56 stories by "Margaret Fuhrer"
Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.
Joe Lanteri, whose New York City Dance Alliance turns 30 this year, wants his dancers to have opportunities beyond competitions, including as college students.
A law in New York City, a major dance capital, that protects artists against weight and height discrimination aims to give everyone a fairer shot.
Hope Boykin radiated generosity and joy as a performer. As a choreographer and director, she is showing the struggle the audience couldn't see.
Some dancers have found a niche on TikTok and other platforms imitating video game characters " moving like a machine's idea of a human.
"Spreadsheets? That's just the choreography of numbers," says a participant in a program that envisions an array of approaches to administrative needs.
Gaby Diaz, a winner of "So You Think You Can Dance," has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance.
The group brings the inclusive spirit of viral dance challenges out into the fresh air with its joyfully queer "flash Bobs."
Dance on the app has become more niche and more professionalized, but in the larger world TikTok-style dance has gained a toehold.
Several nonprofit dance groups have embraced collective leadership. "Dancing together taught us more about leading together," said a co-director of Bridge Live Arts.
In the movie "M3GAN," a robot doll's sinister virtuosity plays on the mixture of amusement and deep unease that dancing robots often provoke.
"Spirited," a revisionist "Christmas Carol," leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha Nichols.
It's a season of renewal and abundance " and also farewells: Yvonne Rainer makes her last dance and Kevin McKenzie says goodbye to Ballet Theater.
For the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation.
Abdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance.
"Dancing With Myself," on NBC, shows the deep influence of the dance challenge on popular culture, even as its hold on TikTok has loosened.
TikTok choreography, dancing umpires, a ballet-trained first-base coach: This collegiate summer league team has amassed a following by leaning into entertainment.
Ashton Edwards, an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet's rigid gender roles.
"Why are we not working together to fix our problems?" Entertainment-industry choreographers are uniting to address long-simmering issues.
"Why are we not working together to fix our problems?" Entertainment-industry choreographers are uniting to address long-simmering issues.
"We brought music to the mountains": The rebel freestyle form born in the '70s had a brief Olympic moment. Now it's experiencing a renaissance online.
Elizabeth B. Yntema's Dance Data Project has been using a steady drumbeat of numbers to push the ballet world to action on gender equality.
The power of dance? It's literal at a Glasgow arts center that is installing a geothermal heating and cooling system that runs on heat from dancing bodies.
In a strategic feat of survival, the Lab, a Los Angeles dance studio stalwart, has transformed itself into a creative agency and "lifestyle brand."
Jack Ferver, the creator of a well-regarded body of dance-theater works, has also become a TikTok phenomenon because of a Starburst ad from 2007.
