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Special Focus

New summer dance program ‘nextSPACE’ one of a few recent developments for GroundWorks DanceTheater - 7/19/2020 by Steve Sucato, Jimmy Schlemmer
Amid uncertainty over the global pandemic and the ways forward for arts organizations, Cleveland’s GroundWorks DanceTheater is making the best of the uncertainty by doing what dance companies do best;... (more)
Fostering Creativity and Equality Through Dance - 6/18/2020 by Bonnie Rosenstock
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company in downtown Manhattan and Matthew Westerby’s uptown The Harlem Project have both created powerful forums for people of color to express themselves through the... (more)
Denishawn Dream Program Deferred but Hopefully, Not Deterred - 6/1/2020 by Bonnie Rosenstock
“Modern Dance 101,” an evening of works by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, the husband and wife team known as Denishawn, and the acknowledged architects of American Modern Dance,... (more)

Whim W’Him’s Mia Monteabaro (front) and dancers rehearse Olivier Wevers’s “The Way It Is”. Photo by Stefano Altamura.

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Performance Reviews

Seattle's Whim W’him's Virtual 11th Season Led Off With A Pair Of Brilliant Dance Films - 9/21/2020 by Steve Sucato
Seattle contemporary dance company Whim W’him entered its 11th season under the COVID-19 pandemic with the plan to move all their performance online. The experimental season featuring original dance films... (more)
Seattle Dance Collective’s Dance Film Series ‘Continuum: Bridging the Distance’ is Satisfying Viewing - 8/14/2020 by Steve Sucato
Seattle may have been ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., but it was also ground zero for one of the more ambitious dance projects to stem from... (more)
DANCECleveland’s Virtual Dance Festival a Soul-Nourishing Stand-In for Live Dance - 8/3/2020 by Steve Sucato
Another outcome of the global pandemic, DANCECleveland’s Dance On! Virtual Dance Festival 2020 that began Saturday, July 25 and ran for a week, replaced its planned annual in-person American Dance... (more)

ROOMS - Daydream, pictured Margherita Tisato, Sierra Powell, Ilana Ruth Cohen.

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Interviews and More

Dancing in a Time of Pandemic: Conversations with Samantha Geracht, David Parker and Kathryn Posin - 6/13/2020 by Bonnie Rosenstock - EXPLOREDANCE.COM FEATURES
These days, live dance performances can only be dreamed about. But that doesn’t prevent dancemakers from creating wherever and whenever possible, using whatever means available, especially new technologies. ExploreDance.com reached... (more)
ExploreDance.com's Mindy Aloff Remembers Barbara Milberg Fisher, Sally Banes and Russell Lee who the World Lost Recently - 6/18/2020 by Mindy Aloff - REFLECTIONS
Between mid-April and mid-June, America lost a group of individuals in the arts whom I happened to know—for two decades at least and nearly six decades at most. Below I... (more)
The Joyce Goes Digital: Interviews with Stephen Petronio and Irene Rodriguez - 5/6/2020 by Bonnie Rosenstock - INTERVIEWS
The Joyce Theater Foundation is responding to the Covid-19 shut down of all live entertainment venues with access to new programming for its Bring Dance Home collection of curated digital... (more)

Robert Abrams

DanceSpots

West Coast Swing at The Mercury Café in Denver, Colorado - 12/23/2015 by Robert Abrams
Outside the mercury was dropping, but inside The Mercury Café the dance was rising. With bright red and white Christmas lights framing the very fine and well loved wooden floor,... (more)
Seeking Friendship in the Front Range - Salsa in Boulder, Colorado - 11/12/2014 by Joanne Zimbler
Why is it that we never do all of the things that we tell ourselves we're going to do as soon as we get some free time or take a... (more)
Seeking Friendship in the Front Range - Hip Hop in Boulder, Colorado - 10/25/2014 by Joanne Zimbler
Growing up in a suburban middle class neighborhood in the 70's many little girls, myself included, eagerly obliged when our parents signed us up for dance classes, the ballet, tap,... (more)

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Previews

The Stages are set this Weekend for 'The City is Our Stage', a Live Performance Arts Tour of Cleveland - 8/10/2020 by Steve Sucato
The first large-scale citywide arts event since the global pandemic hit, The City is Our Stage on Saturday, August 15 from 1-6 p.m., is a tapas-crawl-style drive-to sampler of a... (more)
New Look Chamber Dance Project Takes to the Virtual Stage for its Annual Summer Season Production - 7/27/2020 by Steve Sucato
The familiar quote, “If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain,” takes on new meaning for Washington, DC-based Chamber Dance Project’s annual summer... (more)
Verb Ballets Wades into the Uncertain Waters of Performing under Pandemic - 6/21/2020 by Steve Sucato
Verb Ballets in-studio performance of The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project Return Celebration on March 13 was the last in-person performance I attended and one of the very last given in... (more)

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Press Releases

92Y Harkness Dance Center Announces HARKNESS PRESENTS FALL 2020 - 9/24/2020 by Steve Sucato
92Y Harkness Dance Center Announces
HARKNESS PRESENTS A SERIES OF ONLINE PERFORMANCES AND CONVERSATIONS
FALL 2020... (more)
Dancers Responding to AIDS 2020 Virtual Fire Island Dance Festival - 7/14/2020 by Steve Sucato
Watch an unforgettable evening of world-class dance with the Virtual Fire Island Dance Festival this Friday, July 17 at 7 pm Eastern. Register for the free... (more)

Seattle Dance Collective announces innovative new works project for free online broadcast July 2-30, 2020 - 7/1/2020 by Elizabeth Dougherty
Seattle Dance Collective (SDC), under the direction of Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal Dancers Noelani Pantastico and James Yoichi Moore, presents five new works - all conceived and produced under the... (more)

ONLINE REVIEW: Anna Sokolow’s 'Rooms' Resonates Amid Pandemic - 6/30/20 by Bonnie Rosenstock - PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Nai-Ni Chen Named "Distinguished Service to the Field" Award Winner, 2020 Association of Teaching Artists Awards - 6/29/20 by Michelle Tabnick - PRESS RELEASES

ONLINE REVIEW: Lost Martha Graham Solo Reimagined as Digital Collaborative Dance - 6/25/20 by Bonnie Rosenstock - PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

SATELLITE COLLECTIVE announces recipients of its 2020 SATELLITE FELLOWSHIPS - 6/22/20 by Michelle Tabnick - PRESS RELEASES

Grand Rapids Ballet’s 'Virtual Program II: An Evening with Penny Saunders' Shows the Beginnings of a Programming Way Forward - 6/15/20 by Steve Sucato - PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Dancing Earth’s BETWEEN UNDERGROUND & SKYWORLD: Luminous Hope for a World on Fire - 10/26/19 by Kathryn Machi - PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Verb Ballets' 'Fresh Inventions' Program Goes Virtual - 6/16/20 by Jen Garlando - PRESS RELEASES

Dance/NYC Announces Recipients of First Round Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund for Dance Making Organizations - 6/10/20 by Michelle Tabnick - PRESS RELEASES

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Dancing Wheels ZOOM into the classroom, bringing students with disabilities a new option to dance - 5/10/20 by Michelle Tabnick - PRESS RELEASES

Weekly Meditation Variation for Healing and Peace a Prelude to Annual 9/11 Table of Silence Project - 6/1/20 by Bonnie Rosenstock - SPECIAL FOCUS

New Bodiography Season and New Website Highlight Maria Caruso's Evolving Empire - 5/21/20 by Steve Sucato - PREVIEWS

NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY presents Alone but Not Alone in Quarantine - 5/11/20 by Michelle Tabnick - PRESS RELEASES