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 ...

Dance is a powerful art form that transcends mere movement. It is an expression without words that many utilize as a powerful stress reliever. Dance facilitates creative connections, grounds dancers ...

The dancers auditioned for the IU Contemporary Dance Theatre in the spring, and the “Faculty Dance: Body to Body” winter ...

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the world renown African-American modern and contemporary dance organization, has named Debbie Blunden-Diggs as its chief executive and artistic director.

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 ...

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) today announced a $50 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano in support of an expansion of contemporary dance at Lincoln Center. The gift ...

“Like a racehorse out of the gate” is how Brenda Way describes the members of her ODC/Dance company as they take the stage and perform. “Beautiful when running, and so exciting,” she elaborates. Local ...

“Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955” opens at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and dance performances by the Jose Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and ...

Be prepared for more Black history to be made during Black History Month as Dayton Contemporary Dance Company presents “In Modern Moves” Feb. 17-18 at the Victoria Theatre. In one of the biggest coups ...

Fourteen thousand classes offered, 2,000 students, 160 guest choreographers, 4,500 artistic epiphanies. That’s the short list of Ormao Dance Company’s legacy over the three decades of its existence.

Over the past three decades, Jan Johnson has helped build a robust dance community in Colorado Springs. The founder of Ormao Dance Company, a professional modern and contemporary dance troupe, was ...

Dancer, choreographer and dance educator Shirley Mordine has died. Her five-decade career in Chicago included founding the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and originating the college’s ...