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Fort Worth’s annual Modern Dance Festival is a remarkable event, featuring choreographers, dancers and musicians out of the mainstream who come together to create one-of-a-kind performances. But ...
Jul. 22—TUPELO — Roxie Doniphan Thomas Clayton started taking dance lessons at a young age and realized early on that she wanted to be a ballerina. Until she got to Ole Miss and took a modern ...
ORANGEVALE (CBS13) — It was the indecency trial that set the tone and wrote the rules for exotic dance in America and it transpired in sleepy little Orangevale, California. It happened in the ...
Mordine & Company Dance Theater operated as a repertory company for 50 years — earning credit as the Midwest’s longest-running modern dance company. Mordine relocated to California in 2021.
Paul Taylor has been redefining American modern dance for more than 40 years. His groundbreaking pieces and experiments in form have inspired generations of artists and earned him national honors.
There may be no one in the arts with a harder job than that of a modern-dance choreographer. When a writer can’t figure out what to say next, she can turn off the computer and go take a nap. A ...
She wrote her autobiography, in French, in 1908. Ruth St. Denis With her husband, Ted Shawn, she created the Denishawn School of dance in 1915, which borrowed many exotic gestures from ethnic dances.
Students dance barefoot and learn traditional African dance steps accompanied by a live drummer on the bongos. After a 30-minute warm-up, they spend the next 40 minutes learning choreographed ...
Theater & Dance Ballet, modern dance separated by blurred line January 24, 2014 More than 11 years ago Summary By Rebecca Ritzel ...