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

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

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China. By Brian ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jean-Paul Montanari’s career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France. By Roslyn ...

PhD (Dance) Candidate and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne Watching dance is watching an extraordinary and fleeting artistic creation that uses an instrument we all have: the human ...