modern-dance

Even as the Merce Cunningham Dance Company tours for the final time, it will achieve a first: From June 14 to 16, the modern-dance troupe will make its debut in Russia.

Cunningham Dance Company Headed to Russia Pia Catton 2011

The six-couple work, with two duos particularly prominent, is set to Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Trio No. 5, in which Mr. Morris finds inspiration aplenty for his inimitable reworking of Middle European folk dancing into full-bodied modern-dance theater.

Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet Robert Greskovic 2011

To be sure, Ms. Graham's name and renown as a modern-dance innovator during her long working life—she died at age 96 in 1991—were much invoked at Tuesday's gala opening, which brought the Martha Graham Dance Company's 85th anniversary celebrations to town.

A Cautionary Tale in Dance Robert Greskovic 2011

Every Saturday through Sept. 11, the Limón Dance Foundation is offering free modern-dance classes in Bryant Park from 11 a.m. to noon.

Do-It-Yourself Dance Pia Catton 2011

Now the company returns to the newly renovated hall for the first time since 2008, and as in the past it will present works by celebrated modern-dance choreographers like Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp.

Modern Times at City Center Pia Catton 2011

Since taking the reins in 1995, Sharon Gersten Luckman racked up a list of accomplishments that have made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater one of the city's most solid, well-managed modern-dance companies.

Ailey Company Director Ends 16-Year Tenure Pia Catton 2012

His dances, informed by both ballet and modern-dance training, have consistently shown a keen theatricality and physicality without relying on flashy virtuosity or histrionics.

High-Style Highlights Robert Greskovic 2010

Thirty-nine years ago, when the student body was all male, this company emerged from a modern-dance class taught by Alison Chase, and the Hopkins Center had been one of the reasons the young men who formed the Pilobolus Dance Theater chose to study here in the first place.

DANCE: Pilobolus Returns To Dartmouth The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done.

A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature Robert Greskovic 2011

Jones/Zane's choreographic modus operandi appear to be derived from Contact Improvisation, a 1970s way of presenting movement on the spot, additionally employing ballet or modern-dance classroom moves alongside frequent doses of arbitrary and everyday gesture.

'Movement-Based' Choreography Robert Greskovic 2011