dancers appeared eager to try a different approach to their characters and to master his tricky, fast-moving phrases. Opening Wide: The Bolshoi’s New, More Poetic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Colored” followed “A.D.,” a new work for five dancers that Mr. Marshall calls “the beginning of a conversation surrounding Christianity and its influence on the body.” Review: Dancing the ‘Twisted Beauty’ of the Black Experience 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

She started out as a professional ballet dancer, before an injury led her toward film and television. In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

I like what Mr. Ailey said — he didn't like cookie-cutter dancers. MLK's speeches translated into dance as Alvin Ailey troupe comes to the Dorothy Chandler 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

But the two men began by clapping in the rapid metric units of flamenco dancers — a device to which they returned toward the duet’s end. Silas Riener and Michael Ingle Dance Tere O’Connor’s Vision 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Then she came upon the yearbook from the school’s first season, in 1940, when Koussevitzky brought the dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins here to help the conducting students work on their movements on the podium. Memories of Tanglewood on Its 75th Birthday 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“This feels like my opportunity to make the changes that I needed, to understand the dancers at a new level than what I left with,” she said. After a year of upheaval, New York City Ballet names new leadership team 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Much of the work’s opening and closing scenes are centered on the company’s younger male dancer, the slender, handsome and wide-eyed Harenthiran Pulingam, who certainly lends himself to all its picturesque aspects. Dance Review: Hindu Mythology Comes to Life on the Streets of New York 2011-08-21T22:23:13Z

She spent five years as an artist in residence at Ohio State University but returned to New York to direct the Limón company, at its dancers’ request, after Mr. Limón’s death in 1972. Ruth Currier, Principal Dancer With Jos? Lim?n, Dies at 85 2011-10-12T03:27:11Z

The painted wooden dancer exudes an animistic spirit, as if temporal nature is infused with conscious life. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

I started to write my own catalog of questions to the dancers and they answered it, like with Pina, with their bodies. The Carpetbagger: James Cameron, Wim Wenders Thanks You 2012-02-10T19:42:47Z

With the dancer serving as bartender, they sipped cocktails, chatted and laughed while addressing the online viewers. Perspective | The Washington Ballet thought a virtual fundraiser was safe. But it still may have put artists at risk. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Cabada’s work includes portraits, still lifes and figure studies, notably of dancers. - The Washington Post 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Need a dancer who can pick up hip-hop and contemporary choreography quickly, and maybe also perform in pointe shoes? A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

His mother is the No. 1 fan of the legendary ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

She became an independent dancer, continuing ballet classes at her parents’ apartment in New Jersey under the guidance of her mother, a former ballet dancer. A Special ‘Nutcracker’ Bond 2013-12-10T22:13:32Z

These are just some of the partnerships, which also include a video activist, a folk musician, a puppeteer and a dancer. This week's new theatre 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

Suddenly, as if they remembered they were in a tango show, dancers stalk away from one another with little warning. Cia. Unión Tanguera Brings Its Tango to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

And the people frolicking on its lawns aren’t ballet dancers, but rather Ms. Swift’s famous friends from the music and fashion worlds. Taylor Swift Is Summering in Rhode Island. Locals Just Shake It Off. 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the years since that epiphany, Diaz, 27, has shaped a surprising freelance career, a new kind of model for “Swiss Army knife” dancers. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Nine of her dancers performed a jazz piece set to Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love,” which featured fan kicks and pirouettes — hallmarks of competitive jazz — while also, as Fuller described it, “getting a little funky.” Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Gathering of the Clans, Scottish and Celtic pipe bands, dancers, vendors, entertainment, Highland Games, food vendors, beer garden, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-29T21:58:05Z

Each dancer said their name three times accompanied by a dance move. A choreographer works to bring dance to the disabled 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Doyle and Ms. Smith were all about delving into the dancers’ inherent theatricality. Odysseys Into Martha Graham World, One Dramatic, the Other Abstract 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

His wife and assistant, the dancer and choreographer Mina Nishimura, added with a laugh, “It’s very Japanese.” A Dance of Vaporizing Bodies, With a Nod to Butoh 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

In “The Unkindness of Ravens” the Korean women will perform with two of the company’s dancers, Mr. Perry and Ryan Redmond. Trey McIntyre Project Collaborates with Korean Dancers 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

I had to read that the section during which the dancers lie still is a kind of pun on the French term for “still life”: “nature morte” or “nature dying.” Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

“With our dancer dancing behind the scrim and then the rapid-fire harrowing poses from other generations overlaid on top of her,” Ms. Eilber said, “it transformed and transcended into being a real work of art.” In the Dance Lab With Martha Graham 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

During the Sugar Army rehearsal, she listened as the dancers, who had just performed their own short movement phrases for one another, reflected on the exercise. From Northern Ireland, Dance as a ‘Physical Prayer’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

The connecting thread, in fact, is visible, in the form of a red scarf that passes from dancer to dancer — tossed, caught, tied around a waist, held between teeth. Review: The Paul Taylor Company Returns With a New Voice 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

But Janie Taylor, normally a distinctive dancer, was totally anonymous in the lead role, almost indistinguishable from the work’s indistinguishable corps couples. Dance Review: City Ballet in Varied Works at Koch Theater 2012-10-07T20:27:27Z

It pounds and pummels the dancers, herding them into terrified groups and driving them into confrontational duets. Sasha Waltz & Guests: Continu – review 2012-10-01T17:13:25Z

There are other scenes in which the dancers experience breakdowns of sorts, and their squeals and hysterical shrieks fall into the category of modern-dance clichés. Dance Review: Liz Santoro and Anne Zuerner at Danspace Project 2012-04-13T20:35:58Z

Pina was always open and aware of her own reactions, of changes in the dancers, and sometimes she did change pieces from the past. Guarding a Bright Flame?s Afterglow 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

It was astonishingly polished, like well-rehearsed dancers who instinctively fall into step with one another. The Choreography of Public Mourning 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

The effects made by these two dancers are interestingly unalike. Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

She gave her dancers previously shunned theatrical trappings, like costumes — for “Jelly Rolls,” Kermit Love’s witty backless tuxedos — and smart haircuts. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

It means so much to the narrator and her best friend when they discover black dancers in those old movies, dancers who look like them. Zadie Smith on Dance: ‘It Brings Such Intense Joy’ 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

We were losing performers, we were losing dancers, we were losing hair people, we were losing wardrobe people, cameramen, lighting people. Dionne Warwick Is Ready for an Encore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

The music is a cross between house and gospel, and the work’s gestures and congregations of dancers both blur the line between church and club behavior and exploit the tension between them. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z

As she often recalled, she felt she would not fit in with the company’s long-legged, fleet-footed female dancers, who were encouraged to “just dance,” as Balanchine reportedly wished. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

"She adored dancing with the young dancers," he said, "seeing new shows and the incredible response from the Easter Bonnet audience and Broadway community." Last Broadway Ziegfeld Follies Girl dies at 106 2010-05-12T05:23:00Z

Tarantino liked Sam’s Hofbrau — home to topless dancers — so much he used it in two films. Tarantino’s Los Angeles in Six Key Locations 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

But when the dancers pile on top of one another in the final moments, Mr. Abraham sets it to Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free.” Dance Review: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Kyle Abraham at Lincoln Center 2013-08-02T21:47:35Z

So is their a causal link between factors such as symmetry or hip-movement and being an attractive dancer? Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

Although he was not a dancer or physical entertainer like James Brown or Jackie Wilson, Mr. King developed a strong rapport with audiences by conversing with them. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Among rock guitar heroes, Prince is not only one of the masters; he is also by far the best dancer. Music Review: True Guitar Hero, With More Love and Less Leer 2010-12-16T22:00:26Z

And if “Trapped” ended without giving the dancers or the audience complete release, Desardouin had the right idea in bringing on the D.J. collective Soul Summit Music for a post-show dance party. Review: Passion Fruit Dance Company Brings the Club to the Stage 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

Onstage, whether playing an elegant ballroom or an outdoors festival in the countryside, Septen is a dynamo, with a heady combination of drums and horns driving dancers onto their feet. ?When the Drum Is Beating,? About Orchestre Septentrional 2012-04-10T22:50:42Z

There were moments — the second act pas de deux, Ms. Murphy’s whirling third act solo, Mr. Hallberg’s dazzling jumps — in which the dancers made you forget the tedium of the material. Dance Review: Note to Self: A Good Pair of Shoes Always Ends Up Paying for Itself 2011-06-22T22:10:02Z

It’s clear that the success of “Rondo” relies on its dancers to make it fresh and unaffected, and that its simplicity and understated emotion elevate it above many recent ballets. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

And they don’t learn how many bouquets they’ll present or to which dancers until they get backstage. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Insecurity was a subject close to the dancers’ hearts. The Film ‘Enemy Within’ Melds a Variety of Dance Styles 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

He later became the ballet's youngest ever principal dancer at the age of 19. Ukrainian ballet star Polunin aims to help others manage their demons 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

“It’s always been about me and my work and my artists and my dancers and my this and my that, and I never really thought I would be able to share the space,” he said. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

The dancers share the stage with the ensembles Sō Percussion and Möbius Percussion and four other musicians. Review: In ‘There Might Be Others,’ Choreography in Real Time 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sparingly, he injects such images as a dancer leaping into the air and ending horizontal in the arms of others. Same Planet Different World elevates collisions to an art form 2011-03-11T16:28:57Z

Mexico’s “The Voice” posted a remembrance of Mr. Fuentes on its website, noting his versatility as a singer, dancer and composer. Mexican ‘Voice’ Star Dies After Being Shot on His Birthday 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Until recently, many members of the academic and concert dance worlds viewed the big-smile theatricality of competition dancers with a mixture of confusion and derision. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Then, it’s the always delightful, if innuendo-filled threesomes … er, “trio dances,” where three dancers hit the ballroom floor together and pretend it’s not at all awkward. 'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Threesomes Mean Triple the Fun 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

And she makes her dancers look like independent spirits with their own motivations. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z

Throughout fierce bursts of energy and raw emotional displays, the top dancers’ muscles are so finely controlled, it looks like video trickery is involved. Perspective | In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Throughout the night, Lipa was flanked by up to 10 dancers and two roller skaters. Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Blanc’s “Mothership,” tidily set to a score of that name by Mason Bates, will be worth seeing again for the breaks it gives to its dancers, who are all at corps or apprentice level. New York City Ballet Opens a Spring Gala, and Some Umbrellas 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

At times, it’s as if the corridor had shifted into cinematic slow motion, broken by faster dancers — staff members gliding past on a mission, or clutches of high school students exploding in laughter. Come for the Guest Rooms. Stay for the Galleries. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Here, the floor is covered with dirt; its 32 dancers, more ferociously primal, tear the stage apart as a sacrificial victim is chosen and killed. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It thrives on group dynamics, as its dancers draw from a menu of mechanical rolls, soft-shoe shuffles, gravity-defying frog-leaps and every kind of elastic undulation imaginable. Grupo Corpo: From troubadour tunes to techno trance | Dance review 2014-01-24T18:56:05Z

“I’m a dancer. I’m used to dancing and acting through movement.” This Angel in America Takes Wing With Help From 5 Shadows 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a wonderful group, with dancers capable of embodying joy and pathos, all the while equipped with unassuming virtuosity. Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

“I trained as a classical dancer, I live on 72nd Street, I go to the ballet all the time and am a huge fan of City Ballet.” Bringing Jerome Robbins’s Broadway Home to City Ballet 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

“The Seeker,” a female dancer depicting the Prince Ivan-like hero of the folk tale, weaves in and around the puppets. Here’s how Ted van Griethuysen winds down: Playing all the parts in ‘Hamlet’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

To her, what is vital is that the dancers do. Dance Machine of the 21st Century Imparts Vintage Broadway Steps to a New Generation 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

We also hear from the people who use it - a local artist and a former mayor turned tea dancer. VIDEO: The Public's closure 'horrifies' architect 2013-09-24T23:02:36Z

As friends caught up and musicians mingled with dancers, Rebecca Sigel, the company’s manager for its Lumberyard residency, relayed pandemic safety measures, like daily testing, and asked for help cleaning up after dinner. Opera’s ‘Island of Misfit Toys’ Takes Its Biggest Stage Yet 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Lang's outstanding nine dancers march slowly across the stage in profile, stop and lean backward, begin forward again, stopping in midstep with a lifted, flexed foot. Jessica Lang's vision is far-reaching in company's program at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Wheeldon is the choreographic craftsman par excellence, and makes his dancers look fabulous. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

The dancers, predictably dressed in shades of tangerine, looked their most relaxed in this work, which incorporates Mr. Welch’s usual tools, formal structure and nonsensical gestures, like wiggling heads. Review: Ballet NY Presents a Premiere, Medhi Barati’s ‘What Ever’ 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The dancers don’t dance to this, anyway, though sometimes they pointedly dance against it: staccato to the music’s legato, low-key to its high-energy power, or vice versa. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z

His famous renderings of dancers in several mediums will also be included, as will more classic drawings from both male and female models. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z

From the dancers to the audience, “Grand Duo” is a communal shout. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z

The film shows three perspectives, side by side: “Private” features the dancer Judith Dunn warming up in her loft, bending and rising in pliés as her arms float silkily through the air. Review: MoMA Puts Judson Dance on Display and, Better Yet, in Motion 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

As usual, Mr. Jones’s current crew of dancers is diverse, attractive, strong and supple. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday’s evidence, today’s dancers are least skilled in exposed, slow movements. At Dance Theater of Harlem, Where’s the ‘Theater’? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It consists of a mirror, a hanging closet shelf crammed with leotards, tights and clothes, and her theater case — one of the old-fashioned black rectangular cases that dancers live out of and tour with. Rehearse, Ice Feet, Repeat: The Life of a New York City Ballet Corps Dancer 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Because she has to interact with the dancers, speaking to them though they do not speak back, “I’m using a muscle I’ve never used before,” Irving added. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness.

Tapping against its hull to establish a beat, Mr. Alorwoyie called drummers and dancers into action, activating changes in the patterns and movements with nods or shifts in expression. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Andrea Miller, soon to be the first choreographer in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents her turbulent “W H A L E,” and the flamenco dancer María Pagés celebrates femininity in “Yo, Carmen.” 10 Spring and Summer Dance Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Well, enter: Peep Show’s Robert Webb, who, in 2009, slipped into a one piece and put every professional dancer to shame with his rendition of What a Feeling. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Rhythm Nation joins annals of celebrity dance moments 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

After he was fired for allegedly sharing explicit photos of a female colleague, an arbitrator for the dancers’ union ordered City Ballet to reinstate him. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

One Friday night last fall, 50 well-dressed guests piled into an apartment in Hell’s Kitchen for a party celebrating Sheela-Marie Padgett, a 57-year-old former dancer with the New York City Ballet. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Add a couple more trucks for equipment, plus six tour buses for 20 dancers and 20-something crew members, and Ballet Theater could take its show on the road, with fingers crossed for no rain. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Physicality pervades her theater work; she says it is “as close as you can get to dance without having dancers.” ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

At the highest levels, amateur and pro, dancers must integrate several compulsory moves into their routines, making use of two poles, one static and one spinning. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Ballet Black was set up to provide dancers of black and Asian descent with a place to perform ballet - "where they weren't necessarily the only black face in the room", according to founder Cassa Pancho. VIDEO: In rehearsal with Ballet Black 2011-02-09T06:41:58Z

Meanwhile, Marty turns a couple of fellows sneaking into the recording studio into his backup singers and dancers, and begins recording himself. Review: In ‘The Total Bent,’ a Father-Son Rift and a Sensational Score 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Of all the artists whose livelihoods have been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, dancers have been among those hit hardest. A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

At first I was coddled by the other dancers and treated as the new girl. My strip club bullying nightmare 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

But scattershot as this work is, there's no denying the wizardry of its final image as the dancers slowly scale the set – their bodies calmed to lucid stillness by the aria from the Goldberg Variations. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness – review 2013-04-08T11:26:00Z

I’m finding, at least with the master classes we’ve been doing around the country, that when the dancers are teaching the more kind of rebellious work from the ’60s, students are responding to it. Advice for Running the Paul Taylor Company? ‘Keep Them Laughing’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

“The one way that you could really get in trouble in this show is if you approach it as a dancer doing dance steps,” Cilento said. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

One hopes those dancers spend their down time in the wings, watching and learning from the master. Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras in ‘Voces’: Power of simple pleasures 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Tap dancers are a quick-to-splinter and hardly spendthrift tribe; New York real estate isn’t free; and musicians rightly want to be paid. Critic's Notebook: Tap Dance Jams at Smalls, Led by Michela Marino Lerman 2012-08-31T16:32:28Z

The Bolshoi is larger than any dancer or director; it has survived revolutions and financial hard times. The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Martha Eddy, the dance educator and one of the event’s coordinators, helped to lead a dance in which participants, dancers and audience members alike, made waves with their bodies. Using the Wisdom of Dance to Find Our Way Back to Our Bodies 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Together with “dance ambassadors” planted throughout the space — dancers who knew what they were doing and didn’t hold back — she provided a visual and energetic anchor, someone to follow if we were lost. This Ain’t No Disco: Alone in a Crowd at the Armory 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

In the past, what stuck was the dancers’ refined, fresh presence; here, they forced it. Fall for Dance at City Center: The Old Man Shows How It Is Done 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

This is the first of the three sections in “Analogy Trilogy,” which Jones created with his associate artistic director, Janet Wong, in collaboration with the dancers. Review | Bill T. Jones reveals the power of the human spirit in dance, music and text 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

“She didn't ask us to be dancers,” he said. At 85, Carmen de Lavallade is the rare L.A. legend much of L.A. doesn't know 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

He was, conveniently, escaping the crowds at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin to audition dancers in the Midwest. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Her father, Edwin, was a tap dancer, and her mother, the former Florez Williams, was an actress. Joni Sledge, singer with disco-era group Sister Sledge, dies at 60 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Not only is DiMarco a natural and fluid dancer, but he’s also quickly established himself as the one to beat in the competition, earning top scores from the judges. Nyle DiMarco Is a Frontrunner on DWTS—Even Though He Can't Hear the Music 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

An audition for Nrityagram, which was then recruiting new dancers, got in the way. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

This isn’t the dancers’ intention; some of them twinkle and smile affably. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The dancers are surprised by how difficult it is to achieve the desired effect; Ms. Chien-Pott considers this her hardest role. Bringing Back the Spirit of Early Martha Graham, Stark and Pure 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Here, arms wove through the air as if propelled by magnets, and the dancers were dressed as ninjas. Dance Review: Where Hip-Hop Meets the Martial Arts 2011-08-05T22:35:15Z

“But they have nothing to do with what we were. Except they have the passion that we had. The dancers in Batsheva have always had this passion.” Rena Gluck, Who Helped Bring Modern Dance to Israel, Dies at 89 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

She heightens drama, at one point coloring the dancers so they look like a 3-D movie seen without the special glasses. Dance Review: Maud Le Pladec’s Percussive ‘Democracy’ 2014-05-09T21:36:43Z

Some eagle-eyed commenters noted that Perry had hired away some of Swift’s dancers for that tour. Is Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' About Katy Perry? A Textual Analysis 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Few who pass the monument probably realize that he was among the greatest dancers of his generation. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Law of Mosaics” begins jarringly, with three dancers, momentarily still and silhouetted, activated into busy motion by the emphatic first note of the score. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

So when several actresses signed up to portray professional dancers in new movies, they had to play a very intense game of catch-up. Natalie Portman: Becoming a ballerina for 'Black Swan' not easy 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z

The dancers are so good, they deserve works of more refinement. Review | Washington Ballet opens its new season with three eye-catching, yet incomplete premieres 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

At times one dancer fell backward, swiftly caught by the rest. At Alvin Ailey, Finding Shelter in One Another 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

But as he cavorted through a performance of Out of Town Girl, bustling up stairs and sidling up to back-up dancers, the gig took a turn for the gastric. Justin Bieber vomits on stage on first night of world tour 2012-10-01T10:05:06Z

In an interesting role reversal, all of Swift’s backup dancers were men while women sang backup and played instruments. This Year's VMAs Were All About Empowered Women 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

So what I really like is a dancer who has gravity in both senses of the word: physical gravity and spiritual gravity. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Despite the many other “Nutcracker” dancers worth discussing, it’s both crucial and fun to note a few of the differences among this ballet’s innumerable productions. Critic’s Notebook: New Men of ‘Nutcracker’: Papajohn, Tilton and Melendez 2012-12-11T23:17:27Z

Its hard-working, unaffected dancers have been presenting repertory gems and worthwhile curios overlooked by major troupes, alongside new works by choreographers sometimes also unjustly neglected by the big guns. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Well, he is a much better dancer than I am! ArtsBeat: Some Funny Dancing to Help Ai Weiwei 2012-11-23T15:47:02Z

In stylishly shabby costumes by Willa Kim, 14 dancers draw out subtle layers of the music, its weight as much as its buoyancy. Dance Review: Juilliard Dances Repertory in Modern Classics 2014-03-24T22:53:13Z

Originally a digital work, it touched on themes of trauma, bullying and self-acceptance and ended with a steamy kiss as the dancers rolled across the floor. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

So you started your career as a dancer and a choreographer. Taraji P. Henson in "What Men Want": Don't call it a remake of a Mel Gibson movie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Except in one respect, the Sarasota dancers are terrific. Review: Sarasota Ballet Shows Its Mastery of Frederick Ashton’s Marvels 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

In the duet — competitive, playful, arduous — the two dancers never touch. Twyla Tharp: ‘Each One of the Dances Is My Hope for a Perfect World’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

As with the three-company performances of Balanchine’s “Jewels” last year, dancers from different traditions will bring out different facets of Balanchine style — all illuminating but not all equal. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

At one point, the 41-year-old artist traded dance moves with a pair of giant robot arms; at another, an image of a silvery alien dancer in heels hovered over a disco ball. Beyoncé Returns to the Stage With a ‘Renaissance’ Spectacle 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Fosse often shaped his choreography on her body, which means that she shaped it, too, and she taught it to dancers in turn, even after she and Fosse separated. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The real gang members stand on the edges while a dozen or so imitation gang members – professional dancers – dance and wave knives. Michael Jackson: 'Magic is easy if you put your heart into it' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-20T12:40:54Z

“I’ve never seen my likeness on his stage, and maybe it’s part of the reason, as a young dancer, I found the company so unattainable, so unreachable,” Ms. Jenkins said. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Though he very much knows what he wants, Peck is not imperious, and it's charming to hear him say things to the dancers like "you make the mistakes look really good." 'Ballet 422' shows the creative process on a tight deadline 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As any self-respecting musical-theater obsessive knows, those are the words Zach shouts again and again in “I Hope I Get It,” the opening number that puts the auditioning dancers through their initial paces. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Their documentary follows Joy Womack, an American ballet dancer who moved alone to Moscow at 15 with aspirations of joining the Bolshoi Ballet. ‘Joy Womack: The White Swan’ Review: When Success Is a Stretch 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Nik, as he was known, was ahead of his time when he began, in the 1950s, to use lights, props and costumes to transform his dancers into otherworldly shapes. The Week Ahead: Dec. 26 ? Jan. 1 2010-12-24T14:55:53Z

She credits her confidence onstage to her time as a young competitive dancer. From a ‘Super Bunhead’ to a Lead Dancer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Logue, 32, has spent his life performing: as a dancer, actor, cheerleader, drum major and, most recently, as his drag queen persona, Denimm. Idaho drag performers mobilize as right-wing forces target their shows 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

When the dancers freeze for a moment, holding their arms in disdain, they stare at each other before executing a shoulder brush and moving on. Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The dancers were all of a high caliber, and the works, all premieres by four guest choreographers, didn’t necessarily display ascending skill. Dance Review: Juilliard Students in ?New Dances? at Sharp Theater - Review 2011-12-16T22:41:32Z

One reluctant dancer, captured by Rachel Goslins, a filmmaker and the executive director of the president’s committee, rolled his eyes and mouthed “Oh my God” as she circled him around the floor. Chuck Close Uses Art to Inspire Students to Academic Success 2012-12-18T22:55:31Z

Set to Bach, with 16 dancers in black velvet, the work opens on a stark note: Quick falls, strident arms and runs dotted with tiny hops send lines of dancers spinning in agitated coils. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Even his dancers — so outstandingly fresh as a rule — reflected this by sometimes looking a bit la-di-da, too determinedly gracious for comfort. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The dancers keep their eyes lowered almost constantly. Dance Review: Moving Preciously to the Music, Sometimes Stealing Away With It 2010-09-23T21:53:00Z

I caught them once, from a brief encounter with a beautiful ballet dancer in a world-renowned company. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Put the audience and dancers together in the rooms of a house, rather than in the cavern of a theater, and this close study takes on a particular tension. The intimacy of dance, brought even closer​ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ballet dancer: In the middle of a performance of “Swan Lake,” start twerking. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Quitting your job? Might as well do it spectacularly. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Over the last decade, McKenzie has focused on nurturing homegrown dancers rather than importing the major international stars who gave Ballet Theater its glamorous profile for so long. Susan Jaffe to Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

By contrast, Lady Gaga’s big-bucks production, featuring a dozen dancers, outrageous costumes, colorful wigs and huge runways, is meant to dazzle. Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, from pals to divas | Concert preview 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Who these dancers are is none of my business; how they are is. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Why We Go Out 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The opening sees a line of frenetic tap dancers arising from below the ground as if they were Dante's answer to the Rockettes. 42nd Street 2010-07-02T20:45:00Z

It used to be that if she was asked to give up a performances in favor of another dancer, she would agree to it, but be upset. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

After Johnsey’s frustrating experiences with established troupes, he helped found Ballet de Barcelona in Spain, which welcomes dancers of all identities and is developing ballets that interrogate conceptions of gender. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

She focuses on only a few characters: Leela, some of her dancer friends and Shetty, the wily owner of Night Lovers. Books of The Times: ?Beautiful Thing? by Sonia Faleiro 2012-02-29T22:52:22Z

After about 10 minutes, the three were joined on the runway by more and more and dancers, though it was by no means clear if they were part of the show. Music Review: Moving to Varied Beats at Bounce Ballroom 2014-05-02T22:29:31Z

No matter who the next director of the company is, the dancers are empowered. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

She’s also a former professional dancer, trained at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Snags appear amid skeins of carefree, virtuosic dancing: hands caught between two thighs, jiggling; exaggerated eye rolls; one dancer rattling another’s body parts like salt shakers. John Jasperse Reaches Into the Audience in ‘Within Between’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Here, the pace is frenetic as clusters of dancers dash from one side of the stage to the other and soloists break free, with ever-reaching arms and stretched fingers. Review: Sasha Waltz’s ‘Continu,’ Dances of Contrasting Moods 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

I caught a much livelier performance on Solomon Islands national day, when a group of dancer/musicians, their bodies painted, clad only in loincloths, performed canoe paddling chants of their ancestors with infectious energy. In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

On Thursday there were two dancers embodying the dual role of Odette-Odile. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z

Whether or not such glimpses of pathos are authentic or are just a “reality effect” spun by story editors, my affective response to these dancers’ artistic struggle is the same. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

But it wasn’t because she was shooting a scene involving 30 dancers, 100 extras and at least 60 cars on an exit ramp connecting two major freeways in Los Angeles. Shall They Dance? Making ‘La La Land’ Move 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

“It is. I’m a dancer, after all. It’s all context and intention.” A Dance Without Dance, and a Harbor for Stormy Souls 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

One of the few Black women to follow her as a principal dancer in a major company, Misty Copeland of American Ballet Theater has credited her as an inspiration. A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The contract, ratified this week, will also establish a formal process for dancers to share ideas about artistic and marketing decisions, and install gym equipment on the fifth floor of the David H. Koch Theater. ArtsBeat: City Ballet Dancers Agree to New Contract 2014-03-07T22:09:54Z

Those dancers, after all, are auditioning for a show whose actual star we never meet. Review: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Still High-Stepping but Showing Its Age 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

She envisioned those in leadership as being detached from the country, which is how the dancers moved: with their heads seemingly disconnected, almost dislocated, from their bodies. Review: Looking for a Hero? Hold on to These Dancers 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Without the inspirational presence that lured dancers from around the world to work in this drab industrial city? Guarding a Bright Flame?s Afterglow 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

When choreographers talk of putting dancers on pedestals, they’re often speaking metaphorically about attempts to idealize bodies. Milka Djordjevich Puts Dancers on a Pedestal in ‘MASS’ 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Yet, from the first, Mr. Neenan’s touch is slightly off: The dynamics he keeps asking of his dancers are always more emphatic than their musical accompaniment. ‘We, the Dancers’: At City Ballet’s Gala, Affirming Ballet’s Honor 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

How would you inspire young black or Asian dancers, male or female? London's Ballet Black wants to take success abroad 2010-03-29T15:47:00Z

In Allen’s version, the 12 dancers are boys. Leesburg teen steps up for touring musical ‘Brothers of the Knight’

Happily, “Daphnis” left a different memory of the dancers; musical, sparkling, fervent, the Paris Opera Ballet at its best. Dance Review: In Paris, Benjamin Millepied Rises to the Occasion 2014-05-12T10:57:39Z

In this lively, jazzy composition, a repetitive and dreamy concoction featuring a persistent back-and-forth between piano and horns, the dancers were continually propelled through space and then pulled back into stillness. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

But other corners of the contemporary social dance world are also embracing a non-gendered approach to leading and following — a reflection of how the world has changed, and who dancers are off the floor. A Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Dialogue and dancers were added, as was “With Joy, Hope and Wonder,” a canticle meant to show the naïvely welcoming attitude of the Britons before they are destroyed by the invaders. ‘War of the Worlds’ Shape-Shifts Onto the London Stage 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

An usher may present one bouquet before exiting to the opposite side of the stage, or he might pivot and return to the wings to retrieve another bouquet for another dancer. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The grandest, most innovative and most unpossessable of dancers, she was at once the coolest and the most inflamed, the wittiest and the most inspiringly audacious. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Stages Balanchine in Washington 2012-11-12T23:09:41Z

While snow fell outside this weekend, dancers indoors were performing naked, on both the East and West Sides of Midtown Manhattan. Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The event climaxed with Casey performing Tap Your Troubles Away from Mack and Mabel, accompanied by 14 dancers in top hats and spats. MacFarlane croons Broadway tunes 2012-08-28T08:24:20Z

These are manipulated by dancers who also double up as the fairies in a fascinating switch of scale and perspective. This week's new dance 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

Though the props sent my mind to Alice and acid trips, the steadier impression arose from the loose structure: How the casually clad dancers periodically slipped into unison, as into something more comfortable. Dance for the People (by the Pros) at the River to River Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Collaborative teaching program will offer on-site intensive training and professional workshops to teaching artists, dancers and classroom teachers at the institute’s Harlem headquarters. National Dance Institute Starts Teacher Training Program 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

For the planned 2023 Broadway production, he is rethinking the number of swings and covers to step into any role at any time so that injured dancers will feel less pressure to perform. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Among the stools were aisles, up and down which Mr. Serle and three other dancers began to travel. Dance Review: Lee Serle?s ?P.O.V.? at New York Public Library - Review 2011-11-14T23:27:13Z

Shaved heads make it difficult to tell the dancers apart, and identical costumes — light-brown baggy pants and long-sleeved shirts streaked with gray — transform the cluster of bodies into constantly morphing tactile shapes. Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater Performs 2 Meditative Works 2014-02-21T23:02:01Z

She was backed by a crack band that provided keyboards, percussion and bass, and at times was joined by a male dancer. Review | As crowd roars, Robyn dances on her own at the Anthem 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Within this surging scene are fleeting moments in which the dancers quote aspects of American life and culture. Review: Stephen Petronio Pledges Allegiance to a Dance Lineage 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Now, the dancers have their own green screen and camera setups at home, so he can showcase them safely. ‘Heck Yeah, We’re Dancing’: It’s Diplo, Live From His Living Room 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

He was a teen in 2004, assisting a successful tap dancer named Danny Wallace, who wasn’t with Break the Floor at the time, but would go on to run one of its subsidiary conventions. Mega dance company bred culture of sex, silence, dancers say 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

On paper, Mr. Brooks is the choreographer, and Ms. Whelan the dancer and his partner onstage. Whelan and Brooks: Blurring Creation and Interpretation in Dance 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“The archive,” as one dancer put it, “is our bodies.” Turning the Gestures of Everyday Life Into Art 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Then the Fairy Godmother leads all four dancers in a quick recap, with all four quoting particular steps. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The Yellow Brick Road is four dancers with tall scepters and fulsome James Brown wigs. Review | With the disco-funk ‘The Wiz,’ we are so not in Kansas anymore 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

When I caught up with the advanced students after the Ballet Theater performance that afternoon, they told me that they had found the professional dancers inspiring but that they would rather be onstage themselves. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The Creative Futures programme will support about 200 painters, dancers, poets, film-makers and visual artists each year over the next three to five years. Scottish artists offered funds to get away from it all in Highland retreats 2011-01-14T20:35:53Z

At the Y, Mr. Abraham was presenting “The Radio Show” within the format of the Stripped/Dressed festival: This involves an introductory talk and practical demonstration by choreographer and dancers. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Radio Show,’ at 92nd Street Y 2014-03-17T22:24:10Z

For this show, produced by him and the Joyce, he has assembled a pickup company of eight lithe and skilled freelance dancers. Review: A Choreographer Stakes an Independent Claim 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

At the end, while the other three dancers strike Black Power poses, he rolls on the ground in a circle. At Ailey’s Spring Gala, Different Kinds of Hope 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

One of the few intentional changes made to "Available Light" has been Adams' additions to the score, "A few windows of pulsation for the dancers to hold on to," he says. 'Available Light,' a performance art landmark, makes the leap from 1983 to 2015 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Friday night's headliners are Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire, whose carnivalesque live show incorporates choreographed dancers, glitter cannons and fake palm trees. Glastonbury opens as rain predicted 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The work, titled "little hunger," places the dancers in "a cage of wire, a fortress of feathers and a stream of words written on the body." A double-bill from Aiko Kinoshita/acornDance and Company Y/Roel Hammerschlag 2010-05-25T20:02:00Z

She’s a beautiful dancer capable of classicism, repose, lyricism and ardor. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The one-minute video, in which three female dancers performed microscopic movements that caused their bodies to shake and shudder, went viral, producing thousands of comments and memes — some gently humorous, some more mocking. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

But there’s more going on, including an occasional touch of fascism conveyed by dancers in military sunglasses, shifting into rigid formations. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was written by Jonathan Stafford, a ballet master and former dancer who is at the helm of an interim leadership team while City Ballet seeks a successor for Mr. Martins. In City Ballet Shake-Up, One Dancer Out and Two Suspended 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

After the event, one of the dancers and Artistic Director Julie Kent, the famed ballerina and former star of American Ballet Theatre, became ill. Perspective | The Washington Ballet thought a virtual fundraiser was safe. But it still may have put artists at risk. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

They would perform the diabolically difficult Kingdom of the Shades scene in the third act, when approximately 40 dancers descend four ramps in a slow procession meant to evoke an opium dream. Bolshoi Ballet Carries On Amid Acid Attack Scandal 2013-01-28T23:03:44Z

But when Guillot presents a small ballet troupe for Manon’s amusement, the 16 dancers here have to maneuver around that twisting ramp. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z

At one point in the film, an animated DJ Spinn taps an MPC, the sampling device that is the main instrument of footwork music, and an animated dancer bounces on the keys. ‘It Taunts the Eye’: Footwork’s Fast Moves Loom Over Chicago 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

And though Artem had claimed that “acting for me is like reading Chinese,” the pro dancer embraced his smooth criminal role and provided a worthy audition for “Bonnie &; Clyde: The Musical.” 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: NASCAR's Michael Waltrip sputters out 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

The dancer, 32, with green eyes and an unruly shock of dishwater blond hair, looked fit if somewhat chunkier than in his halcyon days as a Bolshoi soloist. Out of Prison for Acid Attack, Dancer Hopes to Get Back to the Bolshoi 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

In a rehearsal, he micromanages every last nuance of expression — the curve of the fingers, the gestures, musical timing — as he coaches dancers through a pas de deux. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty

Now that career — an extraordinarily long one by dancer standards — is almost over. Sylvie Guillem Prepares to End Her Ballet Career 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In the opening section, the dancer’s manipulations of a long white cloth call up images of domestic labor, maternal care and regal independence. ‘Just Speaking From My Body’ 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

In studio six, an actor has stripped to his pants and is waiting to be smeared with blood by two female dancers: one in a black leotard, the other in a white one. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The huge box of stage space around the dancers was animated by their ardent three-dimensional physicality and their dynamics. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z

Eddie Wu, called “the Chinese Fred Astaire,” is the star male dancer at the Forbidden City. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s

Women wear calf-length pleated skirts as in some Indian dance genres; dancers representing demons, giants and monkeys wear masks. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z

This second company, led by Paul Taylor and the rehearsal director Ruth Andrien, features half the number of dancers of the Ailey and American Ballet Theater offshoots — six — yet performs with more gumption. Dance Review: Ailey II, ABT II and Taylor 2 at Joyce?s 1.2.3. Festival 2010-04-18T21:55:00Z

In the outer sections, the dancers, colour-coded in hues of mango, lemon and cherry, are put through their paces, from dressage-style footwork through to zooming jumps and gyroscope spins. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? review 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

“It’s important that each person is seen as an individual. There’s no cookie cutter look for a concert dancer.” Juilliard’s New Dance Director Comes From Ailey and Ballet 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Solos for each dancer were tantalizingly brief, and seemingly endless visions of Osipova whipping her long hair were maddening. A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Four years later he would create “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” for Ms. Guillem and a number of other brilliant young dancers. Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z

Frida also appears in the ballet as a male dancer, a deer, and a tiny skeleton, performed by a child. Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Finally this long phrase returns to the dancers’ arms and upper bodies. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

Here he creates a work the dancers can perform with a certain ease, but that doesn’t make up for his ambiguous artistic voice. Dance Review: Ailey II, ABT II and Taylor 2 at Joyce?s 1.2.3. Festival 2010-04-18T21:55:00Z

Heather Kravas and DD Dorvillier's "Super Negative" involved intriguing games of visibility and invisibility as dancers clad in black merged with and emerged from a dark background. Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation's 'Off the Cuff' 2011-08-05T18:08:03Z

Earlier this year, the American Ballet Theatre soloist was promoted to principal dancer; she is the New York company's first African American woman to hold that title. Ballerina Misty Copeland dances home to San Pedro 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

The audience cheered, and the dancers onstage buzzed excitedly around her. A William Forsythe Dancer Moves From Toe-Tapping to Handshaking 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In that moment, Ms. Tanowitz had been intimidated by the sweeping scale of the Goldberg; she feared that she didn’t have enough dancers to express its architecture. Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

During that performance, Mr. Bock wrote and drew on plastic, while a dancer executed movements choreographed by Mr. Bock. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

He was the most athletic, the most exciting, the most masculine, the most commercial dancer of his time. Singin' in the Rain Is Back: What a Glorious Feeling! 2012-07-12T20:14:04Z

As the dancers shift from side to side, they reach their arms in opposition to lunging legs and either remain fixed in one spot — bouncing in place — or weaving among one another. Dance Review: ‘Rian,’ From Fabulous Beast Dance Theater, at Gerald W. Lynch 2012-11-10T00:56:45Z

The company today is directed by Janet Eilber, who was probably the finest of the Graham dancers I watched in the 1970s. Dance Review: Martha Graham’s Company Offer Some of Her Greek Myth Dances 2014-03-20T23:13:59Z

Evans’ first musical as a dancer on Broadway was “New Girl in Town,” which starred Gwen Verdon and was choreographed by Fosse. Harvey Evans, actor in Broadway’s golden years, dies at 80 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Four unions representing the show’s musicians, stagehands, dressers and its dancers, the Rockettes, did not respond to requests for comment. At the Radio City Christmas Show, Some Workers Worry About Covid Rules 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

As the raft deflated, the dancers gathered it around them like a blanket. Dance Review: Eckert+SorensenJolink at Judson Memorial Church 2013-01-22T23:12:46Z

The dream shower was suggested here by a dozen dancers in skintight gold outfits, who twisted and turned in a heavenly space above the rapt Danae. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The dispersal of the dancers does away with a longstanding tradition, although the Met was able to provide few details of the ballet troupe’s early history. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

She worked briefly as a go-go dancer, joined the punk scene and became addicted to heroin. Maggie Estep, Slam Poetry Performer, Dies at 50 2014-02-13T01:06:41Z

She taught the dancers all of the material. Twyla Tharp Wants You to Move 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The dancers also humanized the Adams concerto, warming up a cerebral, often astringent score. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage

These were creative homes for thousands of dancers, places where they could not only train but also find connection in Hollywood’s otherwise fiercely competitive dance scene. Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

At Hudson Hall, Mr. Weinert is combining the live performance of his own “Monument” with film of the dancers performing the work in a nearby Elks Lodge with a 1930s ballroom. Selective Affinities: Adam Weinert Finds a Lineage and a Home 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Today, MISK, which puts on shows at least once a year, counts 12 dancers. Male ballet dancer hopes to break stereotypes in Jordan 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

I was working on a play once with a dancer and she looked at my long arms outstretched and she said, “My God, Pamela, your wingspan.” ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Aside from those swaying dancers, Platt’s seekers seem to be in a place of stillness and contemplation. Review | In the galleries: Finding the unknown within what is known 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In this story collection, a young graduate student navigates a turbulent love triangle with two dancers, a babysitter is driven to the brink and two childhood friends come to terms with their mutual desires. New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The Nutcracker Westside Ballet performs the holiday favorite with a live orchestra and guest dancer and alumna Joy Womack. The week ahead in L.A. dance, Dec. 3-10: 'The Nutcracker,' 'Fiesta Mexicana' and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Painters, dancers and musicians often rely on precarious, part-time jobs to fund their passions, and basic incomes are seen as a way to let them focus on artistic pursuits. Ireland Asks: What if Artists Could Ditch Their Day Jobs? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Dunn’s dancers are always highly technical; they need to be to perform choreography that calls for exacting line. Review: Dancing With the Flowers and Douglas Dunn 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

I'm off to do three interviews back-to-back now: Czech violin and film star Iva Bittová, the dancers from Flamenco Hoy and Jason Craig, performing Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z

The exertion leads to stillness: dancers curl on the floor in fetal positions or pose around a white chair, the only object on the stage. Dance in Review 2011-06-17T22:48:58Z

Watching the dancers together is to see two highly sensitive instruments at play. Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Another reason is that, as everyone who's read about the film knows, director Darren Aronofsky insisted she practice for six arduous months to become a plausible dancer. No Strings Attached Review: The Thawing of Natalie Portman 2011-01-21T16:35:00Z

Other principal dancers brought numerous bouquets in homage. Dance Review: Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici Depart City Ballet 2014-03-02T23:25:56Z

Even though there's an exhilarating brief finale when all the dancers mass together on stage, it's too little and too late. Alonzo King Lines Ballet 2010-08-27T16:53:00Z

Its ending curiously echoed a moment in “Falling Bodies,” two dancers kneeling reverently at the feet of their fellows. Dance Review: Skybetter & Associates Dance at Joyce SoHo 2012-04-09T21:24:23Z

He's not a bad dancer either, even if he executes his moves with drilled skill rather than natural elan. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z

This work uses dancers from Mr. McGregor’s company and the Paris Opera Ballet, an unusual combination that, along with its illustrious collaborators, helped build excitement. Review: ‘Tree of Codes’ Flaunts Jaw-Dropping Effects 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

The folk artist Clementine Hunter, a descendant of slaves, lined an outbuilding near her home in Melrose, La., with colorful murals of church processions, dancers, newlyweds and field hands harvesting cotton and pecans. Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Martins did not immediately respond to requests for comment about these accounts from the dancers. City Ballet’s Peter Martins Takes Leave of Absence After Misconduct Accusation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Aerialists, acrobats, jugglers, dancers and more return for another year of what organizers tout as the “world’s largest comedy/varietè festival.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Each year more than 200 writers, dancers, painters, composers and other artists spend between two and eight weeks at the estate at no cost. ArtsBeat: Philip Roth to Be Honored With Yaddo Medal 2014-04-08T17:36:53Z

When flamenco dancers perform as if “Music Makes Me” were their motto, then the art form flourishes. Dance Review: Eva Yerbabuena Stars in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-10T21:17:14Z

Happily, even airy whimsy cannot suppress the dancers’ specificity. Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Farmer is a commanding dancer, displaying a crisp, cool assurance as she goes after the man she wants. Tharp delivers libido-charged Sinatra love letter 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

The implicit connection with fertility is made explicit in the final line of the poem, when Herrick calls on the dancers, once they wed, to "multiply all, like to fishes". Poster poems: May 2012-05-18T12:50:18Z

A lot of acrobats and dancers and people who have to watch their weight go there. David Furnish on Food, Fizz and Fun in Las Vegas 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“Preludes” resolves where it began, in a circle that has widened to include the whole cast, whereas “Yowzie” ends in arrested motion, with the dancers coming straight at us. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

So do unexpected partnerships between dancers from different companies and far-apart disciplines. Review: From Balanchine to Jookin, a Sampler of Summer Souvenirs 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The pair, along with the other dancers, have settled in The Hague’s former music conservatory. An Ad Hoc Ukrainian Ballet Troupe Settles Into Life in The Hague 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

On Friday at the Rose Theater, those exceptional dancers, with choreographic direction from the former New York City Ballet principal Damian Woetzel, brought heaps of elegance, dexterity and charm to the world premiere of “Spaces.” Review: Jared Grimes and Lil Buck Embody Their Animal Muses in ‘Spaces’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

With more than 200 dancers, it is by far the world's biggest ballet company, home to endless intrigue. Bolshoi rocked by scandal and intrigue 2011-03-22T19:52:49Z

"Pond" is about pattern — and about dancers as magical morphing sculptures. Seattle's Chamber Dance Company delivers fun and finesse 2010-10-15T19:49:00Z

One idea of freedom is introduced by the dancers running to Led Zeppelin. Dance Review: Jasmin Vardimon Company Dances at Montclair State 2013-04-21T20:37:31Z

The primary delights in “Bring It On” are the breathtaking displays of human fireworks that send the show’s well-drilled dancers flying skyward, forming towering human pyramids, or tumbling across the stage backward, like electric-powered Slinkys. | 'Bring It On: The Musical': ?Bring It On: The Musical? at Ahmanson Theater - Review 2011-11-22T23:00:56Z

I dated a dancer when I was in college. Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

But, really, she admires the whole Taylor organization — especially the bond among its dancers. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Annmaria Mazzini, who retired from the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 2011, is a dancer of great passion, and it was good to see her back onstage. Downtown Dance Festival's Echoes of Pete Seeger 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The dancer Christopher McDaniel said that Mitchell seemed frail at those rehearsals. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

There are sections of the show when Beyoncé sings alone, but it’s never long before the dancers return, as few as a pair or as many as 20, and she dances with them. Heels on the Ground: Beyoncé and the Army of Women at Her Command 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Look closely while at SAM Thursday; some of the sculptures may look back Lingo at SAM Do dancers belong in an art museum? Look closely while at SAM Thursday; some of the sculptures may look back 2010-03-31T21:06:00Z

Then the dancers knelt, rolled up their rugs, took off their cloaks to display their white robes and started to whirl on the wooden floor. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

That last factor is particularly important, as many of the dancers travel long distances to get to CB3. A Mirrored Mecca for K-Pop Moves 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Leaping and kicking dancers also wore all manner of everyday street wear: sneakers, dresses, crop tops, shorts, skirts, leotards and jeans. Opening Ceremony Swaps the Runway for the Ballet Stage 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

A flower turns into a tutu and then into a ballet dancer performing in Swan Lake. The Heads – review 2013-01-20T16:34:24Z

The dancers themselves were meant to represent the destinies of the tribes; the original program featured them as four moons in a painting by the artist Jerome Tiger, who was Muscogee-Seminole. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The third premiere, “Continuum,” is choreographed by Lila York, this season’s Taylor Company Commissions recipient and a veteran Taylor dancer. Paul Taylor American Modern Dance Plans 3 Premieres for Lincoln Center 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The main cast also share their scenes with professional underwater dancers and gymnasts. How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

That’s because when dancers leave the company, others do not simply take over their roles. A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Dance today is rapidly reinventing itself – and dancers want to experiment with as wide a range of choreographers and styles as possible. Judith Mackrell on dance 2010-05-26T21:45:00Z

Joffrey Ballet dancer Victoria Jaiani hadn’t performed for three months as a result of pandemic shutdowns, and she was doubtful she’d dance this fall. ‘The Nutcracker’ is the coronavirus’s latest casualty. Here’s what the loss means for some ballet companies. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Benson won an amateur contest as a dancer in the 1920s and, by the mid-1930s, he was touring the country telling jokes. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Instead, the theater is inviting singers, dancers, comedians, rappers, spoken-word artists, musicians and variety acts to submit videos up to five minutes long to audition for its 2020-21 season. Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night Auditions Go Digital 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

“I should hire him just because he’s Finnish?” he said about a dancer he admires but who doesn’t fit the repertory. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

There were a lot of dancers to keep track of. Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Monday’s dancers paid terrific attention to taxing details of rapid footwork and charming posture while passing casually over matters like line, dynamic contrasts, expressive phrasing. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

The final tableau is conclusive, yet some of the dancers’ arms wiggle, wonderfully, like seaweed. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2013-02-02T01:32:24Z

His characters, who included herbalists and nightclub dancers, ate foods that were unknown to most Americans such as "medicine pigtail soup," "smoked duck feet steamed with pork" or "bitter melon." 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

In keeping with the Dance Cartel ethos, the team has also tried to highlight dancers’ individual strengths and quirks. A Dance Show on a Cruise Ship? It’s Not What You Think. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

I also relate to the scene in the club where Sahil and Rosebud are sort of staring at this sculpted go-go dancer and talking about what they do and don't like about his body. Dissecting "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys" 2010-12-08T14:01:00Z

Along the way, dancers visit a holiday party at Gracie Mansion, perform in the Crystal Palace at the New York Botanical Garden and skate in Central Park. 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

During a rehearsal for “Ode,” he told the dancers to ask Ms. Logan anything. At Alvin Ailey, a Quiet Disrupter With No Time for Tears 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Make no mistake, he said: Wizdom dancers are not second-rate performers. With age comes ‘Wizdom.’ The Wizards’ 50-and-older dance squad is thrilling crowds. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

She knows how to keep dancers still and create sculptural groupings. | Columbia Ballet Collaborative: Six New Works From Columbia Ballet Collaborative 2010-04-11T21:31:00Z

Still, in preparing to direct and choreograph a revival of “Dancin’” for Broadway, he said he was more conscious of looking out for his dancers than Fosse was. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Established in the hopes of rewarding innovation and promoting progress, the first U.S. copyright laws, which were established in 1787 and 1790 and based on statutes from Britain, didn't grant rights to artists and dancers. There’s a long history of dances being pilfered for profit — and TikTok is the latest battleground 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

Later, a slow-motion fight between Mr. Jasperse and Ms. Cornell is nerve-rackingly violent; there is a long, strangely poetic sequence in which the dancers and musicians remain almost motionless with white doilies over their heads. Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z

The dancers make visible the sound, a seamless selection of jazz, house, hip-hop and R&B; the musicians get up and dance. LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

When she finally does show, she’s as odd as any member of the show’s loopy universe, dragging a car-dealership air dancer into the campaign office and gleefully watching it unfurl. Review: Hillary Clinton's 'Broad City' Appearance Was a Win 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

I wanted my dancers and the audience to be exposed to that.” Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z

In other words, the dancers want to look cool but friendly. Dance Review: Slapped, Stamped and Delivered 2011-02-23T23:12:03Z

But twists of story line are remarkably easy to follow in Mr. Berger’s version, which eliminates a festive subplot involving Morris dancers to focus on matters of the heart. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z

Traditionally, the roles of the black and the white swans are performed by one dancer; here, there are two, but that’s hardly the only deviation. Dance Review: ‘Lac,’ Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Reimagined ‘Swan Lake’ 2014-03-16T19:44:39Z

Suddenly, the legs of dancers, usually so sleek and muscular, were transformed into balloon art. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The end of the Cold War later erased the trope of defecting dancers. American to Join the Bolshoi Ballet 2011-09-20T19:30:11Z

I mean, I wanted to be a dancer on “Soul Train.” Trans-ported: the power of walking in someone else’s shoes 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The Mariinsky said she was also the first American to receive a degree from the Vaganova, a storied school that produced George Balanchine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Anna Pavlova, among other prominent dancers. ArtsBeat: Another American Dancer Joins a Russian Ballet Company 2012-01-19T22:00:57Z

I’m willing to guess it’s her dancer’s intelligence at work as she shades her elegantly uplifted bearing with a slight hesitancy in her arms, and her movements lag the music. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

I was also relieved to find that Jack, a delicate ballet dancer, had also hurt his foot that week only he had thought to adorn his crutches with sequins and glitter. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z

She teamed with the great black dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in two 1935 films with Civil War themes, “The Little Colonel” and “The Littlest Rebel.” Shirley Temple, Iconic Child Star, Dies at 85 2014-02-11T11:24:36Z

The Vienna State Opera’s ballet academy vowed to reform its practices after former students and staff said dancers as young as 11 were kicked, scratched and handled roughly in classes. Abuse Allegations Rock Vienna Ballet School 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The dancers say City Ballet is responsible for its own financial straits. Deficit Complicates City Ballet Labor Talks 2011-04-27T22:30:12Z

More polished than the dancers at Fries, everyone knew how to flatfoot, and the tap shoes kept the time. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z

Fairchild, a popular principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, had never been in a Broadway musical. Ballet stars talk Tony-nominated 'An American in Paris' and Broadway leap 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Thus, the dinner, the dancers and the dance critic. Perspective | The night I danced with Arthur Mitchell at the White House 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

As a dancer trained in ballet, Primeaux-O’Bryant said he was particularly attuned to the vibrations of a piano as transmitted through a wooden floor. Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

I was a dancer, and I was really toned. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

As is traditional, Dorrance invited up all the tap dancers in the audience for an impromptu jam. Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s not a good sign when the most striking section involves dancers checking their own pulses. Review: Danish Dance Theater, Pulse-Checking and a Rave for the Undead 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Farrell, the artistic director, has called this final season a “poignant celebration” of her dancers. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Yet you can’t help wanting him to stay in one spot with one company around the year and mold its dancers fully as expressive instruments. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z

You long for someone to do something with these dancers that they haven’t done before, compel them to discover new facets of their artistry instead of insistently reiterating their own brilliance. Dance Review: Ailey Continues to Build on Its Proud Tradition 2010-12-05T23:11:00Z

“Even if I was in something with other dancers, which was sort of stressful.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

But this repertory offers an exciting opportunity to see these dancers, steeped in the grand imperial style, perform in newer and unfamiliar choreography. Greetings From Russia; The Feet Will Follow 2011-07-07T20:02:57Z

On Wednesday night, Ms. Kirschenbaum wove effortlessly through the crowd at the stage door and sidled up to the principal dancers and purred in their ears about how simply fabulous they were. Character Study: Lois Kirschenbaum, 79, Art Buff and Queen of the Nosebleed Seats 2012-06-09T04:34:57Z

Other upbeat passages, by contrast, found the dancers clutching their abdomens as if in gastrointestinal distress. Danish Dance Theatre’s ‘Black Diamond’ tries to dazzle but ends up murky 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

For the professional dancers, the biggest “Nutcracker” woes involve their costumes, props and choreography. What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Gaines would take images -- a tree, a moving dancer -- and render them on specially created grids, capturing layers of shadow or movement in densely abstracted, coolly mathematical pieces. Datebook: Conceptual grids, earthy caves and lots of Italian masters 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, the company’s star dancer, Bijayini Satpathy, broke off on her own to try her hand at solo work and choreography. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

We eyed the few really accomplished dancers gliding around the room, being followed slowly, somewhat stiffly, by other couples like us, trying to make their bodies converse without words. Maryhill Museum invites you to tango nights in the Gorge 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Israeli choreographer Gat fit salsa steps to Stravinsky’s thunder and made the moves look surprisingly natural, helped along by the five dancers’ confidence, edge and slight touch of hostility. Polish National Ballet’s uplifting humanity 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Faith," the final section is performed in the nude, with the dancers in stiletto heels: "We made up all the movement without high heels on. Seattle choreographer Pat Graney revamps her 'Faith Triptych' at On the Boards 2010-10-13T23:22:00Z

While the dancers are more playmates than enemies, they approach the stage with a brusqueness that begins with their anchored feet and newly reconfigured body. Bebe Miller Introduces Two Choreographers in Gibney Series 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The rehearsal was led by Jean-Pierre Frohlich, a former dancer with an encyclopedic knowledge of Robbins’s choreography who is now in charge of keeping the Robbins ballets in shape at the company. Dancing to Bach’s Cello Suites 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

This, he said, is how he became the best-known krump dancer in New York, the go-to guy: “If you see a younger dancer, they took my class or took from a student of mine.” For Brian Henry, Finding Krump ‘Felt Like Home, but a Better Version’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

She told Trenary that it was too pretty, that all the dancers in her day did something different with each performance as long as the death landed on the right count. This Ballerina Has a Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible’ 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

Through various stagings and revisions, it remained a Russian repertory staple over the next century, as familiar to audiences and dancers as “Swan Lake” or “Giselle.” Dance: Natalia Makarova?s ?Bayad?re? at Ballet Theater 2010-05-13T14:34:00Z

To those wedded to the old image of the art form, the female dancers at City Ballet could hardly be considered “ballerinas” at all, so radically athletic was their dancing. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

At first, they didn’t think of themselves as dancers at all. Cholly Atkins Taught Motown to Dance. His Moves Get an Update in ‘Ain’t Too Proud.’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

They turn up to concerts with spatulas and chef hats, and the best dancers are crowned "master chefs". Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing? 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z

The sight of one generation shifting to the next has never felt as dramatic as it does now at City Ballet, where talented dancers, from principal to apprentice, are remaking and refueling the company. Best Dance Performances of 2022 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The dancers who paved the way for her — many of whom didn’t receive the recognition they deserved — were at the front of her mind when she got the news about the award, she added. Dormeshia Wins Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

About halfway through “Heroes,” a duet by the Israeli choreographers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, one of the dancers breaks into song. Review: Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, Seeking Connection and Dissolving Into Humor 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

HAMRICK: I think it’s amazing that we’re seeing the other side of dancers a bit because ballet has always been behind a gilded curtain, you know, this facade. A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Royal Ballet productions include a new version of "Don Quixote" created by Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta. Royal Opera chief: Modern singers lack stamina 2013-03-13T17:12:11Z

Stafford said, “There wasn’t a clear delineation of, OK, who handles this when we see a dancer who may be struggling and not as healthy as we need them to be?” What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

The new ballet risks offending other sensitivities, with dancers being asked to pretend to be mentally ill — more realistically than, say, a ballerina dancing the mad scene in “Giselle.” Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

As the manic, speedy dancers enter into this state, Platel plays with the bond of sympathy and appreciation between them and the audience, in the process paying homage to his mentor, the late Pina Bausch. This week's new dance 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

In the prologue, a baby — an adult dancer with a baby’s huge, roughly drawn head and bulging arms and legs — emerges, kicking its way to life and haltingly learning to walk. Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Theobald said she’s been contacting other company directors across Europe to see if she can help find the uprooted dancers new jobs. Ukrainian, Russian refugee dancers find help in Berlin 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

There lies the former dancer Elijah, in his briefs, bed strewn with pretzels, a half-drunk bottle of Gatorade by his side. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah and Adam Try to Rebuild 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The dancers had spread themselves around the auditorium and were drumming the floor and walls, working up a storm in surround sound. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

It’s run by this woman named Lauren who used to be a dancer. Alia Shawkat Owns Her Curly-Haired Cool 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

She says she's hoping that "ballet dancers are the new vampires." Arabesques, reality-style: Ballet hits pop culture 2012-06-29T19:01:09Z

The dancers were fantastic and did they ever dance! Stage reader review roundup: what have you seen this week? 2013-03-05T14:20:11Z

Some of the world’s best and most exciting flamenco dancers will be popping up at performance spaces throughout the city. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Dance movies—or movies with dance in them—have a long and storied history, populated mainly by professional dancers. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Still, even though Ms. Lopez has built successfully upon the achievements of her predecessor, the founding director Edward Villella — both were New York City Ballet principal dancers — her company is now in transition. Review: Miami City Ballet Brings Its Own Sunshine to Jacob’s Pillow 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The film is also a portrait of what it’s really like to be a dancer today. Thoroughly Modern Polina 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

In an interview Sunday evening Mr. Wheeldon said there was not enough of a cadre of full-time dancers to work with. Wheeldon Quits Dance Troupe He Created 2010-02-22T22:32:00Z

In Budapest, the Hungarian State Opera Ballet is in talks to offer positions to Ukrainian dancers, a spokesman said. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

This softness is the opposite of the crisp, taut dynamism of Balanchine, which the dancers are so used to. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

They could teach American ballet dancers a thing or two about using their eyes. With Fitzgerald adaptation 'Up & Down,' Eifman succeeds on his own, melodramatic terms 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

These are all impressive dancers, who here confirmed the winning impressions they have made in other roles. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

“I distinctly remember hearing that certain dancers had graduated and thought: Oh wow, that’s possible,” he said. Clearing the Stage for a Big Graduation Number at City Ballet 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

This is Ballet Theater’s 75th anniversary; its dancers are good enough to be asked for a more exposing style that would let them compete with the great corps of history. Review: American Ballet Theater Revives ‘La Bayadère’ Using Familiar Choreography 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

“And she’s not an MBA who does this for a living, but a dancer who understood the need from a customer’s perspective.” ‘I could immediately imagine people dancing and leaping’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

These dancers, who she felt so close to, they were going through that age of AIDS. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The show features a 19-piece band, 15 dancers and many of Sinatra's most popular songs. Frank Sinatra musical `Come Fly Away' to close 2010-07-28T21:26:00Z

This acclaimed classical Indian dancer returns to the Joyce with an evening of solos called “Akasha,” the Sanskrit word for “sky” or “space.” 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Less space was needed per dancer to create eye-catching, unexpected moves that could fill the stage with surprises. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Gwen Verdon, the celebrated dancer and Fosse’s wife, used to say it was like putting a car in neutral while flooring the gas. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The dancers romp through this evocative, shifting space, often linking hands, like children, while waltzing one another about and running in myriad ways, their steps now mincing, now muscular. Dance Review: Playing Like Children, but Much Is at Stake 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z

If Hollander had her way, she would have had 100 dancers. In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

For "As Long As You Love Me," however, he brought in backup dancers and interacted with the models while moving around a giant makeshift pinball machine. Rihanna a rock star on Victoria's Secret catwalk 2012-11-08T04:05:08Z

The youngest principal in the history of the Royal Danish Ballet, he was one of the last dancers to work closely with George Balanchine at New York City Ballet. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z

It’s a curious feature of this production that Mr. Chumakov and Ms. Petrichenko, who also appear in both acts as Arabian dancers, receive the loudest applause. Moscow Ballet Arrives With Its ‘Great Russian Nutcracker’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The reviews of “King Lear” were possibly even worse; Cordelia was played by a ballet dancer with her mouth taped shut. A French Theater Impresario, Dressed for Excess 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The ceaseless nature of the dancers, who move from soft to hard and back again as their whiplash arms and legs connect and retreat, sets a ritualistic tone. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

A dancer since she was 6 — she trained in the Chinese classical and folk forms — she found herself drawn to modern dance in college. Living and Breathing Martha Graham 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

If this has ever happened to you, the dancer was probably me. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

They are also getting a profound input from the dancers. Pina Bausch for ever 2010-08-09T20:31:00Z

The brief "Clapping Music," Reich's well-known party piece for two percussionists clapping their hands in phase-altering rhythms, provides a sweet coda for the two dancers in silent movie antic mode. Dance review: 'Fase' a mesmerizing Minimalism map to Steve Reich's music 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“When a human being dances with another human being, something happens,” says Pierre Dulaine, a champion ballroom dancer turned teacher. ‘Dancing in Jaffa’: Ballroom dance as political therapy 2014-04-24T20:46:41Z

The aspiring dancers lined up Tuesday on a Manhattan street outside Radio City Music Hall for the open audition. Dancers audition to appear with Rockettes in NYC 2013-04-30T17:24:09Z

Each is on a rope of a slightly different length, and so as the dancers walk calmly or lope rhythmically along the wall, they must negotiate their crossings. Dance Review: At Edge of Whitney, Touching the Void 2010-10-01T23:45:00Z

Dressed only in undershirts and shorts, seven male dancers of the Cambodian Amrita Performing Arts institution held the audience’s attention on Sunday evening at the Guggenheim Museum with unfailing skill and charm. Dance Review: ‘Khmeropédies III’ and Amrita Performing Arts at the Guggenheim 2013-04-29T21:44:28Z

After the first act, a miscue caught the dancers and stage crew in a mad dash for the wings. Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center

The tap dancers, accompanied by the saxophonist Stacy Dillard, started things off, aggressively stamping on platforms arranged in an artfully askew manner, while the hip-hop dancers stared back with puffed-up chests and disdainful expressions. Dance Review: Futuristic Face-Off Caps a Four-Part Program 2010-10-07T22:20:00Z

The piece ends with a sort of Dying Swan solo for a dancer in white. Review: Dancing in the Liquid Realm of Dreams 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine a dancer finding his or her way through this fog of notes. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The first of these is also one of the ballet's wonders: against a twilit, watery sky, dancers spin delicate traceries of movement that shimmer, coalesce and fade like the clouds themselves. Royal Ballet Mixed Programme – review 2013-02-24T17:45:01Z

I went to see “Swan Lake” when I was about 8, and it really cemented the idea of a male dancer in my mind. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

In a recent rehearsal, the dancers executed sections from the dance in their apartments, with Mr. Morris watching and commenting. The Pragmatist’s Progress: Mark Morris Adapts to Creating Online 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Dominic Walsh is a former principal dancer of Houston Ballet; his company is based in Houston. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z

The auditions spanned 11 hours, and for prospective dancers, attendance that day — and for all future “Nutcracker” events — was mandatory. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Sansano was a Hubbard Street Dance Chicago dancer when he premiered this work for Luna Negra Dance Theater a decade ago, but, as of this season, he's now Luna Negra's artistic director. 'Flabbergast' an unrelenting blast of entertainment 2011-03-13T17:52:00Z

Surrounded by booming electronic dance beats and a corps of hip-hop dancers, Mr. Roumain is game, likable and inoffensive to the core. Music Review: Daniel Bernard Roumain at Harvey Theater - Review 2011-10-14T23:11:29Z

At 47, Ms. Slavenska retired from dancing, spending the next 40 years teaching in California and New York, where her students included many of the postmodern dancers behind the revolutionary Judson Dance Theater. ‘Mia, a Dancer’s Journey,’ at Film Festival in New York 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

By Bachelor standards, the outing is pretty lame — no Thai dancers, no zip-lining. The Bachelor Watch: And The Blondes Played On 2012-01-10T14:30:01Z

Only in the third movement do the three leading dancers satisfyingly prove that they share the same world. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z

He met his third and current wife, Elaine Taylor, a former actress and dancer, in Ireland on the set of a 1969 movie, “Lock Up Your Daughters!”; they have lived in Connecticut for years. The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Gets Oscar Buzz 2011-12-21T22:58:47Z

"I queued up for four hours next to two pole dancers and I thought 'what have I let myself in for?'" recalls Marsden. 2010-01-20T08:05:00Z

Once again, the dancers look wary, but their anxiety seemed misplaced. Review: Summation Dance, in a Kaleidoscope Repeatedly Snapping Into Focus 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Watching the dancers in the company she had rebuilt, she was impressed by their technique, by the way they had melded into a group. Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

With only six dancers, the group was an intimate, highly mobile offshoot of the celebrated Paul Taylor Dance Company, designed to bring Taylor’s beautifully made works to colleges and small towns. The pandemic was the final blow for some dance companies. How do the survivors stay nimble? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The music was taped: a cause for regret, though forgivable when we heard of the trouble in obtaining visas for these dancers. Review: At Indian Dance Festival, Subtleties in the Sway of a Torso 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

These dancers dream of reaching the finals in New York City. This isn't tutus and tiaras: The ballet Grand Prix draws young, driven competitors in droves 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Another point of entry was finding an unexpected connection with the other cast members, many of whom were trained dancers. Kate Nash Keeps Getting Back Up. This Time, Off Broadway. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Add to this national laws that set retirement age at 65, even though most dancers quit the stage before reaching 40. Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires Aims to Reclaim Glory Days with a New Direction 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

The immediacy of the music making is a perfect match for the freshness of the dancers. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

Ms. Eilber also provided dancers with photographs from the Spanish Civil War; several feature a fist salute with the thumb not in front, but to the side of closed fingers. ‘If I Was Martha, What Would I Do?’ For One, Stay Upright 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

No footage from the game was shown, but dancers from Jackson's "This Is It" tour took to the stage to perform a routine set to "Beat It" at the conclusion of Monday's event. Jackson fans will moonwalk in motion-sensing game 2010-06-15T00:55:00Z

The evening-length work is built around what she calls scores — a series of live instructions to the dancers, all part of her method of creating improvised movement. Dance Review: At Danspace, Physicality Gets a New Dimension 2011-02-25T23:21:03Z

The men lock arms but still one dancer slides to his knees. Review | The tragic beauty of Alvin Ailey’s politically charged dance programs 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

I said to the dancers, “I could go in this other direction, or we could just stick with what we’ve been working on.” ‘A Black Love Sitcom Dance’: Kyle Abraham’s D’Angelo Moves 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Less miraculous dancers, alas, need a little bit more in the way of movement material. Dance Review: First the Bonbon, Then the Main Course: Camp 2010-12-01T22:30:00Z

The thrill of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” a revival of the 1978 musical is, aptly, its dancers: 16 cast members and six understudies. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

It also misspelled the given name of a dancer in Justin Peck’s ballet. Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival Plunges Into the New 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

The singer is also a visual artist, dancer and writer. The world is one big art project for Bat for Lashes 2013-08-22T15:54:00Z

The dancers, with thin voices and self-conscious delivery, taunt one another with sarcasm, all the while pulling, poking and prodding one another’s bodies. Dance Review: Tiffany Mills Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-04T22:11:54Z

How wonderful to be brought the great American dance past by dancers from France. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Paggett, an L.A.-based dancer, is teaming up with Novak, a sound artist, for a daylong performance that examines issues of blackness in antiquity. Datebook: Towers of clay, the L.A. landscape reconsidered, dance at the Getty Villa 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

That evolution also reflects a new willingness among the dancers to probe their faith’s traditions and assumptions. Thirsty for Wisdom of the Body, Finding It in Dance 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

That work, too, was a collection of personal impressions, a collage of images, words, and steps set to music and performed by a group of friends, some but not all dancers. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

That, Mr. Battle described, is a place where everyone is vulnerable and where both sides — the dancers and the choreographer — become “the tribe of yes.” Robert Battle Finally Has His Steps in the Spotlight 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The director’s debut effort, the 2008 Filth and Wisdom, was at least recognizably Madonna in its tale of a pole dancer and a man in dominatrix drag. Madonna's W.E.: The Woman She Loves 2011-12-08T22:43:59Z

And while some people complained of the high price of tickets, Konstantin Selinevich, Ms. Vishneva’s husband and close collaborator, insisted that there are always low-priced tickets available for students and dancers. For Russians Tired of ‘Swan Lake,’ a Contemporary Alternative 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

And “Doubletoss” keeps recycling its dancers through different roles: someone who was playing a dead character soon comes back as a living one, and vice versa. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z

Jared Alexander, the only dancer new to me, impressed with the fecundity of his imagination, at one point incorporating an imaginary jump rope, even if he seemed to get a little lost. Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Accounts by the choreographer, epileptic and dancer Rita Marcalo of well-meaning attempts to dissuade her from trying to induce a seizure as part of a performance pointed this up beautifully. Access All Areas: putting disability centre stage 2011-03-07T18:34:31Z

The darkness is virtually ignored by the ensemble dancers, who are bright and festive. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Opera singers, like ballet dancers and professional athletes, all face expiration dates. A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Despite affording glimpses of promising dancers like Colby Parsons, Brittany DeGrofft and Calvin Royal III, it seems stuck in the past. Dance Review: Ailey II, ABT II and Taylor 2 at Joyce?s 1.2.3. Festival 2010-04-18T21:55:00Z

"All dancers and other AGMA-represented employees must immediately remove their personal possessions from the Joffrey Tower," the letter instructed. Joffrey letter to dancers threatens to cut season 2011-07-05T07:00:00Z

“It is appalling how we disuse the body,” the postmodern choreographer and dancer Steve Paxton once said. How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The surprise performances saw the dancers diving and abseiling off structures including the Millennium Bridge, London Eye and City Hall. Seven days on stage: Sam West calls for lock-ins to save theatres 2012-07-20T12:43:46Z

Each of these ballets takes Ms. Farrell’s dancers somewhere new, but none are choreographically substantial. Dance Review: Casting Balanchine the Way the Master Did 2010-11-22T22:36:00Z

Both dancers nail their roles with polish and charisma, and the ballet’s highlights are their solos and interactions. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Finally Makes It Back to New York 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

"I mean, we've always had big shows or whatever," Shears says, perhaps noticing my confused expression, "but we've never had …" "It's never been about dancers or choreography," says Lynch. Scissor Sisters: 'Sexuality is a universal thing' 2010-06-17T20:30:00Z

Its dancers, representing 13 countries and speaking 20 languages and dialects, were selected for their diverse movement backgrounds: ballet, hip-hop, contemporary. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“We were all in tears, the therapists as well,” Cabuag said, and again, being a dancer helped. Ronald K. Brown Has a Mantra: ‘Absolute Victory Every Day’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

As the it opens, male dancers, following it, run into the wings. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Some posted videos of dancers performing or rehearsing in Doris Duke, calling it the Barn because of its rustic wood paneling. Jacob’s Pillow Theater, Site of Dance Festival, Is Destroyed in Fire 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The dancers were on stage warming up as the audience filled the Filene Center and spread out on the lawn. Pilobolus’s naked display of magic

Though Kobborg is a less flashy dancer than many of his fellow Romeos, he handled expertly the acting demands of the role, and the two together delivered a heartfelt performance. One more emotional farewell ends strong ABT season 2012-07-10T18:53:10Z

“I became a dancer,” she explains to the interviewer, “because my grade didn’t have a dancer.” Shirley Clarke and Elaine Dundy: The Escape Artists 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“It’s all about coordination between every part of the dancer.” Irina Kolpakova Trains Dancers at American Ballet Theater 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

To project the drama, the dancers need more time in its world of interrupted intimacies, but EunWon Lee brought a deeply moving sincerity to the central role of Caroline. Washington Ballet’s season finale: Space Age world premiere & earthy classics​ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“I feel I am giving things to younger dancers just because of her example.” Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

Hubbe imposed full daily classes, stressed pointe work for women dancers and whittled down the teaching staff to less than 10 to create consistency. Danish Ballet, revamped, takes fresh U.S. tour 2011-06-17T11:28:41Z

In “Swallowed,” the dancer Lily Baldwin directs Mr. Carbone’s dream as a “Rosemary’s Baby”-style horror movie, casting herself as a new mother for whom parenthood is a disembodying experience. Review: ‘collective:unconscious,’ the Stuff of Dreams Reinterpreted 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

His experience as a dancer and as a trainer is important. How an Elite Cross-Trainer Is Helping Ballet Dancers Stay Fit 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

It’s an opportunity missed, since Mr. Polunin is a fabulous dancer, with a steely technique and beautiful line. Dance Review: Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party 2011-03-01T22:56:51Z

“This was a first for me. It was really interesting... Seeing these dancers writhing like that as well, it made me want to join them,” Compaore said. Live music lifts spirits in Burkina Faso's coronavirus curfew 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

She was a dancer — I thought, she'll go on with a broken neck. Shirley MacLaine on life, showbiz and finding contentment 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

How will this “Dido” work with a female singer and dancer in both roles? The Hot List: Mark Morris’s ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ With Mostly Mozart 2012-06-21T21:32:03Z

He’s now in his mid-thirties, and one of the world’s finest male dancers, but hadn’t been invited to dance at the Colón until recently. Why Are There So Many Great Argentine Dancers? 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The new work brought together four dancers, two from each company, and onstage pianist Sylvia Jiang in an evolving exchange of musical and visual rhythms. In a Ballet Across America world premiere, even the piano dances 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

I know that a lot of artistic directors are hitting on young dancers. In ‘Flesh and Bone,’ Moira Walley-Beckett Leaps Darkly Into Ballet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The dancers assemble in lines and peel off. At Fall for Dance Festival, Ballet to Hip-Hop 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

All four dancers were in black clothes, including some sort of appalling headgear. Mark Morris’s Dark Spring 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Johns designed the costumes for Cunningham’s “RainForest” dance — Warhol wanted the dancers to be naked, Cunningham didn’t and Johns’s flesh-colored, all-over tights were the compromise. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

"A dancer must sacrifice a lot," she said before her performance, made up and sporting inch-long fake eyelashes. Peru ballet competition draws young devotees 2012-09-07T16:50:11Z

In both cases, viewers started at the room’s edges and slowly felt more confident to occupy the dancers’ space. As You Take in the Paintings at MoMA, Watch Out for the Piano 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

It’s sad to see the deadening effect of this production, with its many repetitions of steps, on good dancers. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Even with the recent resurgence of tap on Broadway and concert stages, the life of a tap dancer is a constant shuffle. For Dancers, the Not-So-Lazy Days of Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

This concert, geared to ages 3 to 10 and celebrating its first full-length album, “Anthems for Adventure,” will include aerialist dancers, guest musicians and a preshow by Mario the Magician. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 18-24 2013-01-17T23:15:26Z

Was it Mr. Jesurun’s idea to have the dancers move onstage alongside you? He Focuses the Eclecticism of La MaMa Moves! 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The lights are cruelly bright, there is no scenery and no wings for the dancers to disappear into or emerge from. Dance Review: Bare Bones, Fleshed Out With Music 2011-02-06T22:22:41Z

Stafford said he wasn’t worried about dancers regaining their athleticism and movement quality; he even thinks their technique will be better, a result of working more slowly and focusing on the basics. Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

We see Lazarus surrounded by enthusiastic crowds and borne aloft in a procession of masked dancers. How a Busker Became an International Advocate for People with Albinism 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Four popular dancers left recently, including Brooklyn Mack, an internationally known artist and audience favorite. Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt. What will turn it around? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure why the code was featured so prominently given that most of the obvious targets of unwelcome attention — models, dancers, cheerleaders — weren’t even in the ballroom. ‘A married man’s fantasy’: The unapologetically sexist, wildly successful Fight Night changes course 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The choreographer of this world premiere is a longtime Ailey dancer. Alvin Ailey Troupe Gives Rushing’s ‘Odetta’ Its Premiere 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Thomas Edison's first Kinetoscope films were pretty much recordings of novelty acts -- sword-swallowers, magicians, Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's touring variety show. Indie film discovers sci-fi spectacle 2011-08-02T21:01:00Z

Many pages are accompanied by a quote from the dancer in the photograph. Dancers suspended in time and space as you’ve never seen them before 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It was refreshing to see a media depiction of eating disorders that didn't center a white woman; this series focuses on the struggles of a male dancer. Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Then, as the dancers of American Ballet Theater were upstairs getting ready to perform “Don Quixote” on the Met’s stage, Titano bit hard into a leather bite piece attached to the harness. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Friday’s performance had people asking about such little-known corps dancers as Indiana Woodward and Aaron Sanz. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Rioult’s dancers had health insurance and full-time salaries, toured nationally and internationally, and had annual seasons in New York. The pandemic was the final blow for some dance companies. How do the survivors stay nimble? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The seven female dancers responded to the onslaught enigmatically with strangled bursts of resistance and quiet resilience. Dance Review: American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2012-09-07T22:30:01Z

Breslin nabbed an Oscar nomination at just 10 years of age for her assured performance in “Little Miss Sunshine,” and Prattes is a gifted dancer. Review | ABC’s ‘Dirty Dancing’ remake is just going through the motions 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Lopez is a spectacular dancer, and he's formidably matched by Jade Solomon Curtis as the ballerina who entrances him. Spectrum Dance Theater's 'Petruchska': a tough and lurid carnival 2012-04-05T19:28:06Z

For the dancers, used to the kinetic motion of Petronio’s productions, it means learning a new and unintuitive way of moving, following precise directions from dancers who knew Cunningham, who died in 2009. ‘If the Dancer Dances’ Review: An Inheritance in Motion 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Inside Nokia Theatre a set of impressively flexible female dancers contorted into a series of poses that made much of the staff present for Friday’s closed rehearsal blush — and applaud. BET Experience 2014: Awards show prep, Future get the party started 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Rekha, a fixture of New York City night life who will play behind a team of classical Indian dancers and host an after-party at the nearby Bell House. Pop & Rock Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

As technical director, he's responsible for everything we see on stage other than dancers and costumes. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z

They beat their drums in tune to dancers dressed in intricately beaded formal regalia. Lake Superior is Cold, Sparsely Settled and Known for Bad Weather. Perfect for Cruising, Some Say. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Merce would sometimes ask dancers to repeat whole phrases twenty times. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z

In turn, the young dancers acquire some experience of creative collaboration and performance in a professional setting. Dance Review: Young Dancers? Workshop of Bloomers and Balloons 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z

Its opening tableaux alone is worth the price of a ticket, with its white-clad dancers posed in vertiginous formation over ramps and staircases, bodies as luminous architecture. English National Ballet: Black and White ? review 2011-03-20T17:31:00Z

By now my room is filled with many, many dancers, present and past. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: On Day Eight, Just One More Time 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

The dancers jerk and move rapidly but without a sense of the purpose that a life lived well should have. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z

The dispute touches on issues of motherhood in the workplace that have persisted in the dance industry, where many women say they feel pressure to delay pregnancy to avoid disrupting relatively short careers as dancers. Paul Taylor Dance Company Is Accused of Gender Discrimination 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The rising high school sophomore and dancer is a congenital amputee; she was born without her left hand. In ‘Luca,’ a Character’s Disability Doesn’t Define Him 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

But you can find androgyny even in a regular solo dancer; the dancer just acts out both parts. Nrityagram: Under My Skin 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

The exhibition follows Matisse as he begins with small works of dancers twirling and leaping and figures in bright colors, using paper which was more expedient and less labor intensive than paint. MOMA hails Henri Matisse with 'Cut-Outs' exhibition 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Although an impassioned balletomane, Mr. Braunschweig seemed less enthusiastic about performances than about his ceaseless campaign to better the lot of aspiring dancers and retired dancers. Philippe Braunschweig, Prix de Lausanne Founder, Dies at 82 2010-04-07T02:44:00Z

Mr. Kobborg resigned Tuesday as its director and his fiancée, the dancer Ms. Cojocaru, said she would not dance under the current management. Romanian Ballet Company Loses Its Leading Lights 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The dancers, in that moment, look into the direction of the audience and give a purposeful nod — as if to say, yes, we know about the video. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The film, directed by Emílio Domingos, is competent and entirely conventional, following a few dancers through a season of competition. ‘Passinho Dance Off,’ in Film and in Person 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

SAT Parade, 9:45 a.m.; food trucks, entertainment including steel drums, lion dance, belly dancing, Irish dancers, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-08-08T15:21:18Z

Choolburra was a former dancer who turned his hand at being funny. Aboriginal humour: 'the flip side of tragedy is comedy' 2013-06-19T01:08:50Z

One day, she said, she hopes to become a professional dancer. In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

"Fit like an athlete, fit like a dancer, amazing imagination, spectacular dexterity in his movements and disciplining everyone around him." Scorsese and "Hugo" team up to celebrate movie making 2011-11-22T21:20:47Z

The newest dancers on occasion receive special opportunities, which perhaps speak to yet another lesson: one dancer’s injury is another’s gain. Feet Still, but Hearts Leaping 2010-08-31T18:39:00Z

He likes to use uneven numbers of dancers to create unpredictable combinations; solos emerge from quartets, duos combine to make quartets and sextets, then dissolve into a trio or quintet. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

As Roberts put it, he was aiming to take the audience, and the dancers, to a different and deeper place. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z