To a ballet dancer the modern expressionist dance is a heinous horror; to the expressionist dancer the ballet is merely pretty movement to titillate the fancies of tired businessmen. The ...

Russian contemporary dance doesn't have it easy. Ever since its birth it's lived in the shadow of grand Russian ballet and has been forced to constantly prove its right to exist. Many people still ...

Another amazing sight was Cuyjet in “For All ... Antinozzi, who started out in ballet before making her way to contemporary dance, digs into George Balanchine’s “La Sonnambula,” a haunting ...

As in Germany, changing sociopolitical contexts impacted American modern dance. American modern dance emerged in tandem with German modern dance in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Not ...

Expressive dance remains the only modern art form that is not denounced as degenerate under Nazism. 1967: Along with Rudolf von Laban, the most influential dancer and choreographer of the expressive ...