Some of the largest financial awards a dance artist can win are the ones you can’t even apply for. You’re simply told one day that you’ve won, say, up to $550,000, in the case of the Doris Duke Artist Award, or $800,000, in the case of the MacArthur “genius grant.” And those two grants are […]

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.

Dorfman spoke about the importance of listening and witnessing in the leadup to his company’s shows at Jacob’s Pillow.

While much of the dance world converges on summer festivals throughout July and August, there’s still noteworthy programming happening outside those hubs.

Summer dance festival season is heating up across the country—and the pond.

It’s impossible to chart the rise of hip hop without coming across Ana “Rokafella” Garcia and Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio.

Mentorship amongst choreographers is nothing new: Jose Limón had Doris Humphrey, and Alvin Ailey had Lester Horton. But in a career where there is often scarce training (most college programs still primarily train dancers, not choreographers, for instance) and that can be competitive and isolating, mentorship opportunities that are formalized rather than happenstance are becoming increasingly needed.

When deciding where to spend your summer, you may have one goal in mind: Which program is going to get me closest to the career path of my dreams? But the impact that summer study programs can have is wide-ranging—and sometimes surprising.