A dance performance can tell a story such as Tchaikovsky's well-known Swan Lake. However, in abstract dance the choreographer does not use a story as a basis, but just the dancers' consecutive ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov plays celebrated dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in 'Letters to a Man,' an abstract dance-theater piece directed by Robert Wilson. By Frank Scheck Of all the reactions you could imagine to ...

Rachel Barker, an Master of Fine Arts dance student, spends her summers at home skiing, mountain biking and river running in the vast wilderness of Utah. “I love that physical thrill and rush of not ...

Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich reverts to pure, abstract dance in her new piece, “Dream Dances” — and that’s a big relief. In recent projects, including “Industrial Ballet” (billed as “‘Black Swan ...

As we took our seats on the evening of Feb. 7, Kara Golux was dancing around the FlynnSpace stage with low-key energy and a blank face that marks too many dancers who perform from the neck down. Her ...

As an extension of its mission to expose low-income youth to the vast array of possibilities in today’s art world, Santa Ana-based dance nonprofit organization The Wooden Floor has installed a ...

Merce Cunningham, who as a choreographer was one of modern dance's most important innovators, died Sunday at age 90. Cunningham was known for pushing dance's boundaries by introducing novel abstract ...

The Kaufman school invited dancer and teacher Silas Riener, a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, to stage the MinEvent as a tribute to his enduring influence. “I was fortunate enough ...