In the March 1950 issue of Dance Magazine, a profile of ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq opened the “Young Dancer” section.

The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble will perform “Lynchtown,” the 1936 masterwork by modern dance pioneer Charles Weidman, at the Paul Taylor Dance Studios this weekend—and nearly nine decades after its premiere, the historic work feels eerily relevant. “Lynchtown” is part of a Weidman trio titled Atavisms, in which the choreographer explores the effects of groupthink. But […]

The cover star for the February 1975 issue of Dance Magazine was Lawrence Rhodes, then 35 years old and a leading dancer with both Pennsylvania Ballet and Eliot Feld Ballet.

In the December 1994 issue of Dance Magazine, John Gruen wrote of an 18-year-old American Ballet Theatre soloist named Paloma Herrera, “Here was a prodigy at work.” He was referring to her performances of Balanchine’s demanding Theme and Variations that spring; to have been in the audience, he wrote, “was to be in the presence of a near miracle.”

The October 1974 issue marked Mikhail Baryshnikov’s first of over a dozen Dance Magazine cover appearances.

Today, the Joffrey Ballet is among the 10 largest and most financially robust companies in the U.S., and very much associated with its home city of Chicago. But many young dancers may not know much about its founder, Robert Joffrey, the company’s long tenure in New York City, or its important and influential role in dance history. […]

In the September 1969 issue of Dance Magazine, contributing editor Ann Barzel reviewed a two-hour television special focused on Jacob’s Pillow, part of National Educational Television’s “The Sounds of Summer” series.

The August 1984 issue of Dance Magazine included a profile, written by Linde Howe-Beck, of then–30-year-old modern dancemaker Margie Gillis, who had found an astonishing degree of international success as a solo performer.