Dance can have various benefits for older adults, including improved mental and physical health. It can also be an enjoyable way to help improve their social interactions. Dance can be a good way to ...

At Azara Ballet, dancers aren’t expected to make eye contact with directors and choreographers. If company members need an impromptu break from the harsh stage lights during rehearsal, they take one.

Performances in N.Y.C. Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools focusing on their well-being, both physical and ...

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While there’s no “one way” to become a professional ballerina, many performers who dance for a living follow a typical trajectory. Keep reading to learn the steps (you are a dancer, after all) to help ...

Dancing is fun — good for the body and soul — and shows courage? Studies show that physical exercise, like dancing, is beneficial as is the accompanying mental exertion for the brain, like learning ...

Learning from them, dancing with them and admiring their artistry — Dayton Dance Initiative provides education and inspiration as well as entertainment. “I strongly believe that what we practice in ...

Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

When Constance Devernay departed the Scottish Ballet in 2023 after performing for fifteen years, including seven as the company’s highest rank of Principal dancer, she didn’t leave the world of dance ...

In 2020, Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, artistic director of the “Men Who Dance” all-male dance festival and founder of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute, introduced the inaugural program as a bold ...